Thomas Wintour
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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 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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- Antonia Fraser, Faith & Treason - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, 1996. ISBN 0-385-47189-0
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