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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
Guy Fawkes (/ f ɔː k s /; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), [a] also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Pages in category "People associated with the Gunpowder Plot" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
John Grant (c. 1570 – 30 January 1606) was a member of the failed Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I of England with a Catholic monarch. . Grant was born around 1570, and lived at Norbrook in Warwick
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Francis Tresham, later a Gunpowder Plot conspirator, was involved in the controversy at Brigstock. [3] Henry Mordaunt entertained King James and Anne of Denmark at his house at Drayton, Northamptonshire, with musicians and singers in August 1605. [4] The queen's secretary, William Fowler, was also present. [5]
After Fawkes was captured, he did give the names of Catesby and others involved, she added. Series two of Lucy Worsley Investigates is broadcast on BBC Two on Fridays at 21:00 GMT. You can also ...
The brothers were pupils at St Peter's School in York, along with Guy Fawkes, whose name has become synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot. [4] Although outwardly conformist, the school's headmaster John Pulleine came from a notable family of Yorkshire recusants , and his predecessor at St Peter's had spent 20 years in prison for his recusancy.