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Fawkes was a devout English Catholic who had travelled to the continent to fight for Spain in the Dutch War of Independence. Montague told him that he was visiting a relative, and that he would be at Parliament in a few weeks time. ], [S1281] Dr. Andrew Gray, "re: Sir Robert George Maxwell Throckmorton, 11th Bt.," e-mail message to Darryl Lundy, 28 February 2005.

Although gunpowder does not explode (unless physically contained), a spark from the fire landed on the powder and the resultant flames engulfed Catesby, Rookwood, Grant, and another man.

He died on 8 November with it in his arms, utterly devoted to his faith to the bitter end. On the orders of the Earl of Northampton however, the bodies of Catesby and Percy were exhumed[68] and decapitated.

of Robert Throckmorton ofCoughton, his elder brother Williamhaving died in infancy. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, Nov 8 1605 - Holbeach House, Staffordshire, William Catesby, Anne 1 Throckmorton (Catesby)(Sheldon), Anne Catesby, Elizabeth Catesby (Wintour), Nov 8 1605 - Staffordshire, United Kingdom, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Catesby, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catesby,_Robert_(DNB00). [2] Caraman, Philip, Henry Garnet 1555-1605 WebAmbrose Rookwood was born in 1578, son of Robert Rookwood, the builder of the grand ancestral seat.

Wintour was not impressed by his interview with the Constable, and also having been discouraged by his discussions there with Hugh Owen and William Stanley, unofficial heads of the English catholics in exile, who told him that Spain was too financially strapped and too eager to conclude a peace to be of any assistance. Harington is a direct descendant of Robert Catesby.

WebCatesby is going to need a cunning plan to kill the king. [4] The head of the Throckmortons, Sir Thomas Throckmorton, was also fined for his recusancy, and spent years in prison. Rookwood had many roles in the 5 November plan including setting up a route of relay horses for the plotters getaway. [65], Back in London, under pain of torture Fawkes had started to reveal what he knew, and on 7 November the government named Catesby as a wanted man. He seemed to have much more success in converting protestants than many of the priests now to be found in England.

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https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio50stepgoog#page/n296/mode https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio50stepgoog#page/n299/mode http://www.thepeerage.com/p14662.htm#i146614, http://www.thepeerage.com/p66342.htm#i663417, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43688666, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CATESBY.htm#Robert, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/RobertCatesby.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Catesby, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catesby,_William_(DNB00). Catesby and Percy were reportedly both dropped by a single lucky shot, while standing near the door. It was at this meeting that Catesby unveiled his plan to use copious amounts of gunpowder to blow up the Palace of Westminster. Kit Harington as Robert Catesby | Photo: BBC/Kudos/Robert Viglaski, It's been a family curiosity for as long as I can remember, Tom Cullen as Guy Fawkes and Kit Harington as Robert Catesby | Photo: BBC / Kudos, I think he almost had a death wish to go to heaven to be with his wife again, Robert Catesby circa 1600 | Photo: Hulton Archive / Stringer, One of the violent "very historically accurate" scenes in Gunpowder | Photo: BBC / Kudos. See link for full details for this source.

Remaining were Catesby (described as "reasonably well"), Rookwood, the Wright brothers, Percy and John Grant, who had been so badly injured that his eyes were "burnt out". WebRobert Catesby, (born 1573, Lapworth, Warwickshire, Eng.died Nov. 8, 1605, Holbeche House, Staffordshire), chief instigator of the Gunpowder Plot, a Roman Catholic conspiracy to blow up King James I and the English Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605.

In 1581, when Robert was only eight years old, he saw his father arrested for the first time and tried in Star Chamber, along with William, Lord Vaux and his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Tresham [5], for the harbouring of Father Edmund Campion, and spent most of the rest of his life in and out of prison for various offences connected with his recusancy [2].

His marriage to Catherine Leigh in 1593 was a significant departure from Catesbys vehemently Catholic stance.

