Qualla: Fotheringhay https://qualla.com/fotheringhay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/fotheringhay-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fotheringhay https://qualla.com/fotheringhay Fotheringhay: Introduction https://qualla.com/fotheringhay/ Photo credit TopherMe7, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Richard III Society lays white roses on the altar of St Mary and All Saints every 2 October, his birthday. Otherwise Fotheringhay is a village of around a hundred and twenty people, a few stone houses, the Nene gliding by between water meadows, and a church tower that looks impossibly large for what is left around it. The historian John Nicholls put it best in 1821: 'Fotheringhay has been distinguished beyond any other place in Britain, except the Capital, by the aggravated misfortunes of Royalty.' The misfortunes are buried in the chancel. The village walks past them on the way to the pub.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/fotheringhay-wp/gcrd-fotheringhay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fotheringhay: Fodering Inclosure https://qualla.com/fotheringhay/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name is older than the castle. The first written mention is from 1060, six years before the Conquest, and the Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Fodringeia, which the antiquary John Leland later glossed as 'Fodering inclosure': the part of the forest set aside for hay. There...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/fotheringhay-wp/gcrd-fotheringhay-fodering-inclosure.mp3 0:06 2 full Fotheringhay: The Falcon and the Fetterlock https://qualla.com/fotheringhay/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. Edward III gave the manor to his fourth surviving son, Edmund of Langley, in the fourteenth century. Edmund's badge was a falcon enclosed by a fetterlock, the rolled iron shackle used to hobble a horse, which the heralds explained as a Yorkist claim to the throne not yet released...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/fotheringhay-wp/gcrd-fotheringhay-the-falcon-and-the-fetterlock.mp3 0:06 3 full Fotheringhay: The Octagonal Lantern https://qualla.com/fotheringhay/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. Edward III began the present church around 1411 as the parish nave of a collegiate foundation, and work on what we see today was finished about 1430; a wider parish church in matching Perpendicular style was added at the west end from 1434 onwards. The college and chancel were de...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/fotheringhay-wp/gcrd-fotheringhay-the-octagonal-lantern.mp3 0:06 4 full Fotheringhay: After the Royalty https://qualla.com/fotheringhay/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. The lordship of the village passed through many hands after the castle came down. From the Earl of Newport it went to the 1st Marquess of Halifax, then to his son, then to the Earl of Nottingham, then by sale to Hewer Edgeley Hewer, heir of William Hewer who had served as Samuel ...

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