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The Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay is a parish church in the Church of England in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire. It is noted for containing a mausoleum to leading members of the Yorkist dynasty of the Wars of the Roses.
In 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at nearby Fotheringhay Castle. The Castle is now little more than a high earthen mound, possibly the result of slighting by order of Mary's son James when he took the throne as James I of England. The parish church has changed little externally since her death.
- Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
- Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
- Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
- Edmund, Earl of Rutland
- Fotheringhay Castle
The eldest son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, (the 4th son of Edward III) and his first wife, Isabella of Castile, the second daughter of Peter the Cruel of Castille and his favourite mistress, Maria de Padilla. Edward of York was married twice, firstly to Beatrice of Portugal and later to Philippa de Mohun. He commanded the right-wing at ...
The son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Anne Mortimer, and nephew of Edward, 2nd Duke of York. Laid formal claim to the throne in the reign of Henry VI, which led to the civil war later known as 'the Wars of the Roses. The Duke of York was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 and was buried at Pontefract, his head was put on a pike by the v...
Wife of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and the mother of Edward IV and Richard III. Cecily Neville was the daughter of Ralph, the 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland. Her maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, the 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford. She survived her husband and sons to die in 14...
The second surviving son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville, Edmund of Rutland was killed at the age of seventeen in the aftermath of the Battle of Wakefield in 1460. He had fought in the battle at the side of his father, on realising the battle was lost, he fled the field and was captured and stabbed by the Lancastrian Lord Clifford. In 1...
The nearby mound of Fotheringhay Castle, to the east of the village of Fotheringhay next to the river, was once an imposing Norman stone motte and bailey fortress, the castle was the birthplace of Richard III in 1452 and also withessed the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587. Mary's son, James I, on ascending the English throne, ord...
The two sixteenth-century tombs in Fotheringhay church commemorate fi fteenth-century members of the Yorkist dynasty whose roles as ancestors of the Tudor monarchy required that new monuments be set up to replace their damaged originals.
These tombs were raised by Elizabeth to replace the original monuments that had stood by the high altar to the founders of this church before being desecrated by the Duke of Northumberland. Elements of the original brasses and slabs can be seen at their bases.
In this lovely stone village with its magnificent perpendicular church across green fields and the River Nene, the Dukes of York made their home; Richard III was born; Richard and Cecily buried – and one hundred years later, Mary Queen of Scots tried and executed.
The two sixteenth-century tombs in Fotheringhay church commemorate fifteenth-century members of the Yorkist dynasty whose roles as ancestors of the Tudor monarchy required that new monuments be set up to replace their damaged originals.
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