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James I (Stuart)

1566 – 1625

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James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from 1603 until his death in 1625, the first monarch to rule both kingdoms in personal union. His 1597 treatise Daemonologie helped fuel a wave of witch trials in Scotland and England in which hundreds were executed, and his unsuccessful pursuit of an absolutist royal prerogative laid the groundwork for the constitutional confrontation that would erupt under his son Charles I. His reign also produced the King James Version of the Bible, completed in 1611.