Catesby, Robert

Catesby, Robert

▪ English conspirator
born 1573, Lapworth, Warwickshire, Eng.
died Nov. 8, 1605, Holbeche House, Staffordshire

      chief instigator of the Gunpowder Plot, a Roman Catholic conspiracy to blow up King James I and the English Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605.

      A member of a staunchly Roman Catholic family, Catesby became embittered against the government of Queen Elizabeth I as he saw his father, Sir William, persecuted for refusing to conform to the Church of England. In 1601 Robert Catesby was imprisoned and fined for joining the abortive uprising of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex. Upon his release he set about promoting a Spanish invasion of England, and as a result he was again briefly imprisoned shortly before Elizabeth's death in March 1603.

      Catesby placed little faith in the promises of religious toleration made by Elizabeth's successor, King James I (reigned 1603–25). As early as May 1603 he conceived the idea of destroying both King and Parliament by exploding gunpowder under the Parliament building, and in January 1604 he began to assemble a group of zealous Catholics to carry out his scheme, including the soldier Guy Fawkes and Thomas Percy, a relative of the Earl of Northumberland. But the government learned of the plot, and on Nov. 4, 1605, Fawkes was arrested. Catesby fled from London and took refuge in Holbeche House, Staffordshire, where he was killed while resisting government troops. The plot intensified anti-Catholic feelings in England.

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