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Thomas Wintour (also spelt
Winter) (
1571 (although some accounts say
1572) -
January 31,
1606), was one of the principal
Catholic conspirators in the
1605 Gunpowder 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.
Wintour had asked King
Philip III of Spain to support a Catholic uprising in England in 1603.
He was the inside man, as his brother was in Parliament.
Wintour, and the other conspirators, were executed for treason by
hanging, drawing and quartering.
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