King James I of England and VI of Scotland

Susanna's father, Sir Simon Harvey , was at the top of the grocery business. He had borne the title of Royal Grocer under Elizabeth I and James I , and became Clerk of Greencloth (overseeing...

The first play, Arabella Stuart, is a historical romance set at the court of King James I , following the love affair of Arabella (or Arbella) , the king's cousin and a possible claimant...

AH 's mother, born Jane Drummond , had (like her father) a job as teacher to the children of James I . She died in August 1647.

GLM spent her mature married life at the splendid Apethorpe Hall near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, which her father had acquired from King Edward IV in exchange for other property. The royal connection was continued...

This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James

AF 's third historical biography, King James VI of Scotland, I of England, followed much more closely on the heels of its predecessor than had been the case before.

Fraser quotes here from Eliot 's tribute in Middlemarch to the silent influence of those who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. She opens the book proper with a submerged...

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...

Lady Mary's father, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham , politician and art collector, was well-known as James I 's favourite, and after his assassination on 23 August 1628 remained well-known for the manner of his death.

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.

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...

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...