James I (1394–1437) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
... I ( 1394–1437 ), King of Scotland and poet : imprisoned in London ( City : The Tower) and Windsor Castle; assassinated in Perth . The Kingis Quair 1783...
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World Encyclopedia
... I ( 1566–1625 ) King of England ( 1603–25 ) and, as James VI , king of Scotland ( 1567–1625 ). Son of Mary, Queen of Scots , he acceded to the Scottish throne as an infant on his mother's abdication. In 1589 , he married Anne of Denmark. He inherited the English throne on the death ( 1603 ) of Elizabeth I , and thereafter confined his attention to England. James supported the Anglican Church, thus antagonizing the Puritans , and sponsored the publication ( 1611 ) of the Authorized, or King James , Version of the Bible . The Gunpowder Plot (...
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Spencer Weinreich
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...King James VI and I (Berkeley, 1984). J. P. Sommerville (ed.), Political Writings (Cambridge, 1994). J. Wormald , ‘James VI and I: Two Kings or One?’, History 68 (1983), 187–209. K. Fincham and P. Lake , ‘The Ecclesiastical Polity of King James I’, Journal of British Studies 24 (1985), 169–207. K. Fincham , Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I (Oxford, 1990). W. B. Patterson , King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge, 1997). R. Lockyer , James VI and I (London, 1998). J. Doelman , King James I and the...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... I [Na] King of Scotland of the House of Stewart from 1404 . Born 1394 , son of Robert III . Married Joan Beaufort , daughter of John, earl of Somerset . He was assassinated in 1437 , aged 42, having reigned 30...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... I ( 1394–1437 ) King of Scotland. In 1406 , he was captured by an English ship while on his way to France. He was detained in England until 1424 , but was well educated and became part of Henry IV's household; he was a captive at the same time as another famous literary hostage, Charles d'Orléans . In 1424 he married Lady Joan Beaufort , the granddaughter of John of Gaunt , who is the heroine of James's famous Boethian and semi‐autobiographical poem The Kingis Quair , which he may have composed on his return to Scotland, and in which he...
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World Encyclopedia
... I ( 1394–1437 ) King of Scotland ( 1406–37 ). His father, Robert III , sent him to France for safety but he was intercepted by the English ( 1406 ). He was not ransomed until 1424 . James then restored royal authority by ruthless methods. He carried out reforms of the financial and judicial systems and encouraged trade. His campaign against the nobility made him many enemies, and he was assassinated at...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... I ( 1394–1437 ) King of Scotland. Held captive in England until 1406–24 , at the same time as Charles d'Orléans . In 1424 he married Lady Joan Beaufort , the granddaughter of John of Gaunt, who is the heroine of James's famous Boethian and semi‐autobiographical poem The Kingis Quair . The account of his assassination at the hands of Sir Robert Graham was translated by John Shirley ( c. 1366–1456...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... I ( VI of Scotland ) [Na] King of the House of Stuart from 1603 . Born 1566 , son of Mary, Queen of Scots , and granddaughter of Margaret Tudor , elder daughter of Henry VII , and Henry Stewart , Lord Darnley . Married Anne , daughter of Frederick II of Denmark. He died in 1625 , aged 58, having reigned 22...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... I ( James VI of Scotland ) ( 1566–1625 ) King of England 1603–25 , and son of Mary Queen of Scots. His belief in witchcraft, expounded in his Demonology ( 1597 ), may have influenced William Shakespeare 's Macbeth . He is reputedly the author of True Lawe of Free Monarchies ( 1598 ), a reply to the argument of George Buchanan that the king is elected by and responsible to the people. His Basilikon Doron ( 1599 ), precepts on the art of government, was addressed to his son, the future Charles I . He also wrote a polemic against...
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The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
..., according to the king's own testimony, which many doubted, he was lured by the Gowrie brothers to Perth, locked in a turret and told to prepare to die. It must have been with some relief that James travelled south in 1603 , where his new subjects attempted to blow him up two years later. James VI and I . The anxious expressions in many portraits of James VI and I may reflect the hazardous life he had led, exposed to dangers and plots. ‘He tormented himself’, wrote Sir John Oglander, ‘with fear of some sudden mischief’, and his doublets were padded against...
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Norman Macdougall
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... I ( 1394–1437 ), king of Scots ( 1406–37 ). Contemporary views of the style and kingship of James I were sharply divided. Abbot Bower described James as ‘our lawgiver king’; Sir Robert Graham saw him as ‘a tyrant, the greatest enemy the Scots or Scotland might have’; and the pope’s emissary, the bishop of Urbino, claimed that the murdered king had died a martyr. James was the third son of Robert III ( 1390–1406 ) and was born in July 1394 . By the age of 8, he was the sole surviving male and heir to the throne. An elder brother Robert was dead;...
