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Fotheringhay

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Fotheringhay (fŏth`ərĭng-gā), village, Northamptonshire, central England, on the Nene River. Fotheringhay Castle (12th cent.), now in ruins, was the birthplace of Richard III and the scene of the imprisonment and execution (1587) of Mary Queen of Scots.
Fotheringhay
a village in E England, in NE Northamptonshire: ruined castle, scene of the imprisonment and execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1587)


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Who was executed at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, in 1587?
The Catholic Queen was executed on February 8 1587, after great agonising by her Protestant cousin Elizabeth I, at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire, in one of the most dramatic episodes in British history.
 
 
 
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