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James, second surviving son of King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, was born at St James's Palace in London on 14 October 1633. [7] Later that same year, he was baptized by William Laud, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. [8]
Despite his Catholicism, James became king in 1685 with widespread backing in all three of his kingdoms. In June 1685, he quickly crushed Protestant risings in Scotland and England, but was forced into exile less than four years later. [2]
In 1611, after seven years of work, the 47 scholars who produced the King James Version [6] of the Bible drew extensively from Tyndale's original work and other translations that descended from his. [7] One estimate suggests that the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's words and the first half of the Old Testament 76%.
Portrait of James when Duke of York in 1684, by Godfrey Kneller. Mary of Modena in c. 1687 after her coronation as queen consort, a portrait by Godfrey Kneller.. James's predecessor and elder brother, King Charles II, had come to the throne in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, which followed the English Civil Wars, the execution of Charles I and the five year republic known as The Protectorate.
The coronation of James I and his wife Anne as king and queen of England and Ireland was held on 25 July 1603 at Westminster Abbey. [1] James had reigned as king of Scotland since 1567. [2] Anne was anointed and consecrated with prayers alluding to Esther, the Wise Virgins, and other Biblical heroines. [3]
An early KECA-TV logo slide from the 1950s. Channel 7 first signed on the air under the call sign KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. [2] It was the last television station licensed to Los Angeles operating on the VHF band to debut and the last of ABC's five original owned-and-operated stations to make its debut, after San Francisco's KGO-TV, which signed on four months earlier.
Charles I was proclaimed "King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland" at the Mercat cross of Edinburgh. In his later years King James was sometimes immobilised by illnesses. In April 1619 he had to travel in a litter, and then was carried in a chair. [3] Although King James became increasingly infirm, he continued to ride and hunt.
Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James and Anne of Denmark, lived at St James's Palace until his death in 1612. The gardens were improved for him by Alphonsus Fowle. [ 8 ] A riding school, one of the first in England, was built for Henry at St James's Palace between 1607 and 1609, and then a library with sculptural ...