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The crisis deepened when a fleet from the Lordship was dispatched to bring James the Fat back from Ulster 'to convey him home that he might be king'. With James's intention to form an alliance with the Ulster O'Donnells of Tyreconnell against the MacDonalds, the English distrusted the Scottish king's motives and tried to bring James the Fat to ...
He sponsored the translation of the Bible into English (later named after him, the Authorized King James Version), and the 1604 revision of the Book of Common Prayer. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Contemporary courtier Anthony Weldon claimed that James had been termed "the wisest fool in Christendom " (wise in small things, foolish otherwise) an epithet ...
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]
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
King James Bible: The Book That Changed the World or KJB: The Book That Changed the World is a 2011 Lionsgate direct-to-video production in which John Rhys-Davies leads viewers on a half-documentary, half theatrical exploration of the socio-political, religious, and historical background and roots for both James I of England and for the King James Version of the Bible which was published four ...
“King James,” a new dramedy at the Mark Taper Forum, is a two-hander about a love triangle of sorts. The unseen third point in this romance, per the title: basketball legend LeBron James ...
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James I of Aragon (1208–1276), surnamed the Conqueror, was the King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and Lord of Montpellier 1213–1276, King of Majorca 1231–1276, and King of Valencia 1238–1276. James II of Aragon (1267–1327), called The Just (Catalan: El Just ), reigned as King James II of Aragon and Velancia and Count of Barcelona 1291 ...