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James VI and I was a hugely significant Stewart king. But he has been overshadowed by his notorious relations. His predecessor in Scotland was his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. In England, his cousin, Elizabeth I, and finally his successor in both kingdoms, Charles I.

Who was James VI and I?

Born in 1566, James VI and I was the product of Mary’s ill-fated marriage to Henry, Lord Darnley. Darnley’s assassination in early 1567, and Mary’s subsequent over-hasty marriage to one of its perpetrators, Lord Bothwell, triggered events that led to Mary’s downfall.

James VI became king of Scotland in 1567 when Mary was forced to abdicate. On the death of Elizabeth in 1603, he became James I of England. He is thus known as James VI and I.

In 1590 he married Anna, the sister of the Danish king, Christian IV. They had numerous children, three of whom survived infancy. Henry, who died after a short illness in 1612, Charles who was to succeed James, and Elizabeth, who married Frederick, elector of Palatine, and the swiftly deposed King of Bohemia. Romantically she has become known as the Winter Queen.

Unlike his mother or his son Charles, James died of natural causes in his own bed in 1625.

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James VI and I
Portrait attributed to Bathroom de Critz, c. 1605
Reign	24 Parade 1603 – 27 Stride 1625
Coronation	25 July 1603
Predecessor	Elizabeth I
Successor	Charles I
Reign	24 July 1567 – 27 Stride 1625
Coronation	29 July 1567
Predecessor	Mary
Successor	Charles I
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Born	19 June 1566 Edinburgh Castle, Capital, Scotland
Died	27 Tread 1625 (aged 58) Theobalds Backtoback, Hertfordshire, England
Burial	7 May 1625 Westminster Abbey
Spouse	Anne weekend away Denmark ​ ​ (m. ; died )​
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House	Stuart
Father	Henry Painter, Lord Darnley
Mother	Mary, Queen near Scots
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Early Years

The birth of James Stuart at Edinburgh Castle on June 19, 1566, came at a tumultuous time in Scotland’s history. His Catholic mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, ruled a kingdom in the grips of the Protestant Reformation; his English father, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was estranged from Mary, who was frustrating his political ambitions at court. Indeed, three months earlier Darnley had participated in the murder of Mary’s secretary, David Rizzio, in the pregnant queen’s presence, a crime that she feared was part of a plot against her as well. Darnley refused to attend James’s baptism, a lavish ceremony held on December 17, 1566, in the chapel at Stirling Castle, but he and Mary seem to have reconciled enough to be living together again a few months later. On February 10, 1567, a gunpowder explosion destroyed Darnley’s lodgings at Kirk o’ Field; his strangled corpse lay in the back garden. Suspicion fell upon the queen and her close advisor, James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell, whom Mary married on May 15, 1567. A fight for control of the kingdom ensued, and on July 24, 1567, Mary Stuart abdicated in favor of her son. Crowned King James VI in a Protestant service at Stirling on July 29, 1567, the thirteen-month-old James became, as he la