H.M. James I Charles (Stuart), King of Great Britain

1566 - 1625  (58 years)

• Name	James I Charles (Stuart)
  Title	H.M.
  Suffix	King of Great Britain
  Born	19 June 1566	Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Coronation	25 July 1603	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Hereditary Title	25 July 1603 – 27 March 1625  [1]
  	By the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith
  Regnal Name	James I & VI
  Died	27 March 1625	Theobalds Palace, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  Buried	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I202	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	9 June 2018

  
  

  Father	Henry (Stuart), Lord Darnley, 1st Duke of Albany, King Consort of Scots,   b. 7 Dec. 1545,   d. 10 Feb. 1566/67, Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  (Age 21 years)
  Mother	Mary (Stewart), Queen of Scots,   b. 7/8 Dec. 1542, Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire, Scotland ,   d. 8 Feb. 1586/87, Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire, England  (Age 44 years)
  Married	29 July 1565	Holyrood Chapel, Holyrood, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  Family ID	F135	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne (Oldenburg), Princess of Denmark,   b. 12 Dec. 1574, Skanderborg Castle, Jylland, Denmark ,   d. 2 March 1619, Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England  (Age 44 years)
  Married by Proxy	20 Aug. 1589  [1]
  	Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark
  Married	23 Nov. 1589	Old Bishop’s Palace, Oslo, Norway   [1]
  	Married in person Repeated 21 Jan 1590 at Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark [1]
  Children	1. Henry Frederick (Stuart), Prince of Wales,   b. 19 Feb. 1593/94, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland ,   d. 6 Nov. 1612, St. James's Palace, St. James's, London, England  (Age 18 years) + 2. Elizabeth (Stuart), Princess of England,   b. 19 Aug. 1596, Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ,   d. 13 Feb. 1661/62, Leicester House, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, England  (Age 65 years)   3. Margaret Stewart,   b. 24 Dec. 1598, Castle of Dalkeith, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland ,   d. March 1600, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland  (Age 1 years) + 4. H.M. Charles I (Stuart), King of Great Britain,   b. 19 Nov. 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ,   d. 30 Jan. 1649, Palace of Whitehall, London, England  (Age 48 years)   5. Robert Stuart,   b. 18 Jan. 1602, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ,   d. 27 May 1602  (Age 0 years)   6. Mary Stuart,   b. 8 April 1605, Greenwich, Kent, England ,   d. 16 Dec. 1607  (Age 2 years)   7. Sophia Stuart,   b. 22 June 1606, Greenwich, Kent, England ,   d. 23 June 1606  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	9 June 2018
  Family ID	F114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Portrait of James I & VI by Daniel Mytens

  
  

  Heraldry		Royal Arms of England (1603–88, 1702–7) Quarterly, 1st and 4th grand quarters, France Modern and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the shield encircled with the Garter. [The Royal Arms of Scotland are, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules.] Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 213.
  		Royal Arms of Scotland (1603–88, 1702–7)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Burke's Sovereign Families of Europe (Online), https://www.burkespeerage.com/royalFamily_UnitedKingdom.php. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume I, page 82.