Article: James I and VI (England and Scotland) (15661625)

JAMES I AND VI (ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND) (1566 1625)

JAMES I AND VI (ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND) (1566 1625), king of England (as James I, 1603 1625) and Scotland (as James VI, 1567 1625). Born in June 1566, James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley. Rumors abounded from his birth that he was in fact the son of Mary's lover, her Italian secretary David Riccio. Although these were probably unfounded, Mary's marriage to Darnley was certainly an unhappy one: in February 1567 she was involved in the assassination of the feckless Darnley by Scottish lords, led by James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell, at Kirk O'Fields near Edinburgh. Bothwell ...

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