We have been reading fiction about London this week. Katie was in London over the weekend and has been telling us about her trip. Today is Guy Fawkes day. He lived in London a long time ago. What do you know about Guy Fawkes? Post some interesting facts about him in a comment.
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Guy Fawkes is also none as GUIDO FAWKES.Born on 13 April 1570 at High Petergate in Yorkshire. Fawkes was the only son of Edward Fawkes and Edith Blake.His mother had given birth to a daugther a few years earlier named Anne.
ReplyDeleteOn the 5th of November 1605 Guy Fawkes planned to blow up the houses of parliament with some gunpowder plot. Two years after Queen Elizabeth died some soldiers discovered Guy Fawkes in aceller under the houses of parliament.
ReplyDeleteBorn: 1570 in York. Yes, Guy Fawkes was a Yorkshireman.
ReplyDeleteBaptised: 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. 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.
Guy 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.
Guy 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 choped 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.
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Guy Fawkes was an experienced soldier.Although he didn't fight for his country he fought for the spanish against the dutch in the Netherlands.This is where he gained experience with explosives and also where he decided to call himself Guido probably because it sounded spanish.
ReplyDeleteFACT.1. Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the House of Parliament with gun powder.
ReplyDeleteFACT.2. Him and his gang dug under ground the House of Parliament but then found out that there was a seller under it and put the gun powder there.
FACT.3. Someone didn't like that idea so he told the king.
FACT.4. Guy Fawkes punishment was death.
Guy fawkes got hanged.And he got his head chopped cut off.
ReplyDelete1570 - Guy Fawkes was born in Stonegate, York.
ReplyDelete1603 - Elizbeth I (daughter of Henry VIII) died without children.
James I (son of Mary Queen of Scots) was the next in line to the throne. He was Protestant and Parliament wanted him to be King. The Roman Catholics became upset because James passed a law that fined people who didn't attend Protestant services.
1604 - Robert Catesby masterminded the plan 'THE GUNPOWDER PLOT' to kill James I and many members of the Parliament to end Protestant rule. He met with Guy Fawkes who was to light the fuse because he had military experience also Thomas Percy, John Wright and Thomas Wintour, Francis Tresham, Everard Digby, Robert Wintour, Thomas Bates and Christopher Wright agreed to take part.
1605 - November 5th in a rented a cellar under the Houses of Parliament where they had hidden gunpower under piles of wood and coal. They were caught before they could light the fuse because of a warning letter to Lord Monteagle received on the 26th October. It was then sent to Secretary of State Robert Cecil, who decide to search beneath the House of Lords.
1606 - 31st January Guy Fawkes was executed in the garden of St. Paul's Cathedral, Old Palace yard, Westminster.
Fantastic facts guys, well done
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