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Megoldás: Guy Fawkes Night
On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition of his part in the failed 'Gunpowder Plot’of 1605.
Fawkes didn't devise or lead the plot to assassinate James I, so why is he still singled out as one of British history's greatest villains more than 400 years after his death?
Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York. When Guy was eight, his father died and his widowed mother married a Catholic. By the time he was 21 he had sold the estate his father had left him and gone to Europe to fight for Catholic Spain against the Protestant Dutch republic in the Eighty Years War.
It was while on campaign fighting for Spain that Fawkes was approached by Thomas Wintour, one of the plotters and asked to join what would become known as the Gunpowder Plot, under the leadership of Robert Catesby.
His expertise with gunpowder gave him a key role in the conspiracy But he was arrested at midnight on 4 November 1605 beneath the House of Lords. Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder were found stacked in the cellar directly below where the king would have been sitting for the opening of parliament the next day.
Fawkes was subjected to various tortures and he withstood two days of the most terrible pain before he confessed all. Fawkes was sentenced to death.
Through the centuries the Guy Fawkes legend has become ever-more entrenched, and by the 19th Century it was his effigy that was being placed on the bonfires that were lit annually to commemorate the failure of the plot.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/guy_fawkes)
Fawkes didn't devise or lead the plot to assassinate James I, so why is he still singled out as one of British history's greatest villains more than 400 years after his death?
Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York. When Guy was eight, his father died and his widowed mother married a Catholic. By the time he was 21 he had sold the estate his father had left him and gone to Europe to fight for Catholic Spain against the Protestant Dutch republic in the Eighty Years War.
It was while on campaign fighting for Spain that Fawkes was approached by Thomas Wintour, one of the plotters and asked to join what would become known as the Gunpowder Plot, under the leadership of Robert Catesby.
His expertise with gunpowder gave him a key role in the conspiracy But he was arrested at midnight on 4 November 1605 beneath the House of Lords. Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder were found stacked in the cellar directly below where the king would have been sitting for the opening of parliament the next day.
Fawkes was subjected to various tortures and he withstood two days of the most terrible pain before he confessed all. Fawkes was sentenced to death.
Through the centuries the Guy Fawkes legend has become ever-more entrenched, and by the 19th Century it was his effigy that was being placed on the bonfires that were lit annually to commemorate the failure of the plot.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/guy_fawkes)