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4 unusual facts about James I


James I. Dungan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-third Congress in 1892.

He received an academic education at the local academy at Denmark, Iowa, and at the college at Washington, Iowa.

James I. Robertson, Jr.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Robertson to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, a federal committee that was foundering under the pressures of regional differences and the emerging civil rights movement, unable to organize a dignified commemoration of the war era.

James I. Roosevelt

On May 30, 1831 in Paris, Roosevelt married Cornelia Van Ness, a daughter of Cornelius P. Van Ness and Rhoda Savage.


1113–15 Balearic Islands expedition

The only surviving copy of the treaty between Pisa and Barcelona is found interpolated in a charter of James I granted to Pisa in 1233.

Abdet

The population is primarily of Arab origin, as it was given to Vidal de Sarrià in 1264 by James I.

Abraham van Blijenberch

He worked in London from 1617 to 1622, where he painted portraits of members of the court of James I, including Prince Charles (later Charles II), the Lord Chamberlain William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, William Drummond of Hawthornden and Ben Jonson.

Antonius Thysius

Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus then disputed the interpretation, and pointed out that James I had refused to put the resulting Lambeth Articles on the same footing as the Thirty-Nine Articles.

Arthur Clifford

After publishing the Sadler Papers, Clifford made a search at Tixall for the papers of Walter, Lord Aston, ambassador in Spain under James I and Charles I.

Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard

He was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Forbes of Corse in Aberdeenshire; who went to Ireland in 1620 with the Master of Forbes's regiment, of which he was lieutenant-colonel, and was granted large estates in Leitrim and Longford by James I.

Baron Strabolgi

The eighteenth-century gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Dixie was heiress to the traitor George Brooke (who was attainted and executed for his part in the Bye Plot against James I) and his wife Elizabeth, eldest sister of the last Baron Burgh; Brooke had been brother and heir to the last Baron Cobham of Kent, who had been attainted for his part in the Main Plot.

Battle of Brignais

The Battle of Brignais was fought on 6 April 1362, between forces of the Kingdom of France under count Jacques de Bourbon,from whom the later royal Bourbons descend, and the Free Companies, led by Petit Meschin and Seguin de Badefol.

College of All Saints, Maidstone

Much of the Cobham family's estate was forfeited to the Crown in 1603 when his grandson, Henry Brooke, the 11th Baron Cobham, was charged with high treason for his part in the Main Plot against James I.

Dalkeith

Sir James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, and his wife Joanna, daughter of James I, are buried in the choir and have stone effigies.

English royal mistress

James I was followed by his son Charles I, who was also extremely attached to Villiers, until the latter was murdered by John Felton on 23 August 1628.

Eudoxia Laskarina

After the Palaiologan usurpation of the imperial throne, both ladies (dowager empress Constance and Eudokia) fled, travelling the same route from Constantinople to Tende and Sicily respectively and, years later, both sought protection at the kingdom of Aragon under king James I.

Fifth-rate

The rating system in the British (originally English) Royal Navy as originally devised had just four rates, but early in the reign of Charles I the original fourth rate (derived from the "Small Ships" category under his father, James I) was divided into new classifications of fourth, fifth, and sixth rates.

Geneviève Petau de Maulette

Family tradition holds that Lady Glenluce served as the French instructor to the eldest daughter of King James I and Queen Anne of Denmark, Princess Elizabeth.

Harbottle

In 1605 James I granted the castle and manor to George Home, Lord Treasurer of Scotland, but thereafter the castle fell into decay and much of its masonry was used in other buildings.

Ightham Mote

He was succeeded by his nephew, also Sir William, who is notable for handing over the keys of Berwick-upon-Tweed to James I on his way south to succeed to the throne.

James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran

Through his mother Margaret Douglas he was descended from James IV through an illegitimate daughter, and Joan of Scotland, daughter of James I.

John Pym

John Pym (1584 – 8 December 1643) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of Kings James I and then Charles I.

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox

Through his son Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Stewart was the great-great-great-grandfather of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of his first cousin Mary, Queen of Scots and father of James VI, King of Scotland, who became James I, King of England.

Martin Lister

He was the nephew of both James Temple, the regicide and also of Sir Matthew Lister, physician to Anne, queen of James I, and to Charles I.

Mary Carey, Lady Carey

She married Pelham Carey, son of Henry, 4th Lord Hunsdon (whom King James I had created Viscount Rochford on 6 July 1621; he was later created 1st Earl of Dover by King Charles I).

Matthias de l'Obel

Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616) was born in Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, France, and died at Highgate, London, England after serving as a physician to William the Silent and James I of England.

Maurice of the Palatinate

Prince Maurice of the Palatinate KG (17 December 1620 – September 1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine, was the fourth son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of James I, King of England and Scotland and Anne of Denmark.

