Robert Catesby (c. 1572 – 8 November 1605) was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated at Oxford University. His family were prominent recusant Catholics, and presumably to avoid swearing the Oath of Supremacy he left college before taking his degree

Robert Catesby (born 1573, Lapworth, Warwickshire, Eng.—died Nov. 8, 1605, Holbeche House, Staffordshire) was the chief instigator of the Gunpowder Plot, a Roman Catholic conspiracy to blow up King James I and the English Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605.

2022年1月16日 · Robert Catesby was the only surviving son of Sir William Catesby of Lapworth and Anne Throckmorton of Coughton, his elder brother William having died in infancy. 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 ...

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in ...

2024年10月2日 · Robert Catesby (b. in or after 1572 – 8 November 1605) was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Most probably born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated in nearby Oxford.

2009年11月9日 · Every November 5, the British celebrate Guy Fawkes Day by burning Fawkes in effigy. What became known as the Gunpowder Plot was organized by Robert Catesby, a devout English Catholic whose...

2025年3月14日 · The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, together with his four coconspirators— Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes —were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics.

Catesby's exact role and actions in the proceedings of Gunpowder Plot, and the theories and arguments surrounding him are too voluminous to go into here, and the basic story is well known. Robert Catesby died at the raid on Holbeache House on Nov 8th, 1605; he and Thomas Percy both being shot

2010年11月8日 · On this day in history, 8th November 1605, Robert Catesby, the man thought to have been responsible for hatching up the Gunpowder Plot, was shot dead at Holbeche House in Staffordshire.

Biography: Robert Catesby was an English Catholic conspirator who was the leader of the group behind the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He died alongside his fellow conspirators after Guy Fawkes was caught guarding the gunpowder beneath the House of Parliament.