Person:Guy Fawkes (1)

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Guy Fawkes
b.Abt 13 Apr 1570 York, Yorkshire, England
d.13 Jan 1606 Westminster, Middlesex, England
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  1. Anne Fawkes1568 - Abt 1568
  2. Guy FawkesAbt 1570 - 1606
  3. Anne Fawkes1572 -
  4. Elizabeth Fawkes1575 -
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Name[1][3] Guy Fawkes
Alt Name[1][3] Guido Fawkes
Alt Name[1] John Johnson
Alt Name[2] Guy Faux
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 13 Apr 1570 York, Yorkshire, EnglandStonegate ( a street in modern York)
Christening? 16 Apr 1570 York, Yorkshire, Englandat St. Michael le Belfrey
Death[1][2][3] 13 Jan 1606 Westminster, Middlesex, EnglandOld Palace Yard
Burial[1] His body parts were...distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors.
Reference Number? Q13898?


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Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who was involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the Eighty Years' War against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Low Countries. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England without success. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England. Wintour introduced him to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords; Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder that they stockpiled there. The authorities were prompted by an anonymous letter to search Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and they found Fawkes guarding the explosives. He was questioned and tortured over the next few days and confessed to wanting to blow up the House of Lords.

Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of being hanged, drawn and quartered. He became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in the UK as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks.

For more information on his life and the Gunpowder Plot, see the following related websites:

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Guy Fawkes, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Herber, David. Guy Fawkes: A Biography. (britannia.com , 2007)
    2007.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fawkes, Guy , in Stephen, Leslie, ed, and Sidney, ed Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. (London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900).
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