King James I of England and VI of Scotland

Standard Name: James I of England and VI of Scotland, King
Used Form: King James the First

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Melvill
EM 's father was Sir James Melvill or Melville of Halhill, Collessie, near Auchtermuchty in Fife, Scotland. Halhill was the site of a tower. Sir James's family was famous for loyalty to the...
Family and Intimate relationships Alice Sutcliffe
Among his successive positions at court, John Sutcliffe was squire to James I . He described himself (or perhaps an older namesake) in 1627 as an ancient servant of the Duke of Buckingham , husband...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Halkett
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.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7.
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Family and Intimate relationships Brilliana, Lady Harley
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Mary Wroth
LMW 's husband succeeded to his father's estate, Loughton House at Loughton in Essex, where the king sometimes visited for hunting.
Hannay, Margaret P. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Ashgate.
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Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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death Queen Elizabeth I
At 3 a.m. QEIdeparted this lyfe, mildly like a lambe, easily like a ripe apple from the tree
Brett, Simon, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber.
(probably of bronchitis or pneumonia); James VI of Scotland succeeded her as James I of England.
Neale, J. E. Queen Elizabeth. J. Cape.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Ephelia
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...
Cultural formation Lady Arbella Stuart
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...

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