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Guy Fawkes
Life, Family and
Other Conspirators
Guy Fawkes
- Born:
1570 at York, Yorkshire
- Baptized:
16th Apr 1570 at Saint Michael-le-Belfrey, York, Yorkshire
- Died:
31st Jan 1606 at Old Palace Yard, Westminster
- Schooled:
Saint Peter's in York England
- 14
October 1591 Fawkes leased from Christopher Lomley of Yorke,
tailor, "three and a half acres in Clifton, with one
other acre there, and a barn and garth attached to
Gilligaite" for twenty one years
- Fawkes
left England in 1593 or 1594 for Flanders. He enlisted in
the Spanish army under the Archduke Albert of Austria.
Fawkes held a post of command when the Spaniards took Calais
in 1596 under the orders of King Philip II of Spain
- November
5, 1605, Fawkes was arrested in the cellars of Parliament
House. He first gave his name as John Johnson. It is after
this the plot unfolds to one of the greatest catholic
anarcho-synidicates of the last millennium.
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Guy
Fawkes Family
- Father:
Edward FAWKES Born: about 1533 Died:1578 or 1579 Buried: 17th Jan
1579 at York Minster, York, Yorkshire
- Mother:
Edith FAWKES (maiden name BLAKE or JACKSON) Married in York in 1566
to Edward
- Sister:
Anne born 3 October 1568, berfore Guy was born, lived a mere seven
weeks, buried on 14 November 1568
- Sister:
Anne FAWKES Born: 1572 Baptized:12th Oct 1572 at Saint
Michael-le-Belfry, York, Yorkshire
- Sister:
Elizabeth FAWKES Born:1575 Baptized:27th May 1575 at Saint
Michael-le-Belfry, York, Yorkshire
Five
core members of the gunpowder plot:
- Guy
Fawkes, born in 1570, in York England, died 1606.
- Arrested
in Palace of Westminster on 4th November 1605.
- Robert
Catesby: Born: 1573 Died: 8 November 1605, Holbeache House,
Staffordshire. Mover of the scheme.
- Thomas
Wintour Born: 1571 Died: 31 January 1606, Old Palace Yard,
Westminster
- Thomas
Percy: Born: 1563 Died: 8 November 1605, Holbeche House. Catholic
convert.
- John
(Jack) Wright Born: 13 January 1568, Welwick, Yorkshire Died: 8
November 1605, Holbeche House, Staffordshire
Other
conspirators in the gunpowder plot:
- Kit
Wright: brother of John and schooled with Guy Fawkes, cousin of
Francis Tresham.
- Francis
Tresham: tryed to get the other to postpone the plot.
- Robert
and Thomas Wintour: brothers.
- Thomas
Bates: servant of Catesby.
- Robert
Keyes: Who took charge of gunpowder at Lambeth.
- Sir
Everard Digby: Resided in Coughton Court; he sent the horses for the
plotters.
- Hugh
Owen: Introduced Fawkes to Catesby.
- Ambrose
Rookwood: A late arrival. He was young and educated abroad.
- John
Grant
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