Catesby replied, "Whatever I mean to do, if the Pope knew, he would not hinder for the general good of our country." The son of Sir William Catesby of Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire (died 1478) and Philippa, daughter and heiress of Sir William Bishopston, he was trained for the law in the Inner Temple. By Catherine he had two sons, William, who died in infancy, and Robert [1]. Robert Catesby: Birthdate: November 11, 1595: Birthplace: Chastleton, Oxfordshire, England: Death: 1651 (55-56) Yaverland, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom Immediate Family: Son of Robert Catesby and Catherine Catesby Husband of Martha Ursula Catesby Father of Margaret James Brother of William Catesby. Presumably to avoid this consequence, he left without taking his degree, and may then have attended the seminary college of Douai. In the chaos which would inevitably follow, Catesby hoped that the oppressed Catholic nobility would stage an uprising and seize the reigns of power from the Protestant establishment.

"[24] Author Mark Nicholls suggests that "bitterness at the failure of Essex's design nevertheless seems to have sharpened an already well-honed neurosis. When James I of England succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, Catholics were hopeful that the new king would be more sympathetic to their plight. ", "They thought they were revolutionaries. [citation needed], William Catesby was one of the two councillors (the other was Richard Ratcliffe) who are reputed to have told the king that marrying Elizabeth of York would cause rebellions in the north. Managed by: Simon Leech Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. She brought a considerable dowry of 2000 pounds per year [7] and connected him with the fast-rising family of the Spencers.

", (The dog here refers to a Lovell family heraldic symbol. WebRobert Catesby, (born 1573, Lapworth, Warwickshire, Eng.died Nov. 8, 1605, Holbeche House, Staffordshire), chief instigator of the Gunpowder Plot, a Roman Catholic conspiracy to blow up King James I and the English Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605.

Catesby gave Bates a letter to deliver to Father Garnet and the other priests at Coughton Court, informing them of what had transpired, and asking for their help in raising an army in Wales, where Catholic support was believed to be strong. From the death of his grandmother the following year he inherited a property at Chastleton, in Oxfordshire. Following the Earl of Essex's failed rebellion, he had travelled to Spain to raise support for English Catholics, a mission which the authorities would later describe as comprising part of a 'Spanish Treason'. Catesby had initially held hope of improvement under James I, due to the promises earlier made by James to Thomas Percy of such, James support of the Earl of Essex against Cecil, and the subsequent favour shown to both Essexs supporters and prominent Catholics at the beginning of the reign.

[nb 5] Catesby funded the activities of some Jesuit priests,[18] and while visiting them made occasional use of the alias Mr Roberts. Generous and affable, he was for that reason much loved by everyone. Robert Catesby, a 33-year-old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and and kill the king. In order to pay this fine, he sold his manor at Chastleton, but was still left with a considerable income from his other estates, enough to continue to fund the Jesuits, and later the majority of the costs of the Plot [14]. This was a response that in Nicholls's opinion came as no surprise to Catesby, who wanted and expected nothing less. The party reached Holbeche House, on the border of Staffordshire, at about 10:00 pm.

Harington spoke to Front Row about a part of his family's history that helped inspire his latest drama. For whatever can be said and argued about Robert Catesby, given his willingness to risk all, at least his absolute sincerity, dedication and firm belief that what he was doing was right cannot be questioned. Born in Warwickshire in 1572, Catesby came from a well-off devout Roman Catholic family and was well educated.

As plots go, and there were many at this time, it came very close to being realised.

[55], The recruitment of Rookwood, Tresham and Digby coincided with a series of meetings in various taverns across London, during which the last remaining details were worked out. Described latterly as a charismatic and influential man, as well as a religious zealot, over the following months he helped bring a further eight conspirators into the plot, whose naissance was planned for 5 November 1605. [19] Much of James's political writing was concerned with such matters, and the "refutation of the [Catholic] argument that 'faith did not need to be kept with heretics'". And I dont think he was a particularly good man for those reasons he took innocent people along with him to their deaths.

Digby left, ostensibly to give himself up, as did John Wintour.

In the presence of priests, however, he used so much reticence that he would never allow himself to discuss matters of religion unless they urged him to it.