Mildred Cooke

In 1563 a third son was born, Robert, who succeeded his father at court and was created Earl of Salisbury by James I.

Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Barnewall

The latter, returning to Ireland, was settled at Drimnagh, near Dublin, where his posterity remained until the reign of James I.

Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany

Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (c. 1340 – 3 September 1420), a member of the Scottish royal house, served as Regent (at least partially) to three different Scottish monarchs (Robert II, Robert III, and James I).

Royal Mines Act 1424

The act was passed by the Parliament at Perth on 26 May 1424 in the reign of James I, and was titled "Of mynis of golde and silver".

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

This is shown in his analyses of the characters of James I, Francis Bacon, William Laud, Strafford and Cromwell.

Thomas Bates

Bates was born at Lapworth in Warwickshire, and became a retainer to Robert Catesby, who from 1604 planned to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and inciting a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the English throne.

Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk

Under James I, Howard immediately entered the King's favour, being appointed Lord Chamberlain on 6 April 1603 and a Privy Counsellor on 7 April.

Thomas Overbury

Miriam Allen deFord wrote The Overbury Affair, which involves events during the reign of James I of Britain surrounding the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.


see also

1st Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628), favourite of King James I of England

Annabella Gordon

Annabella of Scotland, married name Annabella Gordon, daughter of James I of Scotland

Battle of the Puig

Once back at the Puig, James I received a message from Zayyan offering all the castles from the Turia River to Tortosa and Teruel, the construction of a lavish palace for the king in Saïda Province and the payment of ten thousand besantes annually in return for James' promise to abandon his attack of the capital.

Bicton, Devon

The younger daughter Margaret Denys (d.1649) married Sir Arthur Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, carver to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I.

David Bandinel

James I, on the understanding that this arrangement had been formally sanctioned by Elizabeth, confirmed it in the first year of his reign.

Edward Somerset

Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (bef. 1568–1628), English aristocrat, adviser to James I, serving as Lord Privy Seal

Ferryland

The Charter of Avalon was granted to Lord Baltimore by James I. Dated 7 April 1623 it created the Province of Avalon on the island of Newfoundland and gave Baltimore complete authority over all matters in the territory.

Flag of the United Kingdom

The issue was initially raised by Ian Lucas, another Labour MP, who complained that the flag introduced in 1606 following the accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne as James I combined the cross of St George and the saltire of St Andrew.

Franklin D'Olier

He said to Marquis James, "I don't feel welcome down here any more. There are a lot of people in this neighborhood (referring to Wall Street) who used to think I was a pretty descent, respectable business man who knew the rules of the game and played by them. Now they treat me as if I belonged to the I.W.W." (A History of the American Legion" by Marquis James. Pg. 141 Wm Green. 1923.)

Harby, Leicestershire

Rector - 1596-1598 Robert Snoden later became chaplain to James I in 1614, and Bishop of Carlisle in 1616.

Harold Heslop

Heslop attended King James I Grammar School in Bishop Auckland on a scholarship until he was thirteen, then the family moved to Boulby on the north Yorkshire coast.

Humphrey Style

Sir Humphrey Style, 1st Baronet (c. 1596–1659) of Beckenham, Kent, courtier to kings James I and Charles I of England.

Lolol

The church has a painting of Chilean painter Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, a portrait of the appearance of the Virgin of Mercy to King James I of Spain.

Malise Graham, 1st Earl of Menteith

Two months after his receiving the above charter Earl Malise, in November 1427, entered England as a hostage for King James I, and was confined in the castle of Pontefract, whence he was not released until June 17, 1453.

Michael Ochiltree

He had been an "intimate friend" of King Robert III of Scotland and his wife Anabella Drummond, and then James I and his wife Joan Beaufort.

Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England

Robert de Lawedre of Edrington

On 3 February 1424, Sir "Robertus de Lawedre de Bass, chevalier", with 18 men, had a safe-conduct with a host of other noblemen etc., as a hostage for King James I of Scotland at Durham.

Robert Graham

Sir Robert Graham (died 1437), one of the assassins of James I of Scotland

Simon Gribelin

But his most important work was a large engraving on three plates, finished in 1730, of ‘The Apotheosis of James I,’ from the painting by Peter Paul Rubens on the ceiling of the banquet house at Whitehall.

Tizona

Later there developed the common opinion that identified the sword of James I of Aragon, named Tisó, with the one attributed to the Cid in the Cantar de gesta, but this is contrasted with the Llibre dels fets (a series of autobiographical chronicles including James I of Aragon) in which the Tisó is described in detail without any mention of The Cid, most likely owing to a simple coincidence of name.

William Piers

He became chaplain to John King, and in 1609 he was presented by James I to the rectory of Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, which he resigned in 1611 on his collation by Bishop King as Archdeacon of Northolt, which he held till 1632.