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Note for: James V Stewart King of Scotland, 10 APR 1512 - 14 DEC 1542
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Alias: King James IV of /Scotland/
Occupation: Date: BET. 1488 - 1513
Place: Reigned as King James IV of Scotland
Residence: Place: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Event: Type: Info 3
Date: 21 SEP 1513
Place: King of Scotland 1513-1542
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 21 SEP 1513
Place: Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Place: 1460-1488
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 26 JUN 1488
Place: Scone Abbey, Perhshire
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 26 JUN 1488
Place: Scone Abbey, Perhshire
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 26 JUN 1488
Place: Scone Abbey, Perhshire
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 26 JUN 1488
Place: Scone Abbey, Perhshire
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 26 JUN 1488
Place: Scone Abbey, Perhshire
Event: Type: Unknown-Begin
Date: 21 SEP 1513
Place: Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle
Event: Type: Titles
Date: 26 JUN 1488
Place: King of Scotland; duke of Rothesay (from birth).
Event: Type: Christened
Date: BET. 1513 - 1542
Place: West-Lothian, Scotland
Event: Type: Info 6
Date: BET. 1488 - 1513
Place: See Stirnet Genealogy at http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ss4tz/stewart02.htm & GENEALOGY.EU by Miroslav Marek at http://genealogy.euweb.cz/stuart/stuart1.html & See Burke's Peerage under "Mo
ray". (page 1990, 106th Ed.)
Event: Type: Info 6
Date: BET. 1488 - 1513
Place: See Stirnet Genealogy at http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ss4tz/stewart02.htm & GENEALOGY.EU by Miroslav Marek at http://genealogy.euweb.cz/stuart/stuart1.html & See Burke's Peerage under "Mo
ray". (page 1990, 106th Ed.)
Event: Type: Info 5
Date: BET. 1437 - 1460
Place: See also Royal Genealogies by Denis R. Reid at http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/r19.html#I835
Event: Type: Info 5
Date: BET. 1437 - 1460
Place: See also Royal Genealogies by Denis R. Reid at http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/r19.html#I835
Event: Type: Reigned
Date: BET. 1488 - 1513
Place: Scotland
Event: Type: Reigned
Date: BET. 1437 - 1460
Place: Scotland
Event: Type: Reigned
Date: BET. 1488 - 1513
Place: Scotland
Event: Type: Exiled
Date: 1688
Place: James abdicates and flees to exile in France.
Burial: Date: JAN 1542/43
Place: Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh
Individual Note: [Francis_Hay.ged][Francis_Hay.ged]
Crowned at Scone in 1488, having overthrown his father James III.
James VII King of Scotland also. Died in exile.
King of Scotland. Killed at the battle of Flodden.
James was 17 months when his father was killed. His mother acted as regent until her marriage in 1514 to Archibald, 6th earl of Angus. In that year John Stewart, duke of Albany, became James's protector. In 1525, during the continued strugg le for control of the country, James was taken prisoner by his stepfather. Three years later the escaped and assumed control of Scotland.
Duke of York and Albany,King of Great Britain and Irlane. Arabella Churchill was his mistress. He was exiled in France. Buried at the Church of the English Benedictines, Paris, later transferred to St. Germain-en-Laye. He left the country 11 Dec. 1688 and was declared by Parliament, 28 January 1689, to have abdicated on that day. However, he remained de facto King of Ireland until his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne 1 July 1690.
: DATE WFT Est. 1455-1521
: DATE WFT Est. 1449-1481
Crowned at Scone in 1488, having overthrown his father James III. Killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 as he advanced into England in support of the French and the "Auld Alliance".
Killed by an exploding cannon while he was supervising the siege of Roxburgh Castle in 1460.
Died of his wounds and grief after his defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542.
