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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes was a member of a group of English Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and fought for Catholic Spain against Dutch reformers. He later met with members of the plot like Thomas Wintour and Robert Catesby, who planned to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament. Fawkes was caught guarding the gunpowder stored beneath the House and tortured until he confessed. He broke his neck avoiding execution and became synonymous with the failed Gunpowder Plot.

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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes was a member of a group of English Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and fought for Catholic Spain against Dutch reformers. He later met with members of the plot like Thomas Wintour and Robert Catesby, who planned to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament. Fawkes was caught guarding the gunpowder stored beneath the House and tortured until he confessed. He broke his neck avoiding execution and became synonymous with the failed Gunpowder Plot.

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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes (/fɔːks/; 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 who planned the
failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York, England; 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, and Wintour introduced him to Robert Catesby, who
planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters
leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the
gunpowder which 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 he finally confessed.
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
Britain as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned on a
bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks.

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