King James I of England and VI of Scotland

LA published another 2-volume work of cultural history: Memoirs of the Court of King James the First.

This expedition seems to have constituted involving herself in Court politics in connection with the succession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne as James I . She travelled (like other ladies) to...

EOB pursued the topic of lives of female monarchs in Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia , Daughter of King James the First.

Her father, who at the time of her birth was Sir Edward Conway and lieutenant governor of the British garrison at Brill, already had a distinguished military career behind him and went on to be...

As lady-in-waiting to Anne of Denmark , James I 's queen, from 1607, CB became for the last two years of her short life part of the court's social circle.

Coombe Abbey: An Historical Tale of the Reign of James the First, a story about the kidnapping of the young Elizabeth of Bohemia that was planned to accompany the gunpowder plot of 1605, became...

The king undertook to mediate on the estates which LAC claimed; she told him she would not accept a verdict against her.

Mother and daughter felt completely assured of LAC 's right to the Clifford property, as well as to four castles in Westmorland that had formed part of her mother's jointure (that is, property allotted to...

Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) and her husband Sir John Davies returned to England from Ireland; he had fallen out with James I and lost his job.

The earliest known tract or prophecy by Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) seems to have begun with a commentary on books 7-12 of the Book of Daniel, which she meant to present to...

The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...

Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston ) with...

At 3 a.m. QEIdeparted this lyfe, mildly like a lambe, easily like a ripe apple from the tree (probably of bronchitis or pneumonia); James VI of Scotland succeeded her as James I of England.

QEI wrote twenty surviving letters to her cousin and eventual successor, James VI of Scotland , whose mother she held so long in captivity.

If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced...