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Coughton Court / ˈ k oʊ t ən / [1] (grid reference) is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building . The house has a long crenellated façade directly facing the main road, at the centre of which is the Tudor Gatehouse, dating from after 1536; this ...
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
Sir Everard Digby (c. 1578 – 30 January 1606) was a member of the group of provincial members of the English nobility who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. . Although he was raised in an Anglican household and married a Protestant, Digby and his wife were secretly received into the strictly illegal and underground Catholic Church in England by the Jesuit priest Fr. Joh
Arms of Catesby: Argent, two lions passant sable crowned or He was born after 1572, the third and only surviving son and heir of Sir William Catesby of Lapworth in Warwickshire, by his wife Anne Throckmorton, [1] a daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton (c.1513–1581), KG, of Coughton Court in Warwickshire (by his second wife, Elizabeth Hussey [2]).
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She said working on the programme, The Gunpowder Plot, allowed her to see the events "through 21st Century eyes". 1573 - Robert Catesby is born. 1603 - Thomas Percy visits Catesby at Ashby St Ledgers.
According to a Warwickshire website, Thomas Throckmorton went abroad before the Gunpowder Plot (1605), [2] [unreliable source?] but he let Coughton Court to one of the conspirators, Sir Everard Digby. [1] [2] Throckmorton was not implicated in the plot, but fines for recusancy, previously waived, were reimposed. [1]
News of the Gunpowder Plot was brought to Hindlip from Huddington Court Some priests came from Coughton Court, expecting greater safety at Hindlip. One of the Gunpowder suspects, the priest Thomas Strange (alias Anderton or Hungerford), a cousin of Thomas Habington, and a friend of Ben Jonson, [25] was arrested in November