Everard Digby

(1578-1606)

Gunpowder Plot conspirator

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Sir Everard Digby (c. 1578 – 30 January 1606) 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. 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, during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the English throne.

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Born	Everard Digby 1578
Died	30 January 1606 (aged 27) Westminster, London, England
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Mary Mulsho - · · m. ???? info edit

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Kenelm Digby info 1st child with Mary Mulsho · - · Celebrity Baby

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