James V born April 10 1512, died December 14 1542
James V born April 10 1512, died December 14 1542
James V born April 10 1512, died December 14 1542
James IV, King of Scotland 1473-1513 King of Scotland (1488-1513), son and successor of James III. Hewas an able and popular king, and his reign was one of stability andprogress for Scotland. After suppressing an insurrection of discon tentednobles early in his reign, he set about restoring order, improvingadministrative and judicial procedure in the kingdom, and encouragingmanufacturing and shipbuilding. A conflict with Henry VII of England overJames Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, endedwith the conclusion of a seven-year truce in 1497. In 1503, James marriedHenry II ascended (1509) theEnglish throne, relations between Scotland and England deteriorated. In1512, Louis XII of France, already at war with England, urged and secureda renewal of his alliance with the Scottish king. In 1513, James, againstt he counsel of his advisers, invaded England, where at the battle ofFlodden he was killed and the Scottish aristocracy was almostannihilated.
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King from 1437-1460.
Death: died young
BIOGRAPHY: Not for the first time in the former century and a half the heir to throne was of tender years. Perhaps what is more striking is that James was King of Scotland at the age of just seventeen months. A Governor was required to rule , nominally in the interest of the infant king. This Governor was John Duke of Albany, a grandson of James II of Scotland. This governorship led to a bitter dispute as Albany was a staunch Francophile and even spoke French as his first lang uage. This leaning he had towards France was directly opposed by those who preferred the friendship of England. In the end Albany was dismissed as Governor due to him spending more time in France than in Scotland. James now came to power fu lly. At the age of 14 he ordered the suppression of the warring clans and the destruction of the border raiders. Later he fell out with King Henry VIII of England over his apparent leaning towards France. Once more war broke out with the Sc ots being humiliated at the Battle of Solway Moss. With no surviving (legitimate) children and close to death he was told of the birth of perhaps the most famous Stewart of all, his daughter Mary Stewart. James had married in Paris in 1537. His bride on this occasion was Princess Madeleine de Valois of France. The marriage was short-lived as Madeleine died just 6 months later. His second marriage, to Marie de Guise Lorraine, brought him three children. Unfortunately both Jame s and Arthur died in infancy. He was survived by Mary however.
BIOGRAPHY: Following the murder of his father James came to the throne of Scotland at the age of fifteen. He had been with the rebellious lords who had defeated his father at the Battle of Sauchieburn and came to the throne not as naive as many of his contemporaries. Wars with England was becoming something of a habit and James IV can claim to have been involved in two of them. The first was in support of the impostor Perkin Warbeck. Warbeck claimed to be a survivor of the mu rders of the princes in the tower and therefore the rightful claimant to the English throne. This was false but James was not to know this. He attacked England and was only stopped by Henry VII offering his daughter in marriage to James. Ja mes accepted. Once more the tide of decision turned and James once again attacked England. This invasion was doomed and at Flodden field in September 1513 the power base of Scotland was virtually wiped out. James' marriage to Margaret Tudor brought six babies into the world, of which only two survived to a fruitful age; James and Alexander.
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Reigned 1437-1460
Reign 1488-1513
Reigned 1513-1542
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BIOGRAPHY: Like many of his predecessors James II came to the throne at an early age. He was one of twins, with his brother Alexander dying in infancy. James II reign was stained throughout by warfare between the Scots and the English and b etween the Scots themselves. He had to destroy the Earls of Douglas through trickery and the only time the Scots were anything like unified was when they were fighting the English. The end of James' turbulent reign came in 1460 when he died , fittingly enough, at the siege of English held Roxburgh Castle. James was married once, to the daughter of the Duke of Guelders. She gave him six children; James, Alexander, David, John, Mary and Margaret.
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BIOGRAPHY: King of England and Scotland, who succeeded his brother Charles II in 1685. James was born in St James's Palace in 1633. Several attempts were made to exclude him from the succession because he was a Catholic, especially followin g the alleged popish plot to murder King Charles. James's pro-Catholic policies aroused intense opposition, and when he produced a Catholic heir (James Francis Edward , the Old Pretender) open revolt broke out. He was deposed in 1688 and th e glorious revolution put his Protestant son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, on the throne. James's attempt to regain the throne was thwarted at the Battle of the Boyne,after which he spent the rest of his life in exile in France.
King of Scotland
James I (of England)
James I (of England) (1566-1625), king of England (1603-25) and, asJames VI, king of Scotland (1567-1625).
