Thomas Wintour

Thomas Wintour

Infobox Criminal
subject_name = Thomas Winter


image_size = thumb
image_caption = from engraving of the group
date_of_birth = c. 1571
place_of_birth =
date_of_death = January 31, 1606
place_of_death = London
charge = Conspiracy to assassinate King James I and members of the Parliament of England
penalty = hanging, drawing and quartering
status =
occupation =
spouse = Elizabeth Catesby
parents = George Wintour of Droitwich, Worcestershire
children =

Thomas Wintour (also spelt "Winter") (1571 (although some accounts say 1572) - January 31, 1606), was one of the principal Catholic conspirators in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate James I of England and Members of Parliament. His brother Robert Wintour was also a prominent member of the conspiracy.

He was married to Elizabeth Catesby, the sister of yet another of the leading members of the conspiracy, Robert Catesby.

He like most of the other plotters came from powerful Catholic families and so would have had enough money to fund the plot.

Wintour had asked King Philip III of Spain to support a Catholic uprising in England in 1603.

He was the inside man, as his brother was in Parliament.

Wintour, and the other conspirators, were executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering.

ee also

*Gunpowder plot
*Guy Fawkes

References

*Antonia Fraser, "Faith & Treason - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot", 1996. ISBN 0-385-47189-0

External links

* [http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/people/twintour.htm Biography at Gunpowder-plot.org]
* [http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/news/1998_04/wintour1.htm Descendants]


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