![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/who-was-guy-fawkes-and-what-was-the-gunpowder-plot/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ML-Guy-Fawkes-SUN-EXPL.jpg&description=EVERY year on Bonfire Night we remember Guy Fawkes by celebrating the failed gunpowder plot of 1605. But who is Guy Fawkes and what was the gunpowder plot? Here's why we Remember, Remember the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes was involved in the gunpowder plot of 1605Credit: Getty Images - Getty Who were Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby? On November 5, 1605, a group of dissident Catholics plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I. Two members of that group included Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby. Guy Fawkes Guy "Guido" Fawkes was the trigger man drafted in to set the fuse to blow up the Palace of Westminster on November 5, 1605. Born in York he converted to Catholicism following the death of his father and left to become a mercenary fighter for the Spanish against the Protestant Dutch. He was given the responsibility to set and light the fuse of gunpowder as he had extensive knowledge in explosives. However, he was caught red-handed by the King's men beneath the palace, attempting to explode 36 barrels of gunpowder. He was then tortured until he gave up his co-conspirators. Traditionally traitors in 17th-century England were hanged, drawn and quartered in public. However, Fawkes avoided the barbaric punishment by leaping from the platform, to avoid having his testicles cut off, and broke his neck. Robert Catesby The ringleader of the plot was Warwickshire-born Catholic Robert Catesby. Catesby became deeply religious as he matured after what was said to be a wild youth. He wanted to bring England back to the Catholic faith and is understood to have colluded with the Spanish government in 1602 about instigating a rebellion to achieve that goal. He later came up with the plan to blow up Parliament and kill King James I in order to install his daughter as the new Catholic ruler. But after Fawkes' capture, he was eventually tracked down and killed in a shoot-out on the morning of November 8, 1605, at Holbeach House near Kingswinford, Staffs. Those plotting){kind=link}
EVERY year on Bonfire Night we remember Guy Fawkes by celebrating the failed gunpowder plot of 1605.
But who is Guy Fawkes and what was the gunpowder plot? Here’s why we Remember, Remember the 5th of November.
On November 5, 1605, a group of dissident Catholics plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I.
Two members of that group included Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby.
Guy “Guido” Fawkes was the trigger man drafted in to set the fuse to blow up the Palace of Westminster on November 5, 1605.