King Patrick I Henry

**King Patrick the First**, family name **Henry**, known cordially as "**King Liberty**" to his subjects, was the first sovereign of Virginia Kingdom, since America declared the independence from its European Empire. We use surnames for the Kings in the EURA, because there are many of them, and it's much easier to distinguish all of them by the royal family name than by a queendom/kingdom they rule, because sometimes they form a personal union queendoms/kingdoms and there might be two sovereigns with the same name and number and realm, for example new King being a son-in-law of his namesake old King, so he must keep his number, from his own family, because he didn't inherit the old King, but united the two realms.

And also because they are actually the first rulers in their extended families, even though many of them descended from smaller peerage back in the British Empire, native to their grandparents or even parents in some cases, so called progenitors of their ruling dynasty, and it's not like they inherited some long line of famous Euopean bloodline family name. They are, for now, the best known representatives of their family and they, for now, can be signed with the full name. When it becomes a household name, then their descendants will drop it.

## Life before the Declaration of the Independence

Patrick Henry, son of a military commander (of unknown rank at the time of birth of his birth), was born in a small farm that is not saved for the history, maybe even tore down during the wars, called "Studley" after which whole area and that village is called nowadays, in Hanover County, renamed to Williams County after the original surname of the Henries, also called Hendries, because Hanover was named after the original family branch of the previous King, stone toss away from his mother's (she's not the Queen Mother) birth house, which is sort of saved, but at the time Army officers from America didn't relocate as much as today, so that is not unexpected.

He was known in his family as a "junior", even tho he's officially styled as "the First", but not after his grandpa Alexander Patrick Henry, but after his uncle (dad's brother), Reverend Patrick Henry. That's how it was a custom in his family, one of the sons is a military officer, and one is an Anglican priest. Americans remained Anglican, but they no longer recognized a Queen/King of England as sovereign of the Church, The Supreme Governor of the Church of England. And the new Emperor of America didn't want to take that title, and the responsibility, not only because he, as a first Emperor didn't have biological kids female or male, to inherit the title, therefore he didn't use Roman numeral with his name, but also because America is melting pot of confessions, unlike Europe who has majorities, and many of his Kings and/or relatives (extended Imperial family tree) were of many different confessions, not only of the Protestant branches and sects, like Quakers, Methodists or Sabbateans, but even Catholic and non-Christian, like Jews, and he was the Emperor of them all equally, and historically the Head of the Church of England were some sovereigns who were Catholic (Spanish), Lutherans or other, and who weren't English at all, so he organized the specific Anglican community as they were Presbyterian, meaning they had Presbyters (elders), even though the pillar of Protestantism is that every man is a priest, some, like Presbyterians and others decided they still need elders who'll gather in some sort of Synod and decide on important questions, the best (educated) among the equal, with none other powers nor leading position, thusly not intervening with breaking off with the Pope and the ecclesiastical hierarchy. They were not Bishops, just elders. They gathered, recommended candidates for example for the replacement of deceased or retired Presbyters, to the vice-Minister of Faith, now called Lieutenant Minister, because now they have Prime Minister as well, and to drop the "vice", who also like the now extinguished Head of Anglican Church, needs not to be Anglican, because he is the Minister of all the faiths, even Hinduism and Druze, but he belongs to only one faith. Or none. Which is rare. Because what's the point. Having an atheist Minister of Faith. Then he addresses his Minister, of general Social affairs, who then presents the issue to a Prime Minister, of the Empire, not of the specific Kingdom, because that functions on the union/federal level, and then the Emperor/Empress decides on the important questions, even if she/he belongs or not belong to the Anglicans at the moment. Unlike with Carholics, or... Muslims or.... Buddhists, who appoint their whole governing chain "of command" from monks to Pope/Lama.

