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Há 5 dias · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Há 3 dias · In 1603, James VI King of Scots inherited the throne of the Kingdom of England and left Edinburgh for London where he would reign as James I. The Union was a personal or dynastic union, with the crowns remaining both distinct and separate – despite James' best efforts to create a new "imperial" throne of "Great Britain".
Robert Douglas was given his brother's place at court, and became Master of the Horse to Prince Henry, a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James VI and I and Charles I and Master of the Household to Charles I. Douglas was sent with to France with a gift of horses in July 1607. He was knighted in 1609.
Há 4 dias · Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49), whose authoritarian rule and quarrels with Parliament provoked a civil war that led to his execution. He carried on the belief in royal absolutism that was advocated by his father, James I, who began the antagonistic relationship with Parliament during his reign.
Há 4 dias · Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England his son, King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud, sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland. The 1637 prayer book was not, however, the 1559 book but one much closer to that of 1549, the first book of Edward VI.
Há 2 dias · Key words and concepts – inter alia, Britain, union, empire, Englishman, Scot – acquired new meaning and relevance, as James VI and I’s accession gave birth to a political configuration that, since the marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV in 1503, had (in Gordon Donaldson’s judicious phrase) ‘never been a remote contingency.’
Há 2 dias · One could quite easily omit two of the book’s six chapters (chapters 4 and 6). These case studies provide useful scaffolding, but without them Hunter’s tree would still stand. The Decline of Magic does not begin, as one might expect, with the Royal Society but with John Wagstaffe’s The Question of Witchcraft Debated (1669, 2 nd enlarged ed. 1671).
