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Ambrose Rookwood, né vers 1578 et mort le 31 janvier 1606, est un membre du groupe d'Anglais catholiques qui a planifié le complot de la Conspiration des poudres en 1605. Ce complot vise à assassiner le roi protestant Jacques I er pour le remplacer par un roi catholique.
Ambrose Rookwood (c. 1578 – 31 January 1606) was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic sovereign. Rookwood was born into a wealthy family of Catholic recusants, and educated by Jesuits in Flanders.
16 janv. 2022 · Ambrose Rookwood was the eldest son of Robert Rookwood of Stanningfield, Suffolk by his second wife Dorothea [1]. The family was an old and influential one in the area, having held the manor of Stanningfield since Edward I, and had many members who represented Suffolk in parliament.
Ambrose Rookwood, a member of the Roman Catholic gentry, was brought into the Gunpowder Plot in September 1605 because of his wealth and his renowned stable of horses, which would assist the...
At Michaelmas, Catesby persuaded the staunchly Catholic Ambrose Rookwood to rent Clopton House near Stratford-upon-Avon. Rookwood was a young man with recusant connections, whose stable of horses at Coldham Hall in Stanningfield , Suffolk was an important factor in his enlistment.
5 nov. 2005 · In 1696 a plan was discovered to assassinate William, as a result of which Ambrose Rookwood, grandson of the Plotter, was executed. William and Mary, and Mary’s younger sister Queen Anne, died without leaving an heir.
Ambrose Rookwood. Ambrose Rookwood was born around 1578 into a Suffolk Catholic family. He was educated among Catholics, in Flanders, and married into another Catholic family, the Tyrwhitts of Lincolnshire. He inherited his father's estates in 1600 and was recruited by Catesby in September 1605.