Born on June 19, 1566, in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, James was the onlyson of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Lord Darnley. WhenMary was forced to abdicate in 1567, he was proclaimed king of Scotland.A succession of regents ruled the kingdom until 1576, when James becamenominal ruler. The boy king was little more than a puppet in the hands ofpolitical intriguers until 1581. In that year, with the aid of hisfavorites, James Stuart, earl of Arran, and Esm t, duke of Lennox,James assumed actual rule of Scotland. Scotland was at that time divideddomestically by conflict between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics,and in foreign affairs by those favoring an alliance with France andthose sup porting England. In 1582 James was kidnapped by a group ofProtestant nobles headed by William Ruthven, earl of Gowrie, and was heldvirtual prisoner until he escaped the next year.
In 1586, by the Treaty of Berwick, James formed an alliance with hiscousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, and the following year, after theexecution of his mother, he succeeded in reducing the power of the greatRoman Catholic nobles. His m arriage to Anne of Denmark in 1589 broughthim for a time into close relationship with the Protestants. After theGowrie conspiracy of 1600, James repressed the Protestants as strongly ashe had the Catholics. He replaced the feudal power of t he nobility with astrong central government, and maintaining the divine right of kings, heenforced the superiority of the state over the church.
In 1603 Queen Elizabeth died childless, and James succeeded her as JamesI, the first Stuart king of England. In 1604 he ended England's war withSpain, but his tactless attitude toward Parliament, based on his beliefin divine right, led to prolonged conflict with that body. James convokedthe Hampton Court Conference (1604), at which he authorized a newtranslation of the Bible, generally called the King James Version. Hisundue severity toward Roman Catholics, however, led to t he abortiveGunpowder Plot in 1605. James tried unsuccessfully to advance the causeof religious peace in Europe, giving his daughter Elizabeth in marriageto the elector of the Palatinate, Frederick V, the leader of the GermanProtestants. He also sought to end the conflict by attempting to arrangea marriage between his son, Charles, and the infanta of Spain, then theprincipal Catholic power. When he was rebuffed, he formed an alliancewith France and declared war on Spain, thus contributing to the flames hehad tried to quench. James I died at the Theobalds in Hertfordshire onMarch 27, 1625, and was succeeded to the throne by his son, Charles I.
NOTES: He was 17 months old when his father (James IV) was killed. Hismother acted as regent until her marriage in 1514 to Archibald, 6th earlof Angus. In 1525, during the continued struggle for control of thecountry, James was taken priso ner by his stepfather. Three years laterthe King escaped and assumed control of Scotland. His uncle, Henry VIII,King of England, tried to induce James to repudiate the authority of theRoman Catholic Church, but James refused, and relations between Englandand Scotland became strained; in 1542 war broke out.
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GIVN James SURN 1V NSFX King BAPM PLAC Reigned 12/6/1488-1513 1 NAME Of the Iron/Belt/ 1 UPDA 2 DATE 26 JUN 1488 2 PLAC Acceded:Scone Abbey, Perthshire Killed at the Battle of Flodden, near Branxton, Northumberland. 10,000 Scots killed along with their King. Believed at Church of St Michael Wood Street City of London His wife petitioned for divorce in 1514 on the grounds her husband was alive and in the Holy Land. His body was kept in a lumber room at Richmond Palace in t he reign of Henry VIII. DATE 9 FEB 2000 TIME 15:36:30 OBJE FORM bmp FILE F:\BK5\Images\Famous People\Jame1380.bmp _SCBK Y _PRIM Y _TYPE PHOTO
