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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.
Ambrose Rookwood (1664–1696) was an English Jacobite soldier, a conspirator and commander in the assassination plot of 1696 intended to kill William III of Great Britain. He was convicted and executed.
16 de ene. de 2022 · 31 January 1606 – Old Palace Yard, Westminster. 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.
26 de may. de 2024 · 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.
Fawkes and his surviving co-conspirators, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Robert Keyes were committed, tried and sentenced to the act of treason. Their fate was grisly: on 31 January 1606, they were dragged behind a horse along the streets of London to Westminster Yard where, one by one, they were hanged, drawn and quartered.
Ambrose Rookwood was the eldest son of Robert Rookwood of Stanningfield, Suffolk by his second wife Dorothy, dau. of Sir William Drury of Hawstead.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.However, the family remained staunchly catholic and many of them, Ambrose's ...
The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Ambrose Rookwood, for the horrid and execrable conspiracy to assassinate his sacred majesty King William (London, 1696), p. 2. See also Anon., True copies of the papers which Brigadier Rookwood, and Major Lowick, delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, at Tyburn, April 29. 1696 (London ...
