The Consequences Of Robert Catesby And The Catholic Church

In the Medieval times, the Roman Catholic Church played a great role in the development of England and had much more power than the Church of today does. In Medieval England, the Roman Catholic Church dominated everyday life and controlled everyone whether it is knights, peasants or kings. The Church was one of the most influential institutions in all of Medieval England and played a large role in education and religion. The Church's power was so great that they could order and control knights and sends them to battle whenever they wished to. The Church also had the power to influence the decision of Kings and could stop or pass laws which benefited them in the long run, adding to this, the Church had most of the wealth in Europe as the

To begin, the conspirators and people who live in England do not like the changes that the Queen has been making. One of the first changes that the Queen made when she

It emphasised the part political greed placed on individuals sparking rebellion as “a last-ditch attempt by those who were out of favour at court to restore their political fortunes by seizing on the discontents and puzzlements of others”. The Earl of Essex had gained a good reputation and worked his way up to be Elizabeth’s favourite courtier. However, he was short of money and so attempted to rule the court and oppose his rival Cecil which caused the Queen to turn against him. On one occasion during a heated Privy Council debate on the problems in Ireland, the Queen reportedly “cuffed an insolent Essex round the ear, prompting him to half draw his sword on her”. The incident meant Essex felt he had been publically shamed and was sent from court consequently losing all his influence at court. Political factions were central to the cause of this revolt as the Earl resented the influence that Robert Cecil had at court and thought by showing force in the form of a rebellion would lead the Queen to readmit him to court and to her favour. The Essex rebellion is very significant in showing how the corruption of the patronage system by Essex, and the dominance of Cecil, continued to affect politics after the Tudor period had ended into James’ I reign where political instability let to the Catholic dominated Main, Bye and Gunpowder plots. This underpins the argument that

To worsen the situation of Catholics, rumors about a Popish Plot started to be spread. Oates and Tonge, the ones who invented the plot, affirmed that a group of Jesuits were planning to kill the King and place in his place his Catholic brother, James. Thereupon these declarations, a wave of false accusations against Catholics were made, and many were punished and killed. The Commons passed a bill hardening the Test Act. In response to this supposed Popish Plot, the Whigs started a plot to prevent James from becoming the new King when Charles died. When this conspiracy was brought to light, it ruined the Whig

In 1605, a group of young and angry Catholics decided that they had enough of King James I, and decided to take over the kingdom of England. They planned to destroy the Protestant government by murdering the most important men in the kingdom. Many people since think that the Gunpowder Plot was a conspiracy theory to make the Catholics even more unpopular in society. Others think that the traditional story that they had been taught for generations was true. In order to find out we have to consider the actions that make the Gunpowder Plot look like a conspiracy theory and the traditional story.

Although the Protestant Reformers (i.e., Luther, and Zwingli) challenged the Roman Catholic Church to return to Scripture as the primary source of Christian theology, members of other groups believed Luther and Zwingli failed to include the New Testament teachings on the difference between the church and society. As a result, a group of Protestant radicals led by Georg Blaurock and Conrad Grebel founded a new congregation that became known as the Anabaptist. The split occurred when the radicals could not convince Zwingli to agree with their views on the connection between the civic community and the religious community. Consequently, the Anabaptist and later the Mennonites expanded on the Protestant Reformation. In

Nationalism made the Catholics believe that Henry VIII was right to remove the pope even though they may not have agreed with Henry’s decisions. This change gave the Lutherans and other reformers great hope also, knowing now that their greatest rival, the pope, had been deposed. Unfortunately, other Englishmen who stood firm against the Act of Supremacy met strong opposition from the king. Soon after, another law was passed called the Law of Treason and Heresy. This law made sure that everyone recognized the king as the head of the church and more importantly, brought punishments to anyone who did not receive the king as the lawful head of the Church of England.

Guy Fawkes, who also went by Guido, was a Spanish soldier who, along with his accomplices, spent many months planning the Gunpowder plot, a plan to blow King James I of England up with 36 barrels of Gun Powder. Their plans were ruined when Guy was caught Lurking in the cellar under the House of the Lord, where the barrels were located. In celebration of the failed plot, Londoners lit bonfires and fireworks, which became a yearly tradition, even to this day. This Gunpowder Plot was a result in Guy’s dislike to King James I. Guy fought against Protestant rebels, and even petitioned Spain’s King to help rebel King James I. Guy was a strong believer in the fact that King James I would try to drive out his Catholic subjects. He was once known as