GIVN James SURN 1V NSFX King BAPM PLAC Reigned 12/6/1488-1513 1 NAME Of the Iron/Belt/ 1 UPDA 2 DATE 26 JUN 1488 2 PLAC Acceded:Scone Abbey, Perthshire Killed at the Battle of Flodden, near Branxton, Northumberland. 10,000 Scots killed along with their King. Believed at Church of St Michael Wood Street City of London His wife petitioned for divorce in 1514 on the grounds her husband was alive and in the Holy Land. His body was kept in a lumber room at Richmond Palace in the reign of Henry VIII. DATE 9 FEB 2000 TIME 15:36:30 OBJE FORM bmp FILE F:\BK5\Images\Famous People\Jame1380.bmp _SCBK Y _PRIM Y _TYPE PHOTO
GIVN James 11 SURN Stuart NSFX King BAPM PLAC Reigned 22/2/1437-1460 1 NAME Fiery /Face/ 1 UPDA 2 DATE 25 MAR 1437 2 PLAC Acceded: Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scot During his minority Sir Alan Livingston was Regent of Scotland. A regenc y led by the Douglas family ruled until 1449, when James began to govern by himself. In 1460, at the head of an army, he was killed during the siege of Roxburgh Castle, by an exploding cannon
GIVN James 11 SURN Stuart NSFX King BAPM PLAC Reigned 22/2/1437-1460 1 NAME Fiery /Face/ 1 UPDA 2 DATE 25 MAR 1437 2 PLAC Acceded: Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scot During his minority Sir Alan Livingston was Regent of Scotland. A regen cy led by the Douglas family ruled until 1449, when James began to govern by himself. In 1460, at the head of an army, he was killed during the siege of Roxburgh Castle, by an exploding cannon
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GIVN James SURN V NSFX KIng TEXT The Royal Families of England Scotland & Wales by Burkes Peerage _MASTER Y BAPM PLAC Crowned 21 sep 1513 TEXT Collins Gem Kings & Queens _MASTER Y PAGE 110 10 Sep 1513 > 14 Dec 1542 = reign of James V of Sco tland Crowned 21 Sep 1513 in Chapel Royal of Stirling He was 17 months old when his father (James IV) was killed. His mother acted as regent until her marriage in 1514 to Archibald, 6th earl of Angus. In 1525, during the continued struggle for control of the country, James was taken prisoner by his stepfather. Three years later the King escaped and assumed control of Scotland. His uncle, Henry VIII, King of England, tried to induce James to repudiate the authority of the Roma n Catholic Church, but James refused, and relations between England and Scotland became strained; in 1542 war broke out. DATE 6 FEB 2000 TIME 15:34:34 OBJE FORM bmp FILE F:\BK5\Images\Famous People\Jame1381.bmp _SCBK Y _PRIM Y _TYPE PHOTO
GIVN James SURN V NSFX KIng TEXT The Royal Families of England Scotland & Wales by Burkes Peerage _MASTER Y BAPM PLAC Crowned 21 sep 1513 TEXT Collins Gem Kings & Queens _MASTER Y PAGE 110 10 Sep 1513 > 14 Dec 1542 = reign of James V of Sc otland Crowned 21 Sep 1513 in Chapel Royal of Stirling He was 17 months old when his father (James IV) was killed. His mother acted as regent until her marriage in 1514 to Archibald, 6th earl of Angus. In 1525, during the continued struggle for control of the country, James was taken prisoner by his stepfather. Three years later the King escaped and assumed control of Scotland. His uncle, Henry VIII, King of England, tried to induce James to repudiate the authority of the Rom an Catholic Church, but James refused, and relations between England and Scotland became strained; in 1542 war broke out. DATE 6 FEB 2000 TIME 15:34:34 OBJE FORM bmp FILE F:\BK5\Images\Famous People\Jame1381.bmp _SCBK Y _PRIM Y _TYPE PHOTO
King James II of /Scotland/
King of Scots
James IV, 1473-1513 (r.1488-1513), was a popular and able monarch who brought progress and stability to Scotland. In 1503 he married Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry Vii of England. Scottish relations with England deteriorated with the acc ession of Henry Viii. James invaded England in 1513 and was killed in the battle of Flodden, in which the Scottish aristocracy was almost annihilated.
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Interred: Church of the English Benedictines, Paris, France
1. James reigned from 1513 to 1542.
2. Some records list James died 1547.
1. James reigned from 1488 to 1513.
2. James' wife petitioned for divorce in 1514 on the grounds her husbandwas alive and in the Holy Land. His body was kept in a lumber room atRichmond Palace in the reign of Henry VIII.