His mother, not called the Queen Mother, because she's not the founder, even tho she is of sort of peerage, her son is the progenitor of the House of Henries, Sarah Winston Syme Henry, not to be confused with his grandma and his many aunts and cousins with the same name, or any variations of it, was herself one of those who seceded in the land of yore, British Isles. Even tho her family came as early as a bit after 1630s, they are not the Brownists, Puritan Pilgrims. Those are English Dissenters, Secedists from the Church of England, unsatisfied with state, and particularly King's interference in Church things, especially pointing himself as the Head of their Church, when they fought to not have chain of authority. She is of Scottish dissenters. Dissidents.

Wars of Religion killed thousands and drained the life out of the rest for quite some time. In whole Europe. And on British Islands it was quite bloody and quite a family feud. Wars of Religion, even though called that, we're as any other war, fought for more independence of some territory, ethnic or not, and absolutely for the supremacy, and whatever it might bring. Netherlands saw the spread of Protestantism not because they suddenly got an Epiphany of what is the right way, but because they wanted to get rid of the Spanish occupation. In Ireland it was the opposite, they remained strong Catholic because they wanted to chase out the English occupation (English-Welsh-Scottish, because King Charles I was Scotsman actually). And Jan Hus, who's regarded as Proto-Protestant, and a biggest influence on Martin Luther, seceded from the Catholic Church not because he was unsatisfied with Church Rites and the amount of gold spent on their parades, but just because Czechs are a nation that doesn't take foreign rule quite well, and they were all far too weak yet to fight the whole Empires, so they at least tried getting their autonomy in that way, even though Hussite Wars weren't fought with the Pope who was as close geographically, but with Germanics, unless you see the Holy Roman Empire as the same thing as the Papal states. That is why Americans separated both of those things from the Emperor. And the very first protester against the Catholic See, who didn't have much success though, John Wycliffe, also burned, just like Jan Hus, but posthumously, wasn't unsatisfied with richness of the Bishops, as he claimed. He just thought English language/people deserve much more supremacy and the autonomy in preaching, as a rising Empire.

So when the King James I and VI, a former Catholic, a former Scotsman, son of Mary of Scots, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister, who didn't change her religion as her Reformist brother, because the Pope didn't let him divorce his dead brother's widow, even though by that it was deemed illegal in Catholic Church, who was pressured to change religion because his mother's quick remarriage, but he gladly accepted it, because he really wanted to reconsile the family, tried to put himself as deciding Head of Church even in his birth country, Scottish people, who didn't like English Kings even when they are ex-Scots, and when that King now wants to be the Pope instead of Pope, that's when you get Scottish Calvinists on the rise. That is why George Washington would never allow that, and even though he as an Emperor decided on many things, including questions of the religion, of his Anglicanism and every other religion, he declined being an official Head of it. English Kings didn't. It lead to much opposition in newly occupied Catholic spiteful Ireland, and even more in his native Scotland, and it ended in regicide of his son Charles I. By decapitation. That surely ended his divine right. And marked the only time in British history with no monarchy. His sons returned to Catholicism, and eventually to the throne, with Jacobites' help, but then again, under the pressure, they returned the Anglicans to the throne room, under pretext that his Catholic heir son was born a bit (suspiciously) late, 23 years after his already prepared to be a Protestant Queen Mary II older sister, who married decapitated King's Dutch also Protestant also grandkid (through daughter) King William III, but they didn't last long. She died less than 4 years after the "Glorious Revolution" a.k.a. Dutch invasion on Catholic British Empire, helped by John Churchill (of course he's the father of Winston Churchill Prime Minister's great grandpa's grandma Lady Spencer, he was named after John's father Winston, also Member of the Parliament, of distant French/Italian, probably Corsican heritage, from some Gitto de Chourchile), who betrayed the Catholic King, and got to be the Earl of Marlborough as a gratitude. And William also died not long after. They had zero kids. Her sister Queen Anne, also lost all her kids, through 17 miscarriages and still-births, and few of them died immediately or a bit after birth. Her only surviving son, died 11 years old, 3 months after her last miscarriage and further impossibility of conceiving, from pharyngitis and lymph nodes which spread to his brain, but mostly from mistreatment with medical blistering and bleeding out, which killed the Emperor George Washington as well. His mother brought to the throne, much to the dislike of everyone, British people of all confessions. her undestined husband Georg(e) I of Hanover branch, son of beheaded King's one of the last daughters' last daughter. He didn't know a word of English and wasn't even Anglican, as we mentioned before, that doesn't stop him from being the Head of Church of England. Even though they had over 50 Catholic Heir apparents to the Throne, from her father James alone (his also Catholic predecessor, King Charles II, his brother, had dozen children but all illegitimate), they once again forced their will. And thusly Brittain remained Protestant/Anglican to today, through his descendants Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, who died last year (2022).

