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Single Person record details
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Person Code
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NA15889
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Forenames
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James
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Surname
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Stewart
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Dates
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1566-1625
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Epithet
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James VI and I King of Great Britain and Ireland
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James VI was born in Edinburgh Castle in 1566, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), and her second husband, Lord Darnley (1545-1567). As Mary was forced to abdicate shortly after his birth, he acceded to the Scottish throne as an infant and was brought up to be distanced from his mother. He was learned, taught by some of the best tutors available in the Scottish Humanist school, but also deeply superstitious, secretive and something of a misanthropist. He married Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) in 1590, though he continued to have male favourites, and inherited the English crown from Elizabeth I in 1603. Eager to reconcile rather than divide, he kept both countries peaceful during the Thirty Years? War, and died in 1625.
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James VI, King of Scotland
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Associated records
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GB231/MS 142 | James I & VI: 'A paraphrase of the Revelation of the Apostle John, with historical table' | Early 17th century | GB231/MS 3136 | James VI: Paraphrase on the Book of Revelation | c 1586 | GB234/GD1/240 | James VI letters to Robert Bruce minister of the Evangel at Edinburgh | 1589-1669 | GB234/GD1/294 | James VI, charters and miscellenous documents | 1488-1620 | GB234/GD1/318 | Letter from King James VI on hawks in Orkney and Shetland | 1611 |
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