James I of Scotland
King of Scots from 1406 to 1437 · United Kingdom · Historical Figures · Lived 1394 to 1437 · aged 42
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Something wrong?He became king at eleven while locked in an English tower - a hostage-prince who wouldn't see Scotland as its ruler for eighteen years.
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James I of Scotland - By Unknown Author (16th Century)In their own words 3
, The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see, They live in fredome, everich in his kynd. And I a man, and lakkith libertee.
So ferr I fallyng into lufis dance, That sodeynly my wit, my contenance, My hert, my will, my nature and my mynd, Was changit clene ryght in anothir kynd.
Beautee eneuch to mak a world to dote.
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Born in July 1394, the youngest son of Robert III, James watched his older brother David die under suspicious circumstances in their uncle's custody and saw plans made to spirit him to France for safety. In March 1406, English pirates seized his ship in the Firth of Forth; his father died weeks later, leaving an 11-year-old captive as the uncrowned king. Educated at the English court, he fought for Henry V in France - at times against Scottish forces - before marrying Joan Beaufort in February 1424 and returning home that April. His reign turned ruthless: he executed his cousin Duke Murdoch and his sons in 1425, arrested the Lord of the Isles in 1428, and jailed other earls while diverting ransom funds to build Linlithgow Palace. On the night of 20 February 1437, his uncle Walter Stewart led assassins into his chamber at Perth; Queen Joan, wounded, escaped to reach their son in Edinburgh.
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