Amazing that Fotheringhay was such an important place in our history yet nothing remains! Such a shame but at least the church was still standing majestically nearby. Great video as always.
Thank you for posting. I visited this place last summer. It is a beautiful part of Northamptonshire I was intrigued to know where the maisonary and stones went and found some of the answers in the nearby town of Oundle. Apparently the Talbot hotel is made from the stones that we"spirited" away from Fotheringhay as well as many of the surrounding cottages and barns. This was over a long period of disuse. It's rumoured that the ghost of Mary appears in the corridors of the Talbot on the anniversary of her death. The mound was the site of the battlement and tower where in the event of a seige they would take refuge. A well would have been sunk and fed by the river thus affording a long period of refuge. The whole area is steeped in history. Just up the road is Rockingham Castle which is preserved and still lived in. Charles Dickens is alleged to have stayed in Rockingham and was inspired to have penned the book (or series of episodes) called Bleak house.
I enjoyed this very much, thank you. It was well presented, you have a nice clear voice. Do you have more plans to cover more places in Northamptonshire?
This very interesting well done. However the description of the execution at the time of death is a little inaccurate. Her execution was actually a disgracefully botched affair. The first blow partially entered the top of her neck the second blow severed about three quarters through but sadly and gruesomely it was finished off with a sawing motion of the axe. She had options and good ones but she chose to conduct herself with mindnumbing and amateurish statesmanship.
Over the years I've read a great deal about historical events in which Fotheringhay Castle figured prominently. And unlike other historically significant buildings that are no longer there, I have never encountered a single sketch, drawing or anyting of Fotheringhay. Very frustrating.
I enjoyed your vide. What a great perspective of the great Fotheringhay that once was. I read once that during the Dissolution of the Monasteries the tombs monuments at the altar in the church were destroy. Later, Queen Elizabeth I, replaced the originals that were destroyed with chalk monuments.
Interesting. It would be helpful to start at the entrance and work one's way into the castle, for the video viewer's perspective. Also, how did the river relate to the castle? Was it the way to get there? Was it just one way, there being a road alternative?
I’m from/live in Northamptonshire. Never been there though! I’ve got to go sometime. I’m wheelchair bound, is it wheelchair friendly? I wrote that at the beginning. I guess not looking at it! Lol. I didn’t know Richard the 3rd was born here. So thanks for telling me.
The Tudor Travel Guide Thank you! I’d love to look at the church. Where in Northamptonshire is it? Anytime. I love your videos. Really detailed but don’t feel like it’s boring, as some really detailed videos are. Keep up the good work xx
The Tudor Travel Guide Oh thank you for letting me know. Yea I’m in Northampton itself. So not too far. I remember first learning there was once a castle near here I was shocked lol. Let alone learning it was such a historic place and such a huge thing from history happened there. Learning Mary Queen of Scots was executed there was both crazy (where I live nothing much happens, so to learn that something so big happened near here surprised me lol) and heartbreaking to me. I don’t get why her son didn’t try to rescue her once he was king and didn’t have a regent. Was he scared she’d want the throne back? Did his advisers make him hate her? Or did he not want to go against Elizabeth in case she didn’t make him her successor to the English throne? Does historians know why he didn’t? Or not? Sorry for the 50 questions lol.
@@JMWxx I don't think anyone knows for sure the answers to your questions. Based on lots of reading over decades, I'd say yes, some of all of those. As much as we can know, Mary definitely would have expected to go back on the throne. Scotland didn't have the money and number of soldiers England did, and most of all perhaps, the majority of people didn't care enough to go to war for her. She hadn't done that well by them, and they mostly just wanted peace and order. Every tumultuous period needs a period of calm afterwards. All of Mary's life until James's majority had been, at the least, less settled than desirable. He wanted to settle in, and the Scots wanted him to settle in, so they all could settle down.
Lynx South Thank you sooo much! That makes sense. She gave birth to him. But never was their to raise him. I bet his mind was poisoned against her too, by the people that raised him. I guess he was told he could be King of both Scotland AND England if he cosied up to Queen Elizabeth (the first) of England. So he could unite the Country too. Because I think Elizabeth was Queen of Wales too wasn’t she? So I can definitely see WHY he never ran to her rescue.
@@JMWxx You're welcome. Yes, Wales was already under the English crown by this time. His mind was definitely poisoned against her, but she doesn't seem to have been particularly maternal. She wrote letters to him, but apparently not that many, which is not easy to understand. I imagine that he grew up rather embarrassed of her: she not only refused to convert to Protestantism, but she had been forced to abdicate as soon as it looked as though infant James would survive. She'd been under (house) arrest already in Scotland, and had taken it upon herself to escape to England. A complex topic. Scotland was hard on queens, but she was her own enemy (I won't say 'own worst enemy', as no one should have John Knox set against them).
