Christopher Wright

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Christopher Wright was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and blow up the Houses of Parliament.

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Christopher Wright canonical 6

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instanceOf English Catholic conspirator
person
activeYears early 17th century
late 16th century
associatedWith Ambrose Rookwood
Everard Digby
Francis Tresham
Guy Fawkes
John Grant
Robert Catesby
Robert Keyes
Robert Wintour
Thomas Bates
Thomas Percy
Thomas Wintour
causeOfDeath gunshot wound
countryOfBirth Kingdom of England
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
countryOfDeath Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1570
dateOfDeath 1605-11-08
educatedAt St Peter's School, York
era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean era
linked to: Stuart period
ethnicGroup English
familyName Wright
givenName Christopher
knownFor Gunpowder Plot
linked to: The Gunpowder Plot

attempted assassination of King James I of England
plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605
mannerOfDeath killed while resisting arrest
movement English Catholic recusants
notableEvent besieged at Holbeche House by government forces
fled London after discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
opponent English Parliament
James I of England
linked to: James VI and I
opposedTo Protestant establishment in England
participantIn Gunpowder Plot
linked to: The Gunpowder Plot
placeOfBirth York
placeOfDeath Holbeche House
Staffordshire
politicalAlignment pro-Catholic
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Tuddhoe
Yorkshire
sibling John Wright
spouse Margaret Ward

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Gunpowder Plot participant Christopher Wright
subject linked to: The Gunpowder Plot
Thomas Wintour coConspirator Christopher Wright
Thomas Percy associatedWith Christopher Wright
John Wright sibling Christopher Wright
Jesuit Treason participant Christopher Wright
Robert Catesby recruitedConspirator Christopher Wright