Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, (York, 13 april 1570 – 31 January London, 1606) was an English soldier. He is best known because of its role in the conspiracy to King James I and a lot of the Scottish nobility to kill living in London.

Fawkes was born in York, where he was baptized in the Church of St. Michael-le-Belfry and where he went to school. He served a few years as a soldier, where he gained experience with explosives. Fawkes served under the Spanish during the eighty years ' war, and helped to take, among other things, Calais (1596). ==Gunpowder Treason[ Edit] == The attack against the Protestant King James I was devised in may 1604 by the English Catholics Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, Robert Keyes, Thomas Wintour and Robert Wintour. Fawkes, who had considerable military knowledge and experience with explosives, quickly came into contact with Catesby.

On 5 november 1605, Fawkes in a cellar under the House of Lords caught, with fuses and gunpowder in his possession. The conspiracy is therefore known as the Gunpowder treason. Fawkes and six other culprits were arrested and sentenced to death for high treason . The conspiracy was discovered by a Catholic Lord, a friend of Fawkes, who had received a letter of warning to not to come to Parliament.

Fawkes was sentenced to hanging and quartering. When Fawkes before his execution was asked why he wanted to kill the King, he said that he only the orders of the then Pope excommunicatedthe King, who had succeeded. That Fawkes not everywhere as the villain is considered, evidenced by the fact that one of the Galapagos Islands is named after him: Isla Guy Fawkes, and a nature park in New South Wales: Guy Fawkes River national park. ==Folklore[ Edit] == On 5 november each year during Guy Fawkes Night commemorated the gunpowder treason in the United Kingdom . On that occasion puts out one dolls of straw that Guy Fawkes proposals on fire together with large amounts of Fireworks. In the cellars of the British Parliament is traditionally an inspection held that day to see if there is not another attack is planned.

The events surrounding the Gunpowder treason still constitute a source of inspiration. So it was the basis for the story of the graphic novel ' V for Vendetta ', where in America also in 2005 a feature film V for Vendetta by was created. In addition, the Guy Fawkesmasker as identifier used by among other things the Anonymous group.