Robert Wintour

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Robert Wintour was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarchy.

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Robert Wintour canonical 8

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instanceOf English Catholic conspirator
Gunpowder Plot conspirator
historical figure
arrestedFor Gunpowder Plot
linked to: The Gunpowder Plot
burialPlace unmarked grave (as a traitor)
capturedAt Huddington, Worcestershire, England
centuryOfActivity 16th century
17th century
coConspirator Ambrose Rookwood
Everard Digby
Francis Tresham
Guy Fawkes
Henry Garnet
John Grant
Robert Catesby
Thomas Percy
Thomas Wintour
confession Roman Catholic
convictedOf high treason
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfArrest January 1606
dateOfBirth c. 1568
dateOfDeath 30 January 1606
familyResidence Huddington Court
father George Wintour
goal assassination of King James I
restoration of a Catholic monarchy in England
historicalPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean era
linked to: Stuart period
knownFor attempt to overthrow the Protestant establishment in England
mannerOfDeath execution by hanging, drawing and quartering
memberOf Wintour family
notableFor Gunpowder Plot
linked to: The Gunpowder Plot
opposedPoliticalSystem Protestant rule in England
opposedTo King James I of England
linked to: James VI and I
participatedIn Gunpowder Plot
linked to: The Gunpowder Plot
penalty death
placeOfBirth Huddington, Worcestershire, England
placeOfDeath London, England
placeOfExecution Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London
linked to: Old Palace Yard
politicalAlignment pro-Catholic
reasonForNotability involvement in attempt to blow up the House of Lords in 1605
religion Roman Catholicism
sibling Thomas Wintour
socialClass gentry
spouse Gertrude Talbot
triedBy English authorities

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Gunpowder Plot participant Robert Wintour
subject linked to: The Gunpowder Plot
Thomas Wintour sibling Robert Wintour
Thomas Wintour coConspirator Robert Wintour
Christopher Wright associatedWith Robert Wintour
Everard Digby coConspirator Robert Wintour
Ambrose Rookwood associatedWith Robert Wintour
Jesuit Treason participant Robert Wintour
Robert Catesby recruitedConspirator Robert Wintour