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John Ballard (died 20 September 1586) was an English priest executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England in the Babington Plot. John Ballard was the son of William Ballard of Wratting, Suffolk. Ballard matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1569, but subsequently migrated to Caius College, Cambridge, and on the 29 November 1579 went on to study at the English College at Rheims. He was ordained as a secular priest at Châlons on 4 March 1581, and was sent back to England on 29 March as a Catholic missionary and, as such, had a price on his head. To conceal his true identity, he played the part of a swashbuckling, courtly soldier called Captain Fortescue and was once described as wearing 'a fine cape laced with gold, a cut satin doublet a

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  • John Ballard (* im 16. Jahrhundert; † 20. September 1586 in London) war ein englischer Jesuitenpriester und Drahtzieher der Verschwörung gegen Königin Elisabeth I., der sogenannten Babington-Verschwörung. (de)
  • John Ballard (died 20 September 1586) was an English priest executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England in the Babington Plot. John Ballard was the son of William Ballard of Wratting, Suffolk. Ballard matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1569, but subsequently migrated to Caius College, Cambridge, and on the 29 November 1579 went on to study at the English College at Rheims. He was ordained as a secular priest at Châlons on 4 March 1581, and was sent back to England on 29 March as a Catholic missionary and, as such, had a price on his head. To conceal his true identity, he played the part of a swashbuckling, courtly soldier called Captain Fortescue and was once described as wearing 'a fine cape laced with gold, a cut satin doublet and silver buttons on his hat'. Being a tall, dark-complexioned man, he was referred to by those who were unaware of his true identity as 'Black Foskew'. In the Babington Plot, Ballard instigated Anthony Babington, Chidiock Tichborne and others to assassinate the Queen as a prelude to a full-blown invasion of England by Spanish-led Catholic forces. However, the plot had been discovered and nurtured by Queen Elizabeth's spymaster Francis Walsingham from the start. Indeed, Ballard's inseparable companion and fixer, Barnard Maude, who travelled everywhere with him, was a government spy. The plot was manipulated by Walsingham in order to bring about his primary objective: the downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots. When Mary gave her consent to the plot by replying to a letter sent to her by Babington, her days were numbered. With this vital piece of evidence in his possession, Walsingham had Ballard and the other conspirators arrested. Ballard was tortured. The conspirators were tried at Westminster Hall on 13 and 14 September 1586 and found guilty of treason and conspiracy against the Crown. They were executed by hanging, drawing and quartering in two batches on the 20 and 21 September. Ballard was executed on the first day along with the other main conspirators. The manner of their deaths was so bloody and horrific that it deeply shocked those who were present at the spectacle. When Elizabeth was told of the suffering the men had endured on the scaffold, and its effect on the many witnesses, she is said to have ordered that the remaining seven conspirators be left hanging until they were 'quite dead' before being cut down and butchered. (en)
  • John Ballard (fallecido el 20 de septiembre de 1586) era un inglés Jesuita.Sacerdote ejecutado para ser implicado en un intento de magnicidio a la Reina Isabel I de Inglaterra, en el Babington Plot. (es)
  • John Ballard (gestorven 20 september 1586) was een katholieke priester en medesamenzweerder in het . (nl)
  • John Ballard (... – Londra, 20 settembre 1586) è stato un religioso inglese e membro della Compagnia di Gesù. (it)
  • John Ballard, död 20 september 1586, var en engelsk jesuitpräst känd för sin inblandning i ett mordförsök på Elisabet I. Ballard övertalade adelsmannen Anthony Babington att delta i en sammansvärjning, som kom att kallas Babingtonsammansvärjningen, i syfte att störta och/eller mörda drottning Elisabet I och ersätta henne på tronen med den katolska Maria Stuart. John Ballard och de andra konspiratörerna avslöjades av Francis Walsingham och dömdes till döden genom hängning, dragning och fyrdelning för förräderi och för att konspirerat mot Kronan. I filmen Elizabeth (1998) porträtteras Ballard av Daniel Craig, även om historiska fakta inte stämmer, filmen snarare beskriver Ridolfisammansvärjningen än Babingtonsammansvärjningen. (sv)
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  • John Ballard (* im 16. Jahrhundert; † 20. September 1586 in London) war ein englischer Jesuitenpriester und Drahtzieher der Verschwörung gegen Königin Elisabeth I., der sogenannten Babington-Verschwörung. (de)
  • John Ballard (fallecido el 20 de septiembre de 1586) era un inglés Jesuita.Sacerdote ejecutado para ser implicado en un intento de magnicidio a la Reina Isabel I de Inglaterra, en el Babington Plot. (es)
  • John Ballard (gestorven 20 september 1586) was een katholieke priester en medesamenzweerder in het . (nl)
  • John Ballard (... – Londra, 20 settembre 1586) è stato un religioso inglese e membro della Compagnia di Gesù. (it)
  • John Ballard (died 20 September 1586) was an English priest executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England in the Babington Plot. John Ballard was the son of William Ballard of Wratting, Suffolk. Ballard matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1569, but subsequently migrated to Caius College, Cambridge, and on the 29 November 1579 went on to study at the English College at Rheims. He was ordained as a secular priest at Châlons on 4 March 1581, and was sent back to England on 29 March as a Catholic missionary and, as such, had a price on his head. To conceal his true identity, he played the part of a swashbuckling, courtly soldier called Captain Fortescue and was once described as wearing 'a fine cape laced with gold, a cut satin doublet a (en)
  • John Ballard, död 20 september 1586, var en engelsk jesuitpräst känd för sin inblandning i ett mordförsök på Elisabet I. Ballard övertalade adelsmannen Anthony Babington att delta i en sammansvärjning, som kom att kallas Babingtonsammansvärjningen, i syfte att störta och/eller mörda drottning Elisabet I och ersätta henne på tronen med den katolska Maria Stuart. John Ballard och de andra konspiratörerna avslöjades av Francis Walsingham och dömdes till döden genom hängning, dragning och fyrdelning för förräderi och för att konspirerat mot Kronan. (sv)
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