Thomas Reid (humanist)
Thomas Reid( Read, Rhaedus)( died 1624) was a Scottish humanist and philosopher who became Latin secretary to King James VI and I.
John Naysmyth
John Naysmith( or Naismyth or Nasmyth)( 1556 – 16 September 1613) was a Scottish surgeon who became surgeon to King James VI of Scotland and was appointed Royal Herbalist in London when the monarch became King James VI and I.
He was Deacon( President) of the Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.
Mary, the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland, was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne.
She spent most of her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents, and in 1558, she married the Dauphin of France, Francis.
Mary was queen consort of France from his accession in 1559 until his death in December 1560.
Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1561.
Four years later, she married her half-cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and in June 1566 they had a son, James.
In February 1567, Darnley's residence was destroyed by an explosion, and he was found murdered in the garden.
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was generally believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but he was acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following month he married Mary.
Following an uprising against the couple, Mary was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle.
On 24 July 1567, she was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son.
After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne, she fled southward seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Mary had once claimed Elizabeth's throne as her own and was considered the legitimate sovereign of England by many English Catholics, including participants in a rebellion known as the Rising of the North.
Perceiving Mary as a threat, Elizabeth had her confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of England.
After eighteen and a half years in custody, Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586, and was beheaded the following year at Fotheringhay Castle.
James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
The kingdoms of Scotland and England were individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, though both were ruled by James in personal union.
James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, positioning him to eventually accede to all three thrones.
James succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was compelled to abdicate in his favour.
Four different regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583.
In 1603, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died childless.
He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known after him as the Jacobean era, until his death.
After the Union of the Crowns, he based himself in England (the largest of the three realms) from 1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself "King of Great Britain and Ireland".
He was a major advocate of a single parliament for England and Scotland.
In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster and British colonisation of the Americas began.
At 57 years and 246 days, James's reign in Scotland was the longest of any Scottish monarch.
He achieved most of his aims in Scotland but faced great difficulties in England, including the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and repeated conflicts with the English Parliament.
Under James, the "Golden Age" of Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Sir Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing literary culture.
James himself was a talented scholar, the author of works such as "Daemonologie" (1597), "The True Law of Free Monarchies" (1598), and "Basilikon Doron" (1599).
He sponsored the translation of the Bible into English that would later be named after him: the Authorized King James Version.
Sir Anthony Weldon claimed that James had been termed "the wisest fool in Christendom", an epithet associated with his character ever since.
Since the latter half of the 20th century, historians have tended to revise James's reputation and treat him as a serious and thoughtful monarch.
He was strongly committed to a peace policy, and tried to avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) that devastated much of Central Europe.
He tried but failed to prevent the rise of hawkish elements in the English Parliament who wanted war with Spain.
Alexander Stewart of Darnley (d.1404)
Sir Alexander Stewart of Darnley( died 1404) was a Scottish nobleman and paternal six times great grandfather of James VI and I
Adam de Colone
Adam de Colone, or Adam Louisz. de Colonia( c. 1572 in Antwerp – buried 19 August 1651 in Rotterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in Scotland during the reigns of James VI and I and Charles I of England.
Gilbert Primrose (surgeon)
Gilbert Primrose( c.1535- 18 April 1616) was a Scottish surgeon who became Surgeon to King James VI of Scots and moved with the court to London as Serjeant- Surgeon to King James VI and I on the Union of the Crowns.
He was Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh on three occasions.
Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 – 11 September 1605) was a prominent recusant Catholic landowner in Elizabethan Northamptonshire.
He died two years after the accession of James VI and I.
Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset( c. 158717 July 1645), was a politician, and favourite of King James VI and I.
John Forbes (minister, born c. 1568)
John Forbes( c.1568–1634) was a Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I.

Question: Who is the maternal grandfather of James Vi And I?
Answer: James V of Scotland