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- {geni:occupation} 19 June 1566 X 24 July 1567:, King of Great Britain / 2nd Lord Ardmannoch / 2nd Duke of Albany, King of England and Scotland, King: Scotland (1567 - 1603); England & Scotland (1603 - 1625), King of Scotland, King of England, and King of Ireland
{geni:about_me} *James Charles Stuart
*Duke of Rothesay on 19 June 1566.
*Prince of Scotland on 19 June 1566.
*2nd Earl of Ross [S., 1565] on 10 February 1567.
*2nd Lord Ardmannoch [S., 1565] on 10 February 1567.
*2nd Duke of Albany [S., 1565] on 10 February 1567.
*King James VI of Scotland on 24 July 1567.
*Crowned King of Scotland on 29 July 1567 at Church of the Holy Rood, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
*King James I of Great Britain on 24 March 1603.
*Crowned King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith on 25 July 1603 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.
*Knights of the Order of the Garter (375) - 1590
'''Links:'''
*[http://thepeerage.com/p10137.htm#i101370 The Peerage]
*[http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=3400 Geneall]
*'''King of Scots:''' Reign 24. July 1567 X 27. March 1625, Coronation 29. July 1567
>'''Predecessor:''' [http://www.geni.com/people/index/6000000003234018546 Mary] '''Successor:''' [http://www.geni.com/people/index/4498828 Charles I]
*'''Regents as long as James was a minor:'''
#[http://www.geni.com/people/James-Stewart/6000000004212441312 James Stewart, Earl of Moray]
#[http://www.geni.com/people/Matthew-Stewart-4th-Earl-of-Lennox/6000000003858695567 Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox]
#[http://www.geni.com/people/John-Erskine/6000000006444081647 John Erskine, Earl of Mar]
#[http://www.geni.com/people/James-Douglas/6000000003615466134 James Douglas, Earl of Morton]
*'''King of England and Ireland:''' Reign 24. March 1603 X 27. March 1625, Coronation 25. July 1603
>'''Predecessor:''' [http://www.geni.com/people/index/4476035 Elizabeth I] '''Successor:''' [http://www.geni.com/people/index/4498828 Charles I]
*'''Wikipedia:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England English]
- James I (of England) (1566-1625), king of England (1603-25) and, as James
VI, king of Scotland (1567-1625).
Born on June 19, 1566, in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, James was the only
son of Mary, queen of Scots, and her second husband, Lord Darnley. On the
abdication of his mother in 1567, he was proclaimed king of Scotland. A
succession of regents ruled the kingdom until 1576, when James became
nominal ruler. The boy king was little more than a puppet in the hands of
political intriguers until 1581. In that year, with the aid of his
favorites, James Stuart, earl of Arran (died 1596), and Esmé Stuart, duke
of Lennox (1542?-83), James assumed actual rule of Scotland. Scotland was
at that time divided domestically by religious conflict between the
Protestants and Roman Catholics, and in foreign affairs by those favoring
an alliance with France and those supporting England. In 1582 James was
kidnapped by a group of Protestant nobles headed by William Ruthven, earl
of Gowrie (1541?-84), and was held virtual prisoner until he escaped the
following year.
In 1586, by the Treaty of Berwick, James formed an alliance with his
cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, and the following year, after the
execution of his mother, he succeeded in reducing the power of the great
Roman Catholic nobles. His marriage to Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) in 1589
brought him for a time into close relationship with the Protestants. After
the Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, James repressed the Protestants as strongly
as he had the Catholics. He replaced the feudal power of the nobility with
a strong central government, and maintaining the divine right of kings, he
enforced the superiority of the state over the church.
In 1603 Queen Elizabeth died childless, and James succeeded her as James
I, the first Stuart king of England. In 1604 he ended England's war with
Spain, but his tactless attitude toward Parliament, based on his belief in
divine right, led to prolonged conflict with that body. James convoked the
Hampton Court Conference (1604), at which he authorized a new translation
of the Bible, generally called the King James Version. His undue severity
toward Roman Catholics, however, led to the abortive Gunpowder Plot in
1605. James tried unsuccessfully to advance the cause of religious peace
in Europe, giving his daughter Elizabeth in marriage to the elector of the
Palatinate, Frederick V (1596-1632), the leader of the German Protestants.
He also sought to end the conflict by attempting to arrange a marriage
between his son, Charles, and the infanta of Spain, then the principal
Catholic power. When he was rebuffed, he formed an alliance with France
and declared war on Spain, thus contributing to the flames he had tried to
quench. James I died at the Theobalds in Hertfordshire on March 27, 1625,
and was succeeded to the throne by his son, Charles I.
