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Brother became king 9 December 1165 Became king Malcolm IV: David, Earl of Huntingdon: Heir presumptive Younger brother 9 December 1165 Brother became king 1193 Daughter born to king William I: Margaret: Heiress presumptive Eldest daughter 1193 Born 24 August 1198 Brother born Alexander: Heir apparent Son 24 August 1198 Born 4 December 1214 ...
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
James VI of Scotland (born 1566), only child of Mary, Queen of Scots, deceased daughter of James V of Scotland, third son of Margaret; Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Rothesay (born 1594), elder son of the King of Scotland; Prince Charles, Duke of Albany (born 1600), younger son of the King of Scotland
James asserted that hereditary right was superior to statutory provision and, as King of Scotland, was powerful enough to deter any rival. He reigned as James I of England and Ireland, thus effecting the Union of the Crowns, although England and Scotland remained separate sovereign states until 1707. His succession was rapidly ratified by ...
Upon her abdication, her son, fathered by Henry, Lord Darnley, a junior member of the Stewart family, became King as James VI. James VI became King of England and Ireland as James I in 1603 when his cousin Elizabeth I died. Thereafter, although the two crowns of England and Scotland remained separate, the monarchy was based chiefly in England.
James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James III, at the Battle of Sauchieburn, following a rebellion in which the younger James was the figurehead of the rebels.
However, James saw the bishops as the natural allies of the monarchy and frequently came into conflict with the Kirk in his sustained effort to reintroduce an episcopal polity to Scotland. On his succession to the English throne in 1603, James was impressed by the church system he found there, which still adhered to an episcopate and supported ...
The succession to the childless queen of England Elizabeth I was an open question from her accession in 1558 to her death in 1603, when the crown passed to James VI of Scotland, an event known as the Union of the Crowns. While the accession of James went smoothly, the succession had been the subject of much debate for decades.