Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes

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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 grandparents were 'recusant' Catholics, who refused to attend Protestant services. When Guy was eight, his father died and his widowed mother married a Catholic, Dionis Baynbrigge. It was these early influences that were to forge Fawkes' convictions as an adult.Guy Fawkes and a bunch of plotters tried to blow up the House of Parliament with barrels of gunpowder in the basement. On the 5th of November 1605 to kill King James.Just when he was about to be executed on 31st January 1606 he jumped from the ladder and broke his neck, dying instantly.

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