- James VI of Scotland was also crowned James I of England.
Although well educated, James appeared foolish, and was known as the "wisest fool in Christendom".
Phobic about assassins, the king wore padded clothes; as if his Scottish accent weren't enough, he had a speech impediment and tics, from head-twitching to constant eye-rolling. Still, he'd romantically come all the way to Norway to rescue his betrothed, when Anne's ship had been pushed off course by a storm (James believed that local witches could control prevailing winds and thus were trying to kill his bride-to-be via shipwreck). Some people get their sexual surprises on the wedding night --anne, the first Dane to make queen of Scotland and later England didn't get hers until after a six-month honeymoon. But it was a doozy. When the fulfilled (or so she thought) twosome arrived back in Edinburgh in 1590, James shyly confessed: "By the way,I"m a wee bit bisexual. "Wee wasn't the word. Over the years, this king had more famous flames than James Brown's band. His tolerant views on sexual partners notwithstanding, the king loved to persecute. He commisioned a King James version of the Bible, mistranslating a key phrase to read: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!" That gave him free rein to carry out a huge number of the most vicious witch-hunts in Europe. Meanwhile, Anne did her level best to produce heirs -- not that easy when he had to coordinate conjugal visits with a long list of the king's "friends." In 1603, she and James became rulers ofEngland. Even at the coronation, the fur statred to fly -- this time over religion, not sex partners. Anne pooh-poohed the offical Anglican Church of England, and refused to take Communion. She eventually became a full-fledgedCatholic, much to James' chagrin. Religious quarrels and sexual politics aside, Anne's greatest gift to her adoptive country was a patron of the arts. She brought famed architect Indigo Jones to England and started a wave of building in the beautiful Jacobean style. This grea tDane supported the arts and was particularly bountiful to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other writers. At her court, Anne held masques (highly popular musica and dramatic performances), taking part in some of them. This frivolity didn't draw muchfire from the king, either. By this time, she and James had reached a separate but equal detante, their quarters diplomatically separated by a mere mile or two of drafty palace corridors.
- CREATED 10TH PRINCE OF WALES 1610; OR "FREDERICK"; "OF STIRLING"; DUKE OF
CORNWALL, ROTHSAY; EARL OF CHESTER; KG
- DIED YOUNG
- Died before Father, unmarried and without issue. {Burke's Peerage} [GADD.GED]
- JamesIEngland
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=3836fbed-069d-43c7-9aae-1acce3d97225&tid=3176682&pid=-1722368115
- KING OF SCOTLAND 1567-1625 AS JAMES VI; ACCEDED THRONE OF ENGLAND 3/24/1603;
(AS JAMES I) RULED FROM 1603-1625 (CROWNED WESTMINSTER); FIRST TO CALL HIMSELF
KING OF GREAT BRITAIN (THIS BECAME OFFICIAL WITH THE ACT OF UNION, 1707)
- James I of England and VI of Scotland (1566-1625), son of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, and grandson of James V, was born in Edinburgh Castle. On the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, James became the king of England and Ireland. His view that he held the kingship by divine right, his impression that Puritanism was the same as Presbyterianism, his wish to tolerate the Roman Catholics, and his determination to exercise absolute power over Parliament, led to conflicts with the House of Commons which continued throughout his reign. From 1612 to 1628 he made strenuous efforts to bring about a marriage between the Infanta of Spain and his son Prince Charles, hoping thereby to secure the peace of Europe. He had already, by his Ulster settlement, begun in 1607, attempted to give peace to Ireland. But the native Irish disliked the settlement, and were not conciliated; and in 1618, the Thirty Years War broke out, and all hopes of the Spanish match were destroyed. Hoping by diplomacy to secure the restoration of Frederick to the palatinate, James sent Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham to Spain. The mission having failed, James made a treaty with Denmark, and arranged a marriage alliance with France. James was known as a good scholar though somewhat pedantic and was so desirous of preserving peace that a vacillating policy made him more or less an object of contempt. [World Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1935]
Notes on James VI and I
He became King of Scots on 24 July 1567 as an infant on his MotherXs abdication. He was crowned 29 July 1567 at Stirling. On 24 March 1603, upon Queen ElizabethXs death, he ascended the throne of England as James the I of England. He was crowned at Westminster on 25 July 1603. It has been suggested that his father was not Darnley but Rizzio, his mother's Italian lover... [GADD.GED]
- James VI of Scotland became James I of Great Britain when he succeeded Elizabeth Tudor who was childless.
- Authorized King James Version of Bible
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1566 - 1625 (58 år)
