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Anthony Babington (24 October 1561 – 20 September 1586) was an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quartered.
Anthony Babington was an English conspirator, a leader of the unsuccessful “Babington Plot” to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and install Elizabeth’s prisoner, the Roman Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.
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Feb 27, 2012 · The Babington plot: the capture and execution of the conspirators. Scene from an execution. On Tuesday 20th September 1586, seven Catholic men were bound to hurdles in the Tower of London – one of them, a priest named John Ballard, on a single sled, the others two-a-piece – and then dragged westward on their final slow journey through the ...
Anthony Babington (born October 1561, Dethick, Derbyshire, Eng.—died Sept. 20, 1586, London) was an English conspirator, a leader of the unsuccessful “Babington Plot” to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and install Elizabeth’s prisoner, the Roman Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.
Jan 16, 2022 · Died : 20 September 1586 – St. Giles, London. Anthony Babington was descended from a family of great antiquity who in successive generations had acquired vast estates in and around Derbyshire.
ANTHONY BABINGTON (1561-1586), English conspirator, son of Henry Babington of Dethick in Derbyshire, and of Mary, daughter of George, Lord Darcy, was born in October 1561, and was brought up secretly a Roman Catholic.
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Sep 20, 2020 · Learn about the Catholic conspirators who plotted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I in 1586 and were executed on this day in Tudor history. Find out how the plot was discovered, who was involved, and what happened to Mary, Queen of Scots.