King James I of England and VI of Scotland

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...

LMW 's husband succeeded to his father's estate, Loughton House at Loughton in Essex, where the king sometimes visited for hunting.

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...

LH 's father, Sir Allen Apsley, was Lieutenant of the Tower of London under James I . Lucy wrote that he and her mother cared for the prisoners there as if they were their children...

Hester's father, James Ley , was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of...

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.

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...

As a descendant of Henry VII and a niece of Mary Queen of Scots , LAS belonged to the highest possible rank and was close enough to lines of succeession to the thrones both of...