Rye House Plot

The Rye House Conspiracy, English " Rye House Plot", was a failed conspiracy in 1683 with the aim of King Charles II of England and his brother and heir James, Duke of York, to murder because of their prokatholischen policy.

The name Rye House ( German: Rye House ) derives from the name of the manor in which the conspiracy was to be realized.

Course

After the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in 1660 passed in parliament members, former republicans and Protestant population in the general concerns that the bonds of the king of France under Louis XIV and other Catholic European rulers were too tight. Reservations about Catholics were widespread and focused on the question of succession. Although Charles II was a Protestant, he and his brother were known to have sympathies towards Catholics. These suspicions were confirmed, known as 1670 Jacob gave, convert to the Catholic faith - so that would be after the death of Charles II now follow to the English throne, the first since Mary Tudor, a Catholic.

1681 tried to exclude from the succession Parliament Jacob. Charles II outwitted his opponents and dissolved the parliament finally on. This prompted his opponents to prevent Jacob's throne with illegal means and rumors of conspiracies and upheavals made ​​the rounds.

Rye House, a manor house in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, was one of the well-known as a Republican Richard Rumbold. Under the plan, a troop of a hundred armed men should hide in the grounds of the house and lie in wait for the King and the Duke on the way home from the horse racing at Newmarket back to London.

The conspirators expected the ride of the king and his brother to London for April 1 in 1683. In Newmarket but broke out on March 22, 1683 from a great fire that destroyed half the city. The races were canceled, and the king and the duke returned prematurely back to London. So the conspiracy ultimately failed.

Details of the conspiracy broke out and Charles II and his entourage acted quickly. Many of the well- known as a Protestant parliament members were arrested. Among them were Algernon Sidney, Lord William Russell and Sir Thomas Armstrong.