Editing Guy Fawkes (section)

===Military career===
In October 1591 Fawkes sold the estate in [[Clifton, York|Clifton]] in York that he had inherited from his father.{{efn|Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' claims 1592, multiple alternative sources give 1591 as the date. Peter Beal, ''A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450 to 2000'', includes a signed indenture of the sale of the estate dated 14 October 1591. (pp. 198–199)}} He travelled to the continent to fight in the [[Eighty Years' War]] for Catholic Spain against the new [[Dutch Republic]] and, from 1595 until the [[Peace of Vervins]] in 1598, France. Although England was not by then engaged in land operations against Spain, the two countries were [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585)|still at war]], and the attempted invasion of England, led by the [[Spanish Armada]] in 1588, was only five years in the past. He joined [[William Stanley (born 1548)|Sir William Stanley]], an English Catholic and veteran commander in his mid-forties who had raised an army in Ireland to fight in [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester|Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands]]. Stanley had been held in high regard by [[Elizabeth I]], but following his surrender of [[Deventer]] to the Spanish in 1587 he, and most of his troops, had switched sides to serve Spain. Fawkes became an {{lang|es|[[alférez (rank)|alférez]]}} or junior officer, fought well at the [[Siege of Calais (1596)|siege of Calais in 1596]], and by 1603 had been recommended for a [[Captain (armed forces)|captaincy]].<ref name="ODNB Fawkes">{{citation |last=Nicholls |first=Mark |contribution=Fawkes, Guy (bap. 1570, d. 1606) |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=online |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9230 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9230}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref> That year, he travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England. He used the occasion to adopt the Italian version of his name, Guido, and in his memorandum described [[James VI and I|James I]] (who became king of England that year) as "a heretic", who intended "to have all of the Papist sect driven out of England". He denounced Scotland, and the king's [[favourite]]s among the Scottish nobles, writing "it will not be possible to reconcile these two nations, as they are, for very long".{{sfn|Fraser|2005|p=89}} Although he was received politely, the court of [[Philip III of Spain|Philip III]] was unwilling to offer him any support.{{sfn|Fraser|2005|pp=87–90}}