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'''Guido "Guy" Fawkes''' (April 13, 1570 - January 31, 1606) was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed [[Gunpowder Plot]] of 1605. | '''Guido "Guy" Fawkes''' (April 13, 1570 - January 31, 1606) was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed [[Gunpowder Plot]] of 1605. | ||
Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met [[Thomas Wintour]], with whom he returned to England. | Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met [[Robert and Thomas Wintour|Thomas Wintour]], with whom he returned to England. | ||
Wintour introduced Fawkes to [[Robert Catesby]], who planned to assassinate King James I, his family and his entire parliament, then restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and [[Torture|tortured]], and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation that followed. | Wintour introduced Fawkes to [[Robert Catesby]], who planned to assassinate King James I, his family and his entire parliament, then restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and [[Torture|tortured]], and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation that followed. | ||
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