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English participant in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot

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For other uses, see Guy Fawkes (disambiguation).

Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606),^[a] also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the Eighty Years' War against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Low Countries.

He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England without success.

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He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England. Wintour introduced him to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotte