Guy Fawkes

5th November 1605. An English nursery rhyme starts with "remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, fire and plot."

no he wasn't but we don't know if it is guy Fawkes who people put on the bonfire!

The Gunpowder Plot was intended to blow up the English "House of Lords" while the King was conducting the state opening. This would have killed or injured the King, most of his Ministers and the Members of both houses. This would effectively have destroyed the government of England, and left Scotland without a king and several important figures in attendance at the English Parliament.

The resulting chaos throughout Britain would have permitted a Catholic Rising to replace James with his Daughter and possibly reverse or alter the Reformation in favour of the Catholics. However the plot was not particularly well organised and probably wouldn't have got that far even if the gunpowder had gone off.

The gunpowder plot was discovered when a member of Guy Fawkes' gang wrote a letter to one of his friends that was going to be in parliament on the day of the plot, telling him to stay away from there and why. The friend showed the letter to parliament, and they then sent guards to search the houses. In one of the cellars they found Guy Fawkes, ready to light the fuse.

There was conflict between the catholics and the king.The Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament while the King was there holding an important meeting. They hired Guy Fawkes! Unfortunately one of the MP's had been warned about the explosion and he alerted everyone. Guards were sent to look for the gun powder and they found Guy Fawkes with it!!! He was tortured horribly until he confessed. People wonder who it was sho told the MP the plan!!

hope it helps...jessxxx

John Johnson

I don't know exactly when Guy Fawkes planned to destroy Parliament, but I do know it was during the "Stuart Era".

1605

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We will never know...

Well you have to consider all facts . Because James I was scottish and wanted people to like him so he could of set the whole thing up but as the person above said we will never know :)

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There are lots of reasons to believe that the gunpowder plot was set up and lots to believe it was a genuine plot. read the book 'the making of the UK 1500-1750' it has quite alot of information and sources on page 56-59.

Guy Fawkes was baptized an Anglican. He converted to the Holy Roman Church after Trent and served against Elizabeth I in the attempted coup in her later life. He became involved in Roman Catholic plots against James I and took part in what is known as the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. This was an attempt by Romanists to wipe out the English establishment including all but one of the Royal Family. The exception was the future 'Winter Queen,' Elizabeth of Bohemia! She was twelve years old and her fate was to be married to a future Roman Catholic contender for the throne after her Father and brother were wiped out by the plotters.

Interestingly, James was quite prepared to give toleration to Roman Catholics; after all, his mother was one. He considered himself to be a Catholic,, not a Roman, but he was a strong follower, or believer, in the Ecumenical Councils of the early church of the first thousand years and only opposed the post Trent Church. His wife, Anne of Denmark was one, so he was no enemy. All he asked was that they took an oath of loyalty to the Crown as everyone else did. The Romans were for the most part quite willing, but the pope denied them permission! Guy Fawkes was a Roman Catholic, a sightly different thing!

because he was in the army and had the the job to pack gunpowder so he had lots of experience in lighting and making gunpowder.

He was executed because he tried to blow up the parliament with a group.

The plan involved blowing up the Houses of Parliament on 5th November. This date was chosen because the king was due to open Parliament on that day.

At first the group tried to tunnel under Parliament but found out that they can rent a cellar under the houses of lords. But Guy Fawkes was caught when he was going to explode the gunpowder.

Guy Fawkes was found guilty of treason and executed along with Thomas Wintour, on 31st January, 1606.

The two men were both hanged, drawn and quartered

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in modern English his name is Guy Fawkes. In the 1590's his name has been recorded as Guye Faux and later as Guye Fawkes. It is also recorded as Guido Fawkes and this may be accepted as his real name

If you mean Guy Fawkes, he did not. But he got caught in the act of preparing to do so. His goal was to kill the members of Parliament, and destroy the government,

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Rahem Womack, North Pulaski High

No, he was caught out by one of the King's men hours before he was about to light the gunpowder. One of the plotters sent a letter to the King informing him of the plot. Guy Fawkes was then hanged, drawn and quartered

Born: 1570 in York. Yes, Guy Fawkes was a Yorkshireman.

Baptised: 16th April 1570 at Saint Michael-le-Belfrey, York.

Died: 31st Jan 1606 at Old Palace Yard, Westminster.

Schooled: Saint Peter's in York.

Fawkes left England in 1593 or 1594 for Flanders. He enlisted in the Spanish army under the Archduke Albert of Austria. Fawkes held a post of command when the Spaniards took Calais in 1596 under the orders of King Philip II of Spain.

November 5, 1605, Fawkes was arrested in the cellars of Parliament House.

In 1606 Parliament agreed to make 5th November a day of public thanksgiving and ever since then the day has been celebrated with fireworks and bonfires.

Details of the gunpowder plot:

On 5th November 1605, two years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, soldiers discovered a man called Guy Fawkes in a cellar under the Houses of Parliament. With him were at least twenty barrels of gunpowder. Guy Fawkes was arrested and tortured. At last he gave way and told his torturers about a plot to blow up Parliament together with the king, James I, his ministers and Members of Parliament. Fawkes was a Roman Catholic who had been angered by the failure of King James, who was after all the son of the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. He had joined with a group of four other Catholics led by Robert Catesby in the plot to kill the king. Catesby had made the mistake of inviting other Catholics to join the plot. One of these was called Francis Tresham. Tresham wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Lord Monteagle warning him not to go to Parliament and Monteagle told the government. The plot was foiled at the eleventh hour; some of the plotters escaped, some turned King's Evidence and reported on the rest.

The unlucky Fawkes was taken in chains to the Tower of London and beheaded at dawn. He was hanged, drawn and quartered. After Guy was hanged, he was drawn (drug) through the streets of London behind a horse cart. At a public venue, he was then chopped into 'quarters'. The charge was treason, though some people in England prefer to remember Guy as "the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions." In 1606 Parliament agreed to make 5th November a day of public thanksgiving and ever since then it has been known as "Guy Fawkes Night", with people all over Britain letting off fireworks and lighting bonfires. To this day, one of the ceremonies that accompany the opening of a new session of parliament, is the searching of the basement. Parliament somehow made political capital out of the close call, and poor Guy Fawkes is burned in effigy every November 5th on bonfires.

because in in tudor times that name was very popular

Guy comes from the French language and it was obviously favoured by his parents. Fawkes is an old surname which is spelt quite a few ways, such as Folkes

he live in childwood

The king at the time was James I (James VI of Scotland).