Another multicentenary in 2005

The Gunpowder Plot involved a Catesby or two, did it not? I think I read somewhere that they were related to Richard's man.

--- In , "Stephen Lark"
<smlark@t...>
wrote:
> The Gunpowder Plot involved a Catesby or two, did it not? I think I
read
somewhere that they were related to Richard's man.
>
>


They were indeed, but I'm not sure how. The Catesby (Robert?) of
Gunpowder
Plot fame was a member of the Warwickshire branch of the family.
According
to Charles Ross, William Catesby had been a Lancastrian and a member
of
Henry VI's court. The Catesbys were also related to the
Throckmortons and
Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden. The Throckmortons were staunch
Catholics, and still are.