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    The Ridolfi plot was a Catholic plot in 1571 to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. The plot was hatched...
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    politician Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He was executed for his role in the Ridolfi plot. Thomas was born on 10 March 1536 (although some sources cite his birth...
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    Secret Agents) deals in part with the Babington plot. Rising of the North Ridolfi Plot Throckmorton Plot History of cryptography Somerest, Anne (1991)....
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  • friends abroad. In 1570, he set to work on a plot against Elizabeth I which usually bears his name: the Ridolfi plot. His intention was to marry Mary, Queen...
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    Rising of the North (1569) as well as intrigues like the Ridolfi Plot (1571) and the Babington Plot (1586), both intending to kill Elizabeth and replace her...
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  • Democratic Party politician Palazzo Ridolfi-Dalisca, Verona, historical palace located in Verona, northern Italy Ridolfi plot, plot in 1571 to assassinate Queen...
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  • first imprisoned, then pardoned. He was imprisoned again following the Ridolfi plot in 1571 and finally executed in 1572. Norfolk's treason charges included...
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  • Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary...
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  • Ferrante d'Este 1569 - 1569 Plot against John III of Sweden. 1570 - Ridolfi plot against Elizabeth I of England 1574 - Mornay Plot against John III of Sweden...
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  • Norfolk 2 June 1572 Executed for treason at Tower Hill for his role in the Ridolfi Plot. Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland 22 August 1572 Publicly beheaded...
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    John, Anthony, William; grandsons of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague who was implicated in the Ridolfi Plot in 1571, Burghley House Collections....
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    Mary, Queen of Scots (category Babington Plot)
    Walsingham (at that time England's ambassador to France) uncovered the Ridolfi Plot, a plan to replace Elizabeth with Mary with the help of Spanish troops...
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    Guy Fawkes (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    confession, on 9 November, implicated Francis Tresham. Following the Ridolfi plot of 1571, prisoners were made to dictate their confessions, before copying...
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    In 1586 Walsingham uncovered the Babington Plot. Following the Ridolfi Plot (1571) and the Throckmorton Plot (1583), this was another scheme to assassinate...
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    of English Catholic exiles; the former ambassador also supported the Ridolfi Plot of 1571. In 1567, Philip II created the count 1st Duke of Feria. Feria...
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  • bloopers. HHTV News: Bob Hale's Mary, Queen of Scots Report; the Ridolfi plot and Babington Plots fail. Ruthless Rulers: "Gross Designs": Vlad the Impaler takes...
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    tried Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587. In 1571 he was implicated in the Ridolfi Plot along with two of his Dacre brothers-in-law.. Anthony Browne was the...
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    Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 (which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke...
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    Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk was beheaded for his involvement in the Ridolfi plot. 22 August 1572: Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland was beheaded...
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  • Cathedral in London on 24 May. Florentine banker Roberto di Ridolfi devises the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Elizabeth and replace her with the Catholic...
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    released in August 1570, a few months later he became involved in the Ridolfi plot to overthrow Elizabeth, install Mary of Scots on the English throne and...
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    Susan Engel in the BBC series The Queen's Traitor (1967), about the Ridolfi plot Judith Anderson in Elizabeth the Queen (1968), an adaptation of Maxwell...
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    Elizabeth, where he is portrayed as a villainous bishop who took part in the Ridolfi plot and who vehemently opposed Elizabeth I's Act of Uniformity; in reality...
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    alliance with her enemies again shortly thereafter (Ridolfi plot). When he was again discovered plotting against the English queen, there was no more pardon...
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    Francis Walsingham (category Babington Plot)
    working with William Cecil to counteract plots against Elizabeth. He was instrumental in the collapse of the Ridolfi plot, which hoped to replace Elizabeth with...
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    which were at length to some extent exposed by the discovery of the Ridolfi plot in September 1571. He was once more arrested, and not liberated till...
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    Northern Earls, the excommunication of Elizabeth, and the discovery of the Ridolfi plot all contributed to a perception that Catholicism was treasonous. Executions...
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  • of India List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots Blümel, Wolfgang (1987). Die Inschriften von Mylasa, I. Inschriften der...
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  • Rising of the North. 1571: Ridolfi Plot. 1583: Throckmorton Plot. 1586: Babington Plot. 1603: Alleged Spanish-funded plot by courtiers led by Henry Brooke...
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    Southampton was imprisoned from October 1571 to May 1573 for his part in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and replace her on the English throne with...
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