This source is an excerpt from a letter from Pope Innocent IV to King henry III of England on the 23rd January 1245, shortly after the sacking of Jerusalem by Khwarezmian forces in the same year. When a Pope traditionally launches a crusade it is accompanied with excitatoria, formal letters appealing to nobility and kings for contribution to the forthcoming campaign. Although this letter was intended for the English king, Peter Jackson implies that the missing letter to King Louis IX would have almost have been identical concerning its content, language and the overarching appeal for the crusade to respond to the sacking of Jerusalem at the hands of the Khwarezmians. Discussion on finances and indulgences for the crusade is mentioned in the

On November 5, 1605 a crisis was averted. Robert Catesby and his followers had hatched a plan to blow up the House of the Lords while Parliament was in session. In doing so, they would kill the king and his officials and establish a Catholic monarchy in the resulting chaos. This would be known in later years as the Gunpowder Plot (Sommerville, "The Gunpowder Plot."). One of the most well-known plotters, Guy Fawkes, fought for the Spanish Catholics in the 1590s. During this time, he learned how to “mine” or dig passages underground to destroy enemy sites with explosives. This skill later helped the plotters figure out how to ignite the gunpowder. However, before the plotters could set off their gunpowder, Baron Monteagle received a letter advising him against attending the Parliament meeting “for God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time” (qtd. in Sommerville). Monteagle then passed the letter on to King James I. When James sent officials to search the area underneath the House of Lords, Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellar amongst

Due to investigation by Robert Cecil, He captured, tortured, and forced signed confession from Guy Fawkes for his involvement in the plot. Some of the conspirators, including Catesby and several others, died in fight at Essex House, England while the rest of the conspirators involved faced brutal tortures and executions. Overtime, Robert Catesby name became infamous than his counterpart Guy Fawkes, overshadowing the articulate plot designed by Catesby. The truth is that Guy Fawkes nothing to do with the concoction of the Gunpowder Plot.4 Guy Fawkes’s name is synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, however he is not the mastermind of the Plot. By Evaluating previous literature and documents, the real mastermind of the Gunpowder Plot was indeed Robert Catesby due to his motivations, strategic input, and sequential credit years after the plot unfold. Robert Gatsby's motivations came about due to the reign of Elizabeth I and the subquantial takeover by James

On January 1st of 1649, the Rump Parliament of England passed a mandate for the trial of King Charles I to which he would be charged with “subverting the fundamental laws and liberties of the nation while maliciously making war on the parliament and people of England.” After years of civil war and various failures in fulfilling kingly duties, Charles faced a trial against a strategically assembled English court that would choose his fate. This stands out in history as one of the most noteworthy and dramatic events in early modern England- a domestic political crisis unlike anything that had ever been seen before. Over the years historians have debated in how they characterize the king’s trial and its end result, referring to the execution as “a crime of the worst magnitude, a regrettable necessity, or a laudable challenge to either an individual ruler or the entire political system.” Due to the overall disapproval of the trial by prominent individuals, biased personnel assembled in the court, questionable legal legitimacy, improper court proceedings and unfortunate socio-economic circumstances during his reign, it can be concluded that King Charles I did not receive a fair trial.

This essay will discuss the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when a group of catholic noblemen plotted to blow up the English House of Parliament; the target of the plot was King James VI of Scotland and I of England. This essay will focus on how the event impacted Catholics and their treatment in society and law after the event. Primary sources including letters, Parliamentary documents and their insight into how the event impacted Catholics in the years after the event will be used to provide evidence and Secondary sources to provide different historians views on the treatment of Catholics.

Some MP’S were alarmed by others who printed the Grande Remonstrance to the public journal in order to make people see. The Parliament did not appreciate this fact as they did not want the other people to know about the politic affairs. Adding to this, a rebellion in Ireland broke down as Catholics rose up against their Protestant rulers and 400 of the Protestants were killed. A rumour spread that Charles was behind this rebellion to make England turn into a Catholic country. Having no intention to restore Catholicism or govern without any reference to the law, Charles did not understand why the MP’s feared the Catholic tyranny.

The Catholic Church played an important role at the time when all the works in which the movement of the earth was admitted, Catholics were forbidden to teach, and even read, the Copernican theories. The “Copernican Theory” modeled some problems of enormous importance for Christian’s obviously theological nature. Leaders like Martin Luther and John Calvin told us that Scripture brandished against Nicolaus Copernicus and provoked repression against its followers, but generally abandon the fight Protestantism once the “Theories of Copernicus” were confirmed with indisputable evidence. In this paper, I will first evaluate the history about how “Copernican Theory” and its model of the earth came into existence. I will also analyze the “Copernican Theory” in light of Churches idea of the earth being flat. I will ultimately argue that Nicolaus Copernicus played an important role in the history of Philosophy of Science.