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- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour abstract "Robert Wintour (1568 – 30 January 1606) and Thomas Wintour (1571 or 1572 – 31 January 1606), also spelt Winter, were members of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed conspiracy to assassinate King James I. Both were related to other conspirators, such as their cousin, Robert Catesby, and a half-brother, John Wintour, also joined them following the plot's failure. Thomas was an intelligent and educated man, fluent in several languages and trained as a lawyer, but chose instead to become a soldier, fighting for England in the Low Countries, France, and possibly in Central Europe. By 1600, however, he changed his mind and became a fervent Catholic. On several occasions he travelled to the continent and entreated Spain on behalf of England's oppressed Catholics, and suggested that with Spanish support a Catholic rebellion was likely.As a momentum was building behind a peace settlement between the two countries, Thomas's pleas fell on deaf ears. Instead, in 1604 he decided to join with Catesby, who planned to restore England to Catholicism by killing the king, and inciting a popular revolt in the Midlands, during which James's daughter, Princess Elizabeth, would be installed as titular queen. Thomas returned to the continent and again failed to elicit Spanish support, but instead met Guy Fawkes, with whom he returned to England. Robert, a devout Catholic who inherited Huddington Court near Worcester, joined the conspiracy the following year.The plot began to unravel following the delivery of an anonymous letter to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, warning him to stay away from Parliament. Thomas and Catesby confronted Monteagle's brother-in-law, the recently recruited Francis Tresham, threatening to kill him, but Tresham managed to convince them of his innocence. At that stage Thomas reportedly asked Catesby to abandon the scheme, to no avail. When Fawkes was captured at about midnight on 4 November 1605, Thomas fled to Robert's house at Huddington. Catesby and most of the others spent two days travelling across the Midlands attempting to incite a rebellion, but with an ever-diminishing group of supporters they eventually settled at Holbeche House in Staffordshire, and waited for government forces to arrive. Thomas, by then reintegrated into the group, chose to remain with them, and in the ensuing firefight was shot in the shoulder, and captured. Robert, who had left before the battle, evaded capture until January 1606.Much of what is written about the plot is based on Thomas's confessions, given in the Tower of London in November 1605. The brothers were tried on 27 January 1606, and hanged, drawn and quartered several days later in London.".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour birthPlace Yorkshire.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathDate "1606".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathPlace Old_St_Paul's_Cathedral.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathPlace Westminster.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathYear "1606".
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- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour birthDate "1568".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour birthDate "1571".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour birthPlace Yorkshire.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour caption "Contemporary engravings of the brothers , from a larger image by Crispijn van de Passe".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour cause Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour dateOfDeath "30".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathDate "30".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathDate "31".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathPlace Old_St_Paul's_Cathedral.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour deathPlace Westminster.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour enlisted "Early 1604".
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- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour motive "Gunpowder plot, a conspiracy to assassinate King James VI & I and members of the Houses of Parliament".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour name "Robert and Thomas Wintour".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour name "Wintour, Thomas".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour parents "George Wintour, Jane Ingleby".
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour placeOfBirth Yorkshire.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour placeOfDeath Old_St_Paul's_Cathedral.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour placeOfDeath Westminster.
- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour quote "I remained with my brother in the country for Allhollantide, in the year of our Lord 1603, the first of the King's reign, about which time, Mr. Catesby sent thither, entreating me to come to London, where he and other friends would be glad to see me. I desired him to excuse me, for I found not myself very well disposed, and returned the messenger without my company. Shortly I received another letter, in any wise to come. At the second summons I presently came up and found him with Mr. John Wright at Lambeth, where he brake with me how necessary it was not to forsake my country , but to deliver her from the servitude in which she remained, or at least to assist her with our uttermost endeavours.".
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- Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour comment "Robert Wintour (1568 – 30 January 1606) and Thomas Wintour (1571 or 1572 – 31 January 1606), also spelt Winter, were members of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed conspiracy to assassinate King James I. Both were related to other conspirators, such as their cousin, Robert Catesby, and a half-brother, John Wintour, also joined them following the plot's failure.".
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