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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, a member of the Roman Catholic gentry, was brought into the Gunpowder Plot in September 1605 because of his wealth and his renowned stable of horses, which would assist the...
31 de ene. de 2024 · Ambrose Rookwood. Born: 1578? Died: 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].
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.
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.
their crimes. Ambrose Rookwood, already fatally compromised in treason and engaged in open rebellion, scrupled at mere theft. He declined on the night of 5 November to take some horses from the stables of Warwick Casde, ' seing he
29 de mar. de 2011 · Over the next two months Catesby recruited Ambrose Rookwood, as well as Francis Tresham and Sir Everard Digby. Both Rookwood and Digby were wealthy and owned large numbers of horses, essential...