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Stephen Orgel
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...of monarchy in Macbeth , The Winter’s Tale , and All Is True ( Henry VIII ) . King James I and VI, patron of Shakespeare’s acting company from 1603, painted by Mytens, 1621. The portrait characteristically incorporates James’s chosen motto, ‘Beati pacifici’ (‘blessed are the peacemakers’). Ann Ronan Pictures / Heritage Images / Glowimages.com Stephen Orgel Goldberg, Jonathan , James I and the Politics of Literature (1983) Willson, David H. , King James VI and I ...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... I ( James VI of Scotland ) ( 1566–1625 ) King of England 1603–25 , and son of Mary Queen of Scots. His belief in witchcraft, expounded in his Demonology ( 1597 ), may have influenced William Shakespeare 's Macbeth . He is reputedly the author of True Lawe of Free Monarchies ( 1598 ), a reply to the argument of George Buchanan in his De Jure Regni that the king is elected by and responsible to the people. His Basilikon Doron ( 1599 ), precepts on the art of government, disastrous as it turned out, was addressed to his son, the future Charles...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... I ( 1394–1437 ) King of Scotland ( 1406–37 ) . The third son of Robert III , he was shipwrecked and held captive in England from 1406 until his ransom was arranged in 1423 . His rule was firm and effective, particularly once he had arrested most of his opponents who had governed Scotland during his absence, but his policy of reducing the powers of the nobility and making more use of the Scottish Parliament ultimately led to a reaction. In February 1437 he was killed by Sir Robert Graham, leader of a conspiracy against him....
James I (b. 25 July 1394) Quick reference
The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
... I , b. 25 July 1394 , 3rd s. of Robert III and Annabella Drummond ; acc. 4 Apr. 1406 ; m. Joan Beaufort , da. of John Beaufort, earl of Somerset , 2 Feb. 1424 ; issue: Alexander , James , Margaret , Isabella , Joan , Eleanor , Mary , Annabella; d. Perth, 21 Feb. 1437 ; bur. Perth. The only surviving son of Robert III, acceding at the age of twelve but uncrowned, James I spent the first eighteen years of his reign as a prisoner at the English court. His father had dispatched him to France for safety at the beginning of 1406 , but a...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... I ( 1566–1625 ) King James VI of Scotland from 1567 , King of England ( 1603–25 ) . He succeeded Elizabeth I of England, since she had never married and the Tudor dynasty was ended. He was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry, Lord Darnley . As King of Scotland he survived several plots and assassination attempts, while he strengthened the power of the crown over Parliament, Kirk (Church of Scotland), and sectarian religious groups, and fostered good relations with England. As King of England, he lacked the shrewd judgement of his...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... I ( 1566–1625 ), King of England and VI of Scotland. He became King of Scotland in 1567 on the abdication of his mother, Mary , Queen of Scots , and he succeeded to the English throne on Elizabeth I 's death ( 1603 ) by virtue of his mother's descent from Henry VII . On his way to London he was presented by the Puritans with the Millenary Petition . He heard their case at the Hampton Court Conference ( 1604 ); he offered concessions, but he also expressed his opposition to Presbyterianism and upheld the connection between the Divine Right of...
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Brewer's Famous Quotations
...James I James VI of Scotland 1566 1625 Anglo-Scottish King Have I three kingdoms and thou must needs fly into my eye? To a fly. Quoted in John Selden, Table Talk (1689). Compare Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy , Bk 2, Chap. 12 (1759–67): ‘“I'll not hurt thee,” says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room with the fly in his hand … lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke … “go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? – This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”’ Dr Donne's verses are...
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...001 James I ( James VI of Scotland ) 1566 – 1625 British monarch , King of Scotland from 1567 and of England from 1603, son of mary , Queen of Scots, and father of charles i . On James: see henri iv A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. A Counterblast to Tobacco (1604) sin of drunkenness root of all sins A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is...
James I (1566–1625) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...01 James I 1566 – 1625 British monarch , King of Scotland from 1567 and of England from 1603 . On James: see henri iv No bishop, no King. to a deputation of Presbyterians from the Church of Scotland, seeking religious tolerance in England W. Barlow Sum and Substance of the Conference (1604) No bishop , no King No bishop, no king The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods. speech to Parliament, 21 March...
