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• Also Known As : Elizabeth, The Winter Queen
• Occupation: Queen of Bohemia

Elizabeth married King of Bohemia Frederick Wittelsbach, V on 14 Feb 1613 in Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Frederick was born on 26 Aug 1596; died on 29 Nov 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sophia Wittelsbach was born on 13 Oct 1630 in Wassenaer Court, The Hague, Holland; died on 8 Jun 1714 in Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany.

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• Occupation: King of England - reigned 1603 to 1625, And King of Scotland reigned 1567 to 1625
• Stories and Notes: Books
• Stories and Notes: James was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley. He was descended through the Scottish kings from Robert the Bruce, and the English Tudors through his great grandmother Margaret Tudor sister of Henry VIII. His parent’s marriage was short-lived and Darnley was found murdered 8 months after James was born in June 1566. His mother married again, but in 1567 was forced to renounce the throne of Scotland in favour of her infant son. James became King James VI of Scotland aged 13 months in July 1567, and was crowned at Stirling. Mary fled to England where she was eventually executed following Catholic plots against Elizabeth I in 1587. His childhood and adolescence were unhappy, abnormal, and precarious; he had various guardians, whose treatment of him differed widely. His education, although thorough, was weighted with strong Presbyterian and Calvinist political doctrine, and his character – highly intelligent and sensitive, but also fundamentally shallow, vain, and exhibitionist – reacted violently to this. He also sought solace with extravagant and unsavoury male favourites who, in later years, were to have a damaging effect on his prestige and state affairs. A suitable Queen was found for him in Anne of Denmark and they were married in 1589. As King of Scotland, he curbed the power of the nobility, although his attempts to limit the authority of the Kirk (Church of Scotland) were less successful. When Elizabeth I of England died in 1603 unmarried, James moved to London and was crowned King James I of England the first of the Stuart Kings of the combined crowns of England and Scotland. The English courtiers were wary of his Scottish favourites, affairs with male courtiers and uncouth ways. He was however a supporter of literature and arts. William Shakespeare was among the ‘Kings Men’ troupe of actors who performed plays for their patron James. He commissioned the King James Authorized Version of the Bible, published in 1611, which remains one of the most important English translations of the Bible. He initially acted mainly upon the advice of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, but on Salisbury’s death all restraint vanished. His religious policy consisted of asserting the supreme authority and divine right of the crown and suppressing both Puritans and Catholics who objected. Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up Parliament in 1605 produced an anti-Catholic reaction, which gave James a temporary popularity which soon dissipated. His foreign policy aimed primarily at achieving closer relations with Spain was not liked by Parliament who saw Spain as the Old Catholic enemy of the Armada and competitor for world trade. During his reign the East India Company expanded trade bringing spices from the East, and Jamestown was founded in Virginia. His willingness to compromise politically, even while continuing to talk in terms of absolutism, largely accounts for the superficial stability of his reign. However, the effects of many of his actions were long term, becoming fully obvious only after his death. James and Anne had 8 children only three of whom survived infancy. Their eldest son Henry died aged 18 of typhoid, and their 2nd son Charles became King Charles I. The marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Frederic V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia, was to result in the eventual Hanoverian succession to the British throne.
• To Lady Kathleen: 6 x cousin 14 times removed
• Stories and Notes: 1603; What God hath conjoined let no man separate. I am the husband and the whole isle is my lawful wife' - James VI of Scotland who also became James I of England on the union of the crowns of Scotland and England, 1603

James married Anne Oldenburg on 23 Nov 1589 in Oslo, Norway. Anne was born on 14 Oct 1574 in Skanderborg Castle, Jutland, Denmark; died on 4 Mar 1619 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Anne of Denmark

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• Occupation: Lord of Darnley, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ross, Lord Ardmannoch

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On 10 February 1567, the bodies of Henry and his servant at the time were discovered in the orchard of Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where they had been staying. Surrounding Henry and his servant was a cloak, a dagger, a chair and a coat. Henry was dressed only in his nightshirt, suggesting he had fled in some haste from his bedchamber. A violent explosion had occurred that night at the house, but evidence pointed to Henry escaping assassination, only to be murdered when he got outside. There was no sign of stab wounds, gun wounds, bruises or strangulation marks on the body. It is most likely that Henry and his servant were suffocated, There was evidence that Henry and his valet had been strangled and that the explosion was set as an attempt to cover up the murders.

Died:
Murdered by an explosion of Gunpowder

Henry married Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart on 29 Jul 1565 in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of King of Scotland James Stuart, V and Mary, of Lorraine) was born on 7 Dec 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, United Kingdom; died on 8 Feb 1587 in Fotheringhay Castle, Fotheringhay, Northampton, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Mary (Queen of Scots)
• Occupation: 1542 to 1567; Queen of Scotland

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Occupation:
Her rules was opposed by a confederation of Scottish nobles, headed by her bastard brother, the Regent Moray, and to these she was forced to surrender at Carberry Hill 15 Jun 1567. The Queen was compelled to sign a formal resignation of the crow n to her son James. She escaped and fought the battle of Langside 13 May 1568. She fled to England but was captured and executed after 19 years in prison.

Died:
executed

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• Occupation: King of Scotland reigned 1513 to 1542

James married Mary, of Lorraine. Mary was born on 22 Nov 1515 in Bar-le-Duc, , Lorraine, France; died on 10 Jun 1560 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Mary de Guise