He is one of those confusing ones... King James VI and I. James Charles Stuart became King James VI of Scotland when he was one year old. Many years later, on March 24, 1603, he became King James I of England. He lived in a time of immense turmoil. There was ongoing animus between the English and the Scottish; violent conflicts between the Catholics and Protestants; friction between the Highlanders and lowland Scots; growing Puritanism; witch trials; the establishment of colonies in America and the Plantation of Ulster; plagues; and the political turmoil caused by the doctrine of the Devine Right of Kings. He was even kidnapped for a time. Yet he survived and lived to age 58.
He is my 5th cousin 12 times removed.