He reigned from 1488 to 1513.
He reigned from 1437 to 1460.
He reigned from 1513 to 1542. The Earl's of Moray (extinct 1615) arehis descendants.
He was also the King James VII of Scotland and Ireland. He reignedfrom 1685 to 1688, when he was deposed by the Whig Revolution..
He was the Pretender to the throne of Scotland from 1701 to 1766 asKing de jure James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
He reigned from 1513 to 1542. The Earl's of Moray (extinct 1615) are his descendants.
He was the Pretender to the throne of Scotland from 1701 to 1766 as King de jure James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
Killed by a bursting piece of ordnance at the seige of Roxburgh Castle
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James of the Fiery Face
He was crowned at age 7, and a regency led by the Douglas family ruleduntil 1449. William, 8th Earl of Douglas, was involved in treason andwas stabbed to death by the king. He crushed a revolt of the Douglasfamily in 1452 and siezed the ir estates. He then became entangled in theWars of the Roses in England.
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1 NAME James of the Fiery /Face/
James IV (b. March 17, 1473--d. Sept. 9, 1513, near Branxton,Northumberland, Eng.), king of Scotland from 1488 to 1513. An energeticand popular ruler, he unified Scotland under royal control, strengthenedroyal finances, and improved Scotlan d's position in European politics.
James succeeded to the throne after his father, James III, was killed ina battle against rebels on June 11, 1488. The 15-year-old monarchimmediately began to take an active part in government. He extended hisauthority to the sparsely popul ated areas of western and northernScotland and by 1493 had humbled the last lord of the Isles.
Although his reign was internally peaceful, it was disturbed by wars withEngland. Breaking a truce with England in 1495, James prepared aninvasion in support of Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne.The war was confined to a fe w border forays, and a seven-year peace wasnegotiated in December 1497, though border raids continued. Relationsbetween England and Scotland were further stabilized in 1503, when Jamesmarried Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of the Engli sh king HenryVII; this match resulted, a century later, in the accession of James'sgreat-grandson, the Stuart monarch James VI of Scotland, to the Englishthrone as King James I.
James IV's growing prestige enabled him to negotiate as an equal with therulers of continental Europe, but his position was weakened as he cameinto conflict with King Henry VIII of England (ruled 1509-47). In 1512James allied with France a gainst England and the major continentalpowers. When Henry invaded France in 1513, James decided, against thecounsel of his advisers, to aid his ally by advancing into England. Hecaptured four castles in northern England in August 1513, but his armywas disastrously defeated at the Battle of Flodden, near Branxton, onSept. 9, 1513. The King was killed while fighting on foot, and most ofhis nobles perished. James left one legitimate child, his successor,James V (ruled 1513-42); in addition, he had many illegitimate children,several of whom became prominent figures in Scotland.
True to the ideal of the Renaissance prince, James strove to make hiscourt a centre of refinement and learning. He patronized literature,licensed Scotland's first printers, and improved education. His career isrecounted in R.L. Mackie's Ki ng James IV of Scotland (1958). [BritannicaCD '97]
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James IV (1488-1513) James IV, born on 17 March 1473, was 15 when hisfather's enemies forced him to ride with them to the Battle ofSauchieburn, and for the rest of his life he wore an iron belt as apenance. For the first time in a century, Scotland had a king who wasable to start ruling for himself at once for, as Erasmus once commented,'He had wonderful powers of mind, an astonishing knowledge of everything,an unconquerable magnanimity and the most abundant generosity.' He spokeLatin (at that time the international language), French, German, Flemish,Italian, Spanish and some Gaelic, and took an active interest inliterature, science and the law, even trying his hand at dentistry andminor surgery. Under James' vigorous rule, he extended royal administration to the westand north - by 1493, he had overcome the last independent lord of theIsles.
With his patronage the printing press came to Scotland, and the RoyalCollege of Surgeons in Edinburgh, St Leonard's College, St Andrews andKing's College, Aberdeen were founded. He commissioned building work atthe royal residences of Linli thgow Palace, Edinburgh Castle and StirlingCastle, and developed a strong navy led by his flagship, the GreatMichael, said to be the largest vessel of the time.
