King James I :: Papers

King James Iborn June 19, 1566, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotlanddied March 27, 1625, Theobalds, Hertfordshire, EnglandKing of Scotland (as James VI) from 1567 to 1625 and first Stuart index of England from 1603 to 1625, who styled himself king of Great Britain. James was a strong advocate of royal absolutism, and his conflicts with an progressively self-assertive Parliament set the stage for the rebellion against his successor, Charles I.James was the solely son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley. Eight months afterwards Jamess birth his father died when his ho employ was destroyed by an explosion. After her three marriage, to James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, Mary was defeated by rebel Scottish lords and abdicated the thr matchless. James, one year old, became king of Scotland on July 24, 1567 Mary left the kingdom on May 16, 1568, and never saw her son again. During his minority James was surrounded by a small band of the great Sco ttish lords, from whom emerged the 4 successive regents, the earls of Moray, Lennox, Mar, and Morton. There did not exist in Scotland the great disconnection between rulers and ruled that separated the Tudors and their subjects in England. For nine generations the Stuarts had in event been merely the ruling family among many equals, and James all his life contain a feeling for those of the great Scottish lords who gained his confidence.The young king was unplowed fairly isolated only if was given a good program line until the age of 14. He studied Greek, French, and Latin and made good use of a library of classical and religious writings that his tutors, George Buchanan and Peter Young, assembled for him. Jamess didactics aroused in him literary ambitions rarely found in princes but which also tended to make him a pedant.Before James was 12 he had taken the government nominally into his own hands when the Earl of Morton was driven from the regency in 1578. For several years m ore, however, James remained the puppet of contending intriguers and faction leaders. After move under the influence of the Duke of Lennox, a Roman Catholic who schemed to win hind end Scotland for the imprisoned Queen Mary, James was kidnapped by William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, in 1582 and was squeeze to denounce Lennox. The following year James escaped from his Protestant captors and began to succeed his own policies as king.