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Simon de Senlis founded the castle in 1100 from his marriage to the Maud, the daughter of the Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria. Senlis died in 1113 and Maud was married off to Prince David of Scotland. David became King of Scotland and the estate and house was passed down through Scottish royalty until the 13th Century.
 
Richard of York who came the Duke of York inherited the Castle in 1415, and it became a beloved residence of his family, and the birthplace of Richard III of England in 1452. Fotheringhay also became the site of a treaty between Scottish prince Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and Edward IV of England to take the Scottish throne from his brother in 1469.
 
Most famously, Mary Queen of Scots spent her final days at the Castle, where she was beheaded in the castle in 1587.