To begin with, relations with England were difficult: in 1495, Jamessupported the pretender Perkin Warbeck in his claim to the Englishthrone. Even so, he was anxious to maintain peace with England andconcluded a peace treaty in 1502. After the death of his mistressMargaret Drummond, who was poisoned along with her sisters, presumably toprevent her from marrying the king, James accepted Henry VII's offer ofhis daughter Princess Margaret Tudor as a bride.
'The Marriage of the Thistle and the Rose' took place at Holyrood on 8August 1503. Although this match had great significance in the long term(after the death of Elizabeth I of England and the end of the Tudordynasty, the two thrones were inherited by James' and Margaret'sgreat-grandson James I and VI), it did not at once improve Anglo-Scottishrelations. When Henry VIII joined the Holy Alliance against France, andEngland invaded France in 1513, James felt that he must assist Scotland'sold ally under the 'Auld Alliance'.
He led his army - one of the largest ever to cross the border - south.The English forces, led by Lord Surrey, inflicted a crushing defeat.James and many of his nobles died at the head of his men in thedisastrous Battle of Flodden, three mi les south-east of Coldstream,Northumberland on 9 September 1513. 'The Flowers of the Forest thatfought aye the foremost, The prime of our land lie cauld in the clay'(Jean Elliot: The Flowers of the Forest). [The British Monarchy]
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, so created c1469, as also LordAuchterhous; High Chamberlain of Scotland 1471-73 and 1478-84, Ambassadorto France 1473, Warden of East Marches 1479; married Margaret, daughterand heiress of Sir Alexander Og ilvy of Auchterhouse, through whom hebecame Hereditary Sheriff of Forfar. [Burke's Peerage]
James II; born 16 Oct 1430; married 3 July 1449 Mary (died 1 Dec 1463),daughter of Arnold, Duke of Gueldres, and was killed by the bursting ofone of his own cannon while besieging the English in Roxburgh Castle 3Aug 1460. [Burke's Peerage]
James II built Ravenscraig Castle between March 1460 and 1464(posthumously).
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From book- I own titled, "Kings & Queens of England & Scotland", pg. "James II, 1685-1688. James ascended the throne on the death of his brother Charles II, in1685. His intentions of restoring Catholicism, and his policies, led toconfl ict with Church and Parliament. The birth of a son, and potentialCatholic monarch, in 1688 intensified the conflict, and within six monthshe was forced to flee into exile. BIOGRAPHY *Born: St. James's Palace, 24 Oct 1633, second son of Charles I andHenrietta Maria. *Married: Anne Hyde, London 3 Sept 1660, 8 children; Mary of Modena,Dover, Kent, 21 Nov 1673, 11 children. *Acceded: 6 Feb 1685. *Crowned: Westminster Abbey, 23 Apr 1685. *Deposed: 23 Dec 1688. *Died: France, 16 Sept 1701, aged 77. "KING TO BE" This portrait of James before he became king was completedin 1685 by Sir Godfrey Kneller. EVENTS OF HIS REIGN *1685 -- James succeeds his brother, Charles II. *1685 -- Rebellion of the Earl of Argyll in Scotland - designed to placethe Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, on the throne - iscrushed and Argyll is executed. *1685 -- The Duke of Monmouth rebels against James, but is defeated atthe Battle of Sedgmoor. *1685 -- Edict of Nantes - allowing freedom of religion to HuguenotProtestants - is revoked in France, resulting in thousands of Huguenotcraftworkers and traders settling in England. *1686 --James takes first measures to restore Catholicism in England, an dsets up a standing army of 13,000 troops at Hounslow to overawe nearbyLondon. *1688 -- Declaration of Indulgence suspends all laws against Catholicsand Non-Conformists. *1688 -- James's wife, Mary of Modena, gives birth to a son and Cathol icheir. *1688 -- Seven leading statesmen invite William of Orange, son-in-law ofJames, to England to restore English libert
