James VI and I

1566–1625

King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625

monarch · writer · poet

Born in Edinburgh Castle

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as James VI and I:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
• Rembrandt (1606–1669)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)

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