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James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and Annabella Drummond.
Soon after James's marriage in 1589, [36] verses made reference to rumours about the King's sexual behaviour, calling James "a buggerer, one that left his wife all night intactam [i.e., untouched, a virgin]". [35] [9] [37] [38] When James ascended the English throne in 1603, an epigram circulated in London: "Elizabeth was King: now James is ...
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (/ ˈ v ɪ l ər z / VIL-ərz; 20 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), [1] [2] was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts.He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I. [3]
James VI and I was baptised Roman Catholic, but brought up Presbyterian and leaned Anglican during his rule. He was a lifelong Protestant , but had to cope with issues surrounding the many religious views of his era, including Anglicanism , Presbyterianism , Roman Catholicism and differing opinions of several English Separatists .
Benjamin Woolley is an author, media journalist and television presenter. [1]In 2018, he published The King's Assassin, [2] about the affair between James VI and I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
James was born at Montpellier as the only son of Peter II of Aragon and Marie of Montpellier. [2] As a child, James was made a pawn in the power politics of Provence, where his father was engaged in struggles helping the Cathar heretics of Albi against the Albigensian Crusade led by Simon IV de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who were trying to exterminate them.
James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327) James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu; James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347) James I of Cyprus (1334–1398), also titular king of Armenia and Jerusalem; James I of Scotland (1394–1437) James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scotland and also King of England and Ireland