During the interregnum and deposing of the ex Scot ex Catholic ex with axed head King Charles I, who dared to try to yield his fellow Scots to accept him as a Head (what an irony) of their Presbyterian way of ruling in their Church, conceived on Calvinism, by John Knox the founder of the Scottish Kirke (relations to the founding FATHER of the America King Henry Knox is unknown) in spite of both the Pope and Divine King of Brittain, who can be the King, but not the Church leader, the close ancestors of Sarah Henry banded together with the Parliamentarists to depose and behead him, as so called Covenanters, because they signed the covenants with him which he of course stepped over, and they killed him. In the end he surrendered to them, not to the English (Cromwell), but not because he trusted them, no. Because he wanted to use the last days of his life to bring them to a fight.

When they saw the Parliamentarists are not helping their cause as well, they helped the return of the the Monarchy, with beheaded King's two sons, with whom they also signed the Covenants, but they betrayed them, the Covenants I mean, even worse. They returned to "no Bishops no King" Episcopalian Protestanism for Scots, so they can be their full sovereigns, but they immediately killed their imposed Bishop. That lead to The Killing Times decimating of Scottish Protestants, but our King Henry I's mom's all 8 great-grandparents, who were probably cousins (once removed) ran away to the American Colonies long before that, apparently from Wales and Lincolnshire in England, but they were Scots. The season of killing stopped in 1688, when "Glorious Revolution" came, but they never came back of course. There was simply no more trust. They decided to form themselves a new Empire.

They of course started their life in Virginia Colony, which was already a stronghold of the anti-King resistance, together with Barbados and Antigua, which suffered more, and already had substantial Puritan settlement. They most likely participated in the Battle of Severn, so called "the last battle of the British Civil War", where Loyalist English settlers of Maryland, mostly Catholic though, loyal to the Catholic King brothers, fought Puritan deflectors. Because it was fought in the vicinity where they settled. And stayed there til birth of the first King from their family, **Henry**.

His mother Sarah, was from the prominent family of military leaders and religious leaders. Her 3 brothers were Colonel, Major and Captain, in that order. Colonel "Langloo Billy", who was born when their father was 15 and mother, also named Sarah, a lot older (and probably his first cousin once removed), so you figure out what happened there, who by the way still has living descendants, was father of Edmund Winston, a Judge who later married **King Henry's** widow. Sarah was their second child, born on November 1709. after the Colonel, 7 years later, so Colonel was probably unplanned, or even unconsented.

What is weird is that she married military officers as well. Colonels. Weird thing about it is, that house in which our **King Patrick I Henry** was born was built from stone foundations to second story beams by Sarah's first husband, Colonel John Syme I, 19 years her senior, whose surname she still wore, with whom she had a son, junior, John Syme II, Roman numerals are not the title, who lived with them, in THAT house, who died soon after that, and his friend took the widow and friend's son in (they took him in actually). That first son also married a woman named Sarah, not to be confused with his sister also named Sarah (Jr.). She had altogether 4 sons, one died young, and one more was Lieutenant, and 8 daughters, forementioned Sarah and Susannah "Sukie", who in the end married