Thomas Winter (also spelt Wintour) (1571 (although some accounts say 1572) - January 31, 1606), was one of the principal Catholic conspirators in the 1605Gunpowder Plot to assassinate James I of England and Members of Parliament. His brother Robert Wintour was also a prominent member of the conspiracy. He was married to Elizabeth Catesby, the sister of yet another of the leading members of the conspiracy, Robert Catesby. He was the inside man as his brother was in Parliament. Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near... // Events April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. ... A contemporaneous sketch of the conspirators The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a desperate but failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one attack by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James) (June 19, 1566 – March 27, 1625) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland and was the first to style himself King of Great Britain. ... Robert Wintour (1565 - January 30, 1606) was one of the leading members of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate James I of England and Members of Parliament. ... Robert Catesby (1573- November 8, 1605), was the leader of a group of Catholic conspirators (the most notable of whom was Guy Fawkes) who endeavoured to blow up the Houses of Parliament in England in 1605. ...
ThomasWintour was the second son of George Wintour of Huddington Court and his first wife, Jane Ingleby (Ingilby), daughter of Sir William Ingilby of Ripley Castle.
Wintour attended the ceremony of prorogation in the entourage of his friend Lord Monteagle, and the presence of the earl of Salisbury and most leading English noblemen in the House of Lords, right over the stockpiled gunpowder, must have reassured him that the authorities still suspected nothing.
ThomasWintour was struck in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt, losing the use of his right arm, and in the ensuing melee which claimed the lives of Catesby, Pervy, and the two Wright brothers, he was captured.
Thomas Percy was descended from the Earls of Northumberland, who had come to prominence in earlier Catholic uprisings involving Mary Queen of Scots, and now worked for his kinsman Henry Percy, the 9th Earl of Northumberland.
Tresham was the son of Sir Thomas Tresham, one of the leading Catholics of the later Elizabethan period, and one who had suffered greatly for his faith at the hands of the government.
ThomasWintour, the most senior of the plotters still alive, made his celebrated confession at the end of November.
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