How Did Guy Fawkes Build A Gunpowder Plot
Background
A cause of the gunpowder plot was the religious tension in England during the early 17th century which stemmed from earlier generations.
It started with the English Reformation in the 16th Century when King Henry VIII wished to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and under the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope, it was not allowed. So, Henry set out to set up his own church, the Church of England. Parliament which passed the Act of Supremacy in 1534 that named him “Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England” which gave him the power to “have authority to reform and redress all errors, heresies and abuses in the same” . This meant that papal authority was abolished in England and England a protestant nation. Strong Catholics …show more content…
Catesby was joined by Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Christopher and John Wright, Francis Tresham, Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood, Thomas Bates, Robert Keyes, Hugh Owen, John Grant and the most notorious Guido ‘Guy’ Fawkes.
Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York and at an early age his father died and his widowed mother married a Catholic, Dionis Baynbrigge and it is believe that these were significant influences to his later opinions and associations with the Gunpowder plot. He later joined the Catholic Spanish army to fight against the Dutch and his military career was successful and in 1603 he lobbied Philip II of Spain to support the Catholic rebellion that was gaining momentum in England against James I. Philip however refused his proposition which only encouraged Guido to take matters into his own hands.
The commonly accepted version of the plot is that these men meet for the first time on 20 May 1604 conspired to blow up the House of Lords to kill the James I and his two sons. Following this they would kidnap his daughter, who was third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth and make her their puppet so that once again they would have a Catholic
A cause of the gunpowder plot was the religious tension in England during the early 17th century which stemmed from earlier generations.
It started with the English Reformation in the 16th Century when King Henry VIII wished to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and under the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope, it was not allowed. So, Henry set out to set up his own church, the Church of England. Parliament which passed the Act of Supremacy in 1534 that named him “Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England” which gave him the power to “have authority to reform and redress all errors, heresies and abuses in the same” . This meant that papal authority was abolished in England and England a protestant nation. Strong Catholics …show more content…
Catesby was joined by Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Christopher and John Wright, Francis Tresham, Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood, Thomas Bates, Robert Keyes, Hugh Owen, John Grant and the most notorious Guido ‘Guy’ Fawkes.
Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York and at an early age his father died and his widowed mother married a Catholic, Dionis Baynbrigge and it is believe that these were significant influences to his later opinions and associations with the Gunpowder plot. He later joined the Catholic Spanish army to fight against the Dutch and his military career was successful and in 1603 he lobbied Philip II of Spain to support the Catholic rebellion that was gaining momentum in England against James I. Philip however refused his proposition which only encouraged Guido to take matters into his own hands.
The commonly accepted version of the plot is that these men meet for the first time on 20 May 1604 conspired to blow up the House of Lords to kill the James I and his two sons. Following this they would kidnap his daughter, who was third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth and make her their puppet so that once again they would have a Catholic