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  <title>Guy Fawkes</title>
  <description>Guy Fawkes&amp;amp;nbsp;(/fɔːks/; 13 April 1570&amp;amp;nbsp;– 31 January 1606),[a]&amp;amp;nbsp;also known as&amp;amp;nbsp;Guido Fawkes&amp;amp;nbsp;while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial&amp;amp;nbsp;English Catholics&amp;amp;nbsp;involved in the failed&amp;amp;nbsp;Gunpowder Plot&amp;amp;nbsp;of 1605. He was born and educated in&amp;amp;nbsp;York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a&amp;amp;nbsp;recusant&amp;amp;nbsp;Catholic. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the&amp;amp;nbsp;Eighty Years' War&amp;amp;nbsp;against Protestant Dutch&amp;amp;nbsp;reformers&amp;amp;nbsp;in the&amp;amp;nbsp;Low Countries. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England without success. He later met&amp;amp;nbsp;Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England. Wintour introduced him to&amp;amp;nbsp;Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate&amp;amp;nbsp;King James I&amp;amp;nbsp;and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters leased an&amp;amp;nbsp;undercroft&amp;amp;nbsp;beneath the&amp;amp;nbsp;House of Lords; Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder that they stockpiled there. The authorities were prompted by an anonymous letter to search&amp;amp;nbsp;Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and they found Fawkes guarding the explosives. He was questioned and tortured over the next few days and confessed to wanting to blow up the House of Lords. </description>
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