James Stuart + Anne … Of Denmark
b. 19 June 1566 21 23 Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
d. 27 March 1625 (Age 58) Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire, Herts, England
b. 14 October 1574 Skanderborg, Castle, Denmark
d. 4 March 1619 (Age 44) Hampton Court, Richmond, London, England
b. 19 February 1594 27 19 Stirling Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 6 November 1612 (Age 18) St. James Palace, England
b. 19 August 1596 30 21 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
d. 13 February 1662 (Age 65) Leicester House, London, England
b. 24 December 1598 32 24 Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
d. March 1600 (Age 14 months) Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
b. 19 November 1600 34 26 Dunfermline, Scotland
d. 30 January 1649 (Age 48) Whitehall Palace, England
b. 18 January 1602 35 27 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
d. 27 May 1602 (Age 4 months) Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
b. 8 April 1605 38 30 Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, England
d. 16 September 1607 (Age 2) Stanwell Park, Middlesex, England
b. 22 June 1606 40 31 Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, England
d. 23 June 1606 (Age 1 day) Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, England
Family Group Information
| Marriage | 23 November 1589 Oslo, Norway Note: Throughout his youth, James was praised for his chastity, since he showed little interest in women; after the loss of Lennox, he continued to prefer male company.[38] A suitable marriage, however, was necessary to reinforce his monarchy, and the choice fell on the fourteen-year-old Anne of Denmark, younger daughter of the Protestant Frederick II. Shortly after a proxy marriage in Copenhagen in August 1589, Anne sailed for Scotland but was forced by storms to the coast of Norway. On hearing the crossing had been abandoned, James, in what Willson calls "the one romantic episode of his life",[39] sailed from Leith with a three-hundred-strong retinue to fetch Anne personally.[40] The couple were married formally at the Bishop's Palace in Oslo on 23 November and, after stays at Elsinore and Copenhagen and a meeting with Tycho Brahe, returned to Scotland on 1 May 1590. By all accounts, James was at first infatuated with Anne, and in the early years of their marriage seems always to have showed her patience and affection.[41] The royal couple produced three surviving children: Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died of typhoid fever in 1612, aged 18; Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia; and Charles, the future King. Anne died before her husband in March 1619. |
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