He was only an esquire of the royal body.

I never wanted to think of these men as terrorists. Born in 1573 to a wealthy Catholic landowning family from Warwickshire, Robert Catesby (also known as Robin) was the only surviving son of Sir William Catesby and Anne Throckmorton.

As Fawkes made a final check on the gunpowder, other conspirators took up their positions in the Midlands. The Earl of Essex's purpose might have lain in furthering his own interests rather than those of the Catholic Church, but Catesby hoped that if Essex succeeded, there might once more be a Catholic monarch.

John Wright was shot, followed by his brother, and then Rookwood. If you were indeed referring to the Gunpowder Robert Catesby, then this information would not be for his son as he died in 1605 and could not have had a child born 22/23 years after his death. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons during Richard's reign. They know the rhyme remember, remember the 5th November but thats pretty much all they know..

Much has been made of this marriage by writers to claim that Robert Catesby fell away from the church in his youth (and indeed his son Robert was baptised in the Anglican church at Chastleton in November 1595), and that he returned to the church in grief at his fathers and wifes death in 1598, following shortly on the death of his eldest son. [35][36] Alone in a private room, all swore an oath of secrecy on a prayer book, and then in another room celebrated Mass with the Jesuit priest (and friend to Catesby) John Gerard. When Rookwood caught them up and broke to them the news of Fawkes's arrest, the group, which now included Rookwood, Catesby, Bates, the Wright brothers and Percy, rode toward Dunchurch.

Catesby apparently fought valiantly in spite of an injury.

Thomas Wintour returned with Guy Fawkes to Catesby in Lambeth to tell him the disappointing news. With a much-diminished group of followers, Catesby made a stand at Holbeche House in Staffordshire, against a 200-strong company of armed men. George RR Martin's fantasy opus Game of Thrones is famously inspired by a particularly bloody chapter in British history, the War of the Roses. Sir Thomas Tresham helped pay some of Catesby's fine,[12] following which Catesby sold his estate at Chastleton. [50] Catesby had borne much of the scheme's financial cost thus far, and was running out of money.

He had an ancient and illustrious lineage, including being sixth in descent from William Catesby, the influential councilor of Richard III, immortalised not only by Shakespeare, but as the cat in the famous satirical rhyme of Colyngbourne: The Cat, the Rat and Lovel our Dog, His father died in 1470, but nothing seems to be known of Catesby till after the death of Edward IV, twelve or thirteen years later. His given name is Christopher Catesby Harington. Just before his execution he made his will, dated 25 Aug. 1 Henry VII, leaving its fulfilment entirely to his wife, to whom, as he says in the document, I have ever been true of my body. Evidently this instrument of tyranny had some virtue in him, of a kind not too common among courtiers.

[61] On 3 November, Catesby met with Wintour and Percy in London. They resolved to stay in the house and wait for the arrival of the king's men.

He conceived the plot and became its inspirational leader, recruiting 12 more members. When this hope proved to be futile, Robert Catesby decided it was time for action. kades.

Indeed his zeal was so great that in his own opinion he was wasting his time when he was not doing something to bring about the conversion of the country. Robert Catesby was the third and only surviving son of Sir William and Anne (ne Throckmorton) Catesby, and was probably born in or after 1572 at his father's main residence in Lapworth. He was to inform the Constable of the condition of the catholics here in England, entreating him to solicit his Majesty at his coming hither that the penal laws may be recalled, and we admitted into the ranks of his other subjects.

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To counteract the support of Cecil, he actively drew catholics and puritans alike to his cause with the promise of religious toleration if he was returned to favour and Cecil removed from the council.

Percy listened while Catesby added "I am thinking of a most sure way and I will soon let thee know what it is."

Together the two confronted the recently recruited conspirator, and threatened to "hang him", but Tresham managed to convince the pair that he had not written the letter, and the next day urged them to abandon the plot. [28][40][41][42], Although the state opening of Parliament was planned for February 1605, concern over the plague meant that it would instead occur on 3 October.

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