A Monument to Succession

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Nadine Akkerman
Keyword(s):  
James I ◽  
James I Of England

This chapter begins by describing the monumentalisation of Elizabeth Stuart's grandmother Mary, Queen of Scots, on October 14, 1612. On October 16, the German Prince Frederick V arrived at Gravesend with one purpose in mind: to marry England's only princess, the daughter of a Scot and a Dane. However, the death of Elizabeth Stuart's brother Henry refocused attention on the problem of the succession, a problem that Elizabeth I's secretary Robert Cecil had sought to deal with in 1601 when he opened negotiations with King James over the fate of England's crown. The chapter details how Elizabeth I's refusal to indicate an heir caused problems and fear of a possible power vacuum. Reports vary as to her final words, but at some point the decision was made that, as expected, James VI of Scotland was to be crowned James I of England. When the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, made many of James's subjects fear for the succession as they had during the final years of his predecessor's reign, they would not look to Henry's brother Charles, the male heir, but to his elder sister, Elizabeth. The chapter then recounts Elizabeth Stuart's childhood and her transformation from Scottish to English Princess.

Millennial Alexander in the Making of Aceh

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-276
Author(s):  
Su Fang Ng
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
James I ◽  
James I Of England

This chapter examines how the Acehnese appropriated Alexander the Great as a model of kingship and imitated Melaka in fashioning a royal mythic genealogy going back to Iskandar Zulkarnain. The discussion focuses on one Acehnese sultan, Sultan Iskandar Muda (r. 1607–36), whose name means Alexander the Younger and whose reign is considered Aceh’s golden age. The chapter explores Aceh’s parallel literary allusions to Alexander, incorporated into local literary genres, through an analysis of Iskandar Muda’s biography, Hikayat Aceh. It shows how Hikayat Aceh employs tropes of Timurid-Alexandrian kingship that are also found in diplomatic letters to European kings, including James I of England. It also describes Hikayat Aceh’s understanding of diplomatic relations as a complex entanglement and how the Acehnese turned to the global tradition of Alexander to reflect on intercultural relations with foreign others.

The Accession of James Stuart and the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1603–1610

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-333
Author(s):  
Michael Questier
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
James I ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Papal Authority ◽  
British State ◽  
James I Of England

The accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of England and Great Britain triggered a series of negotiations as to what the new British polity would be like and how far the Elizabethan settlement of religion might be subject to alteration. James manipulated the agendas of a range of interest groups in order to remodel both the court and, in some sense, to remake the (British) State. One crucial aspect of that process was the making of peace with Spain and an attempt to shadow the major European royal houses without getting drawn into the political conflicts which replaced the wars which had concluded in 1598. But the attempt to maintain a quasi-nonconfessional mode of politics inevitably encountered a Protestant critique of the king and court which James sought to defuse by tacking his public pronouncements on papal authority to his, arguably, absolutist readings of royal power.

The Percy-“Fisher” Controversies and the Ecclesiastical Politics of Jacobean Anti-Catholicism, 1622–1625

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy H. Wadkins
Keyword(s):  
Word Of God ◽  
James I ◽  
The Church ◽  
James I Of England

Theologically and ecclesiologically James I of England was a “Gentleman of Wide Swallow.” Although he did not possess the type of skepticism that later emerged in post-Restoration latitudinarianism, he did endorse as orthodox only those essential doctrines which Christians had agreed upon in the early centuries of the church, which were grounded in the “expresse word of God” and given their most basic formulation in the creeds. The king viewed himself as an irenic monarch, one who could bring peace to Christendom by promoting an accommodation to these essentials and compromise between conflicting parties. This was an ecumenical approach to religion for his day, and he believed he could help disagreeing Christians “meet in the middest which is the center and perfection of all things.”

New Poems by James I of England

1913 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
T. F. Henderson ◽  
Allan F. Westcott
Keyword(s):  
James I ◽  
James I Of England
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