so why is he still singled out as one of British history's greatest villains more than 400 years after his death? Picture: Print showing the Execution of Guy Fawkes, 1606 (engraving) by German School.

On 14 April 1570, Guy Fawkes was baptised here. During his childhood he was raised as a Protestant. After his father's death his mother remarried to a Catholic man and Guy converted to Catholicism.