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unusual facts about King James


King James

"King James", a song on the 2006 album Crime Slunk Scene by Buckethead about the basketball player LeBron James


Anti-Scottish sentiment

English fears and prejudices were deeply rooted, drawing on stereotypes as seen in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles and politically edged material such as George Chapman's Eastward Hoe in 1605, offended King James with its anti-Scottish satire, resulting in the imprisonment of the playwright.

Eikon Basilike

Richard Helgerson suggests that Eikon Basilike represents the culmination of the representational strategies of Charles’ immediate Tudor and Stuart predecessors: the textual absolutism of King James and the "iconic performativity" of Elizabeth.

Five Holy Wounds

The examination of the wounds by "Doubting Thomas" the Apostle, reported only in the Gospel of John at John 20:24-29, was the focus of much commentary and often depicted in art (where the subject has the formal name of the Incredulity of Thomas.

Francis Atterbury

Atterbury's treatise, though highly praised by Bishop Gilbert Burnet, was more distinguished for the vigour of his rhetoric than the soundness of his arguments, and the Papists accused him of treason, and of having, by implication, called King James "Judas".

Nailsea Court

After being interviewed by King James, in the Tower of London, Major Wade was pardoned and returned home to Nailsea.

The Wise Virgins

Believing it to be a religious subject, Ashton, wanting to use this music, chose the parable of the wise and foolish virgins from the Gospel of Matthew 25:1-13.


see also

1st Duke of Buckingham

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

Agustín Leonardo

In 1620 he was a brother in the convent of that order at Puig near Valencia, where he painted for the sacristy four large canvases: Finding the Image of Our Lady at Puig, Siege and Surrender of Valencia to King James; and the Battle of the Puig in which St. George fought with Christians.

Ballylongford

King James 1 restored the castle to the O’Connors in 1607 but in 1651 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, it was again captured, this time by Cromwellian forces under Edmund Ludlow.

Battle of Achnashellach

Hector Munro was also made constable of Strome Castle on behalf of the MacDonnells of Glengarry by King James V. Previously Ewen Cameron had been constable of Strome Castle for the MacDonalds of Lochalsh.

Battle of Killiecrankie

The Battle of Killiecrankie (Scottish Gaelic - Cath Raon Ruairidh ) was fought between Highland Scottish clans supporting King James VII of Scotland (also known as James II of England) and troops supporting King William of Orange on 27 July 1689, during the first Jacobite uprising.

Benedetto Gennari II

Gennari had to leave England when King James was dethroned; he followed James's court to Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1689.

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.

Constitution of Barbados

In 1625 the English landed at Barbados and carved the term 'For King James of E. and this island' on a tree, then some personal items were left behind, and the ship's crew returned to England to notify The Crown and to seek initial settlers.

Dakins

William Dakins ( ? - 1607), English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Divinity and one of the translators of the King James Bible

Dutch Savage

He later became an administrator for his official website (Dutch Savage.com) and hosted a program called "Dutch's Corner", where he taught King James Scripture, on Public-access television out of Portland, Oregon.

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.

Janine Mellor

As a child Mellor was schooled at Lepton County Primary School, King James's School at Almondbury and Greenhead College.

Kyne

The "Wild Geese" were members of the Irish army led by Patrick Sarsfield, who, by the terms of the treaty of Limerick in 1691, were given the choice of death or exile with the Stuart King James II in France.

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.

Lord Lovat

(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)

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.

Mariota, Countess of Ross

After the return of King James the latter destroyed the power of the Albany Stewarts, executing the Albany's son and successor Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany.

Matthew 1:25

Older and more puritanical translations, such as the King James Version, often bowdlerized this passage using more euphemistic terms.

New King James Version

According to the preface of the New King James Version (p. v-vi), the NKJV uses the 1967/1977 Stuttgart edition of the Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament, with frequent comparisons made to the Ben Hayyim edition of the Mikraot Gedolot published by Bomberg in 1524–25, which was used for the King James Version.

Order of Montesa

King James II persuaded Pope John XXII to permit him to regroup the Templar properties in Aragon and Valencia, and to create a new military order not essentially differing from that of the Templars, which should be charged with the defence of the frontier against the Moors and the pirates.

Revolutionary breach of legal continuity

The most recent successful revolutionary breach in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, was the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 which replaced King James II of England and Ireland (King James VII of Scotland) with the joint sovereignty of his son-in-law King William III of England (King William II of Scotland) and daughter Queen Mary II of England (and Scotland).

Richard Mocket

Late in 1617 Sir Dudley Carleton reported to Thomas Lake the circulation of a Dutch book Weeg-schaal by Jacob Taurinus, contrasting King James's actions at the Hampton Court Conference to his advocacy of a council in the Netherlands.

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.

Thomas Livingston

Thomas was never bishop of Dunkeld in anything but name, so had no revenue, although King James did make him Abbot of Coupar Angus in commendam.

Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton

He is generally credited as author of the original lyrics of Lillibullero, which "rhymed King James out of England".

William Dunbar

His allegory The Thrissil and the Rois commemorated the marriage of Margaret of England to King James IV in 1503 while the "Eulogy to Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny" welcomed the arrival of a distinguished Franco-Scottish soldier as the French ambassador in 1508.