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Nov 5, 2012 · On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of radical English Catholics tried to assassinate King James I by blowing up Parliament's House of Lords. The plot went awry and all of the...
Nov 3, 2018 · While not the ringleader himself, Fawkes became the best known member of the most famous conspiracy in English history. His capture has been illustrated in countless schoolbooks, novels, popular...
Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York, England. His parents were Protestants but during his childhood Guy converted to Catholicism. When he was 21 he left England to join the Catholic Spanish...
At the age of 21, the passionate young man set off to Europe to fight for Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Eight Years War. Image: © St Peter's Foundation. A handsome Guy. Fawkes had grown into a good looking man, tall and strong, with thick reddish-brown hair and beard, and an impressive moustache.
Guy Fawkes was one of a group of Catholic men plotting to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605. Their aim was to assassinate the Protestant King James I and his ministers, and install his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as a Catholic queen.
Nov 5, 2016 · On November 5, 1605, revolutionary Guy Fawkes was caught guarding a stash of gunpowder that was to be used to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Fawkes and his...
Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York. Although his immediate family were all Protestants, in keeping with the accepted religious practice in England at the time, his maternal...
