King james wikipedia
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James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603
| James VI and I | |
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Portrait attributed to John de Critz, c. 1605 | |
| Reign | 24 March 1603 – 27 March 1625 |
| Coronation | 25 July 1603 |
| Predecessor | Elizabeth I |
| Successor | Charles I |
| Reign | 24 July 1567 – 27 March 1625 |
| Coronation | 29 July 1567 |
| Predecessor | Mary |
| Successor | Charles I |
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| Born | 19 June 1566 Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 27 March 1625 (aged 58) Theobalds House, Hertfordshire, England |
| Burial | 7 May 1625 Westminster Abbey |
| Spouse | Anne of Denmark (m. ; died ) |
| Issue more... | |
| House | Stuart |
| Father | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley |
| Mother | Mary, Queen of Scots |
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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. Although he long tri
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Campbeltown, Where the Earl of Argyll Landed in 1685 |
James VII/II lived from 14 October 1633 to 16 September 1701. He became King James VII of Scots and King James II of England and Ireland on 6 February 1685. He (arguably) ceased to be King of England on 22 January 1689; of Scotland on 4 April 1689; and of Ireland when he fled the country after the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
James Stuart, Duke of York and Duke of Albany, was the younger son of Charles I and younger brother of Charles II. He escaped to Holland after the English Civil War and in the 1650s served with both the French and Spanish armies. After the restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, James became Lord High Admiral and commanded the Royal Navy during the Second (1665–1667) and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars (1672–1674). After its capture by the English in 1664, the Dutch territory of New Netherland was renamed New York in his honour; and
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Early Years
The birth of James Stuart at Edinburgh Castle on June 19, 1566, came at a tumultuous time in Scotland’s history. His Catholic mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, ruled a kingdom in the grips of the Protestant Reformation; his English father, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was estranged from Mary, who was frustrating his political ambitions at court. Indeed, three months earlier Darnley had participated in the murder of Mary’s secretary, David Rizzio, in the pregnant queen’s presence, a crime that she feared was part of a plot against her as well. Darnley refused to attend James’s baptism, a lavish ceremony held on December 17, 1566, in the chapel at Stirling Castle, but he and Mary seem to have reconciled enough to be living together again a few months later. On February 10, 1567, a gunpowder explosion destroyed Darnley’s lodgings at Kirk o’ Field; his strangled corpse lay in the back garden. Suspicion fell upon the queen and her close advisor, James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell, whom Mary married on May 15, 1567. A fight for control of the ki
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