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Everard Digby

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Everard Digby

(1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

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About Everard Digby

Sir Everard Digby was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Although he was raised in a Protestant household and married a Protestant, Digby and his wife were converted to Catholicism by the Jesuit priest John Gerard. In the autumn of 1605, he was part of a Catholic pilgrimage to the shrine of St Winefride's Well in Holywell, Wales. About this time, he met Robert Catesby, who planned to blow up the House of Lords with gunpowder, killing James I. Catesby then planned to incite a popular revolt, through which a Catholic monarch would be placed upon the English throne.

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Occupation: politician
Citizenship: England
Born: May 16, 1578
Died

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Thomas Athow (active 1806 - 1830) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

January 1606

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