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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.
16. Jan. 2022 · 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]. 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.
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.
The final three conspirators were recruited in late 1605. At Michaelmas, Catesby persuaded the staunchly Catholic Ambrose Rookwood to rent Clopton House near Stratford-upon-Avon. Rookwood was a young man with recusant connections, whose stable of horses at Coldham Hall in Stanningfield, Suffolk was an important
Ambrose Rookwood (1664–1696) was an English Jacobite soldier, a conspirator and commander in the assassination plot of 1696 intended to kill William III of Great Britain. He was convicted and executed.
29. Dez. 2020 · Ambrose Rookwood (1664–1696), born on 20 Sept. 1664, entered the army, in which he rose to be brigadier under James II, and acquired a high reputation for courage and honour. He remained an adherent of the Jacobite cause, and early in 1696 Sir George Barclay [q. v.] enlisted his services in the plot to kidnap or assassinate William ...
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
