The Gunpowder Plot

The Gunpowder Plot

Introduction

Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is considered to be an unsuccessful attempt by a group of English Catholics to blow up the building of the Parliament in order to destroy sympathetic to the Protestants, and has taken a number of reprisals against Catholic King James I . The explosion was planned to take 5 November 1605, during a speech from the throne the monarch, except when he in the building of the House of Lords would be attended by members of both Houses of Parliament and representatives of the supreme judiciary of the country. The core focus of this paper is to discuss the most important causes related to the history that led to the occurrence of the Gunpowder plot.

Discussion

Jacob had some change their policies when in 1605 was discovered the so-called “powder” conspiracy. The Catholic part of the English population of the UK, seeing that the king, after all, does not give them full of will, while Parliament strongly manifests its Protestant sentiment is so agitated that she decided to literally blow up the entire Parliament at the same time, and together with him and his head - King . Attackers gained access to the lower, vaulted room, above which had come to the opening of Parliament all its members. Huge piles of gunpowder were already ready, just waiting for the onset of November 5, ie, the date of opening. But too much has been known that secret and the news of her, with the help of an anonymous letter came to the king and to his ministry. James I, as a man undoubtedly clever and energetic, was not a loss. It was produced by the strict inspection of the basement in which there was gunpowder, and caught in the act of “work” one of the villains, some Guy Fawkes, officer.

The consequence of this conspiracy was that the laws and regulations relating to Catholics living in the British dominions, became even more severe and unforgiving, and almost all the captured attackers paid dearly for his insolence - for their criminal intent. Up until now, Jacob is weak and rather sluggish continued anti-Spanish policy of his great predecessor. After that incident, he joined the general state and to Henry IV, French and resolutely sided with the enemies of Spain. The last he did not change even when the French monarch fell assassinated in 1610. But perhaps his politics influenced more by the fact that in 1609 the Spaniards detained for twelve years truce with those of its provinces, which have not previously been given into their hands. James has also established a close relationship with the German Protestants, was married to their Palatine, kurfyustov Frederick V, his daughter, Elizabeth. In order to bond well with the French court, the king of England has looked after there is a bride for his son, Henry, Prince of Wales. Unfortunately, in 1612 the young, richly endowed with intelligence and talent, loyal Protestant heir unexpectedly died, and his father was ...