Fotheringay, a parish and village of Northamptonshire, England, on the river Nene, 27 m. N. E. of Northampton. Its famous castle., the birthplace of Richard III., and the scene of the imprisonment, trial, and execution of Mary, queen of Scots, was founded in the reign of the Conqueror, and pulled down by James I., soon after his accession to the English throne. The village contains a handsome church, in which were buried Edward and Richard, dukes of York, the former slain at Agincourt and the latter at Wakefield.