King James Von-Koopa I

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* *Also known as*
	+ "James the Lazy"

(b. 1461, d. 1509)

* Queen Olivia Von-Koopa IV (Mother)

(b. 1465, d. 1537)

* Lord Conrad Noverah (Stepfather)

(b. 1468, d. 1542)

(b. 1496, d. 1569) (m. 1523-1540)

* Princess Audrey Curtzmorre

(b. 1508, d. 1595) (m. 1542-1561)

**King James Von-Koopa I** was the 163rd monarch of the Koopa Kingdom. His reign began in 1512 upon his mother's abdication, and it ended in 1542 when he abdicated the throne to his eldest son James, who then was crowned King James II. James was born in 1494 and died in 1574 at the age of 79 years old.

### Backstory

#### Childhood

Prince John (later King James I) was born on April 24th, 1494 to Queen Olivia Von-Koopa IV of the Koopa Kingdom and her husband, Prince Howard Dollings. He had four younger brothers that survived into adulthood named “Prince Henry”, “Prince Frederick”, “Prince Stephen” and “Prince Richard” as well as two younger sisters that survived into adulthood named “Princess Olivia” and “Princess Charlotte”. He also had three siblings who died in infancy named “Prince James”, “Princess Jane” and “Prince William” as well as two siblings who died early into childhood named “Princess Marilyn” (died age 5) and “Princess Zoey” (died age 3).

John’s mother was known for being a cruel and careless Queen, as her decisions for the Kingdom usually made things worse for her citizens. Prince John and his siblings would often spend more time with their grandparents than with their mother and father, so Olivia IV’s parents and children were often away from the Koopa Kingdom overseas. John’s grandmother, former Queen Olivia III, was known for being one of the greatest Koopa Queens to ever live as even after abdicating the throne to her daughter, she still did what she could to continue her legacy and help out as many other Kingdoms as she possibly could, not knowing the reason they needed help was because of her daughter’s poor actions.

Olivia IV had many failures during her reign, such as her penny-related judicial system, her plan to poison the fish in the eastern ocean, she plunged her own government into debt despite raising taxes extremely high to pay for her beauty products, she increased homelessness by a large amount during the winter times and she would have anyone who even dared bat an eye at her decisions be executed. Prince John was known to be a kind but a very lazy Prince, he rarely ever attended School or went to his training sessions, and it’s said that he was only approved by the royal council because they thought anyone would be a better leader than Olivia IV was.

#### Early Reign

Prince John became heir to the throne in 1508, and his date of coronation was set by the Von-Koopa family assistant, Eoghan O’TolStar, as Prince John still didn’t understand how to read a calendar or how dates worked in general, even at age 14. He had only bothered to learn how to read dates after his father died in 1509 and he had to remember when his funeral was, and even then, John showed up visibly drunk. Prince John held his coronation on August 17th, 1512 at the age of 18. Right before taking oath, Prince John was asked if he was truly ready to be crowned King John VI, to which John responded with “no”, which left many people in shock/confusion. After a dramatic pause, James said he was ready to be crowned King James Von-Koopa, naming himself after his deceased older brother, much to everyone’s relief and to his mother Olivia’s happiness.

On March 11th, 1513, King James held a party in the Castle to celebrate his sister Olivia’s 16th birthday. Many members of the Von-Koopa family were also invited to the party for obvious reasons, including James’ grandmother, former Queen Olivia III. James or any of his siblings were never told about their grandmother’s diagnosis of epilepsy, so James had hired a group of mages to perform a colorful magic show. During the show, Olivia III had a violent seizure while trying to escape through the locked doors of the ballroom, and she was only noticed by her grandson James, who just thought his grandmother was doing some sort of futuristic dance, to which James called in an orchestra so everyone could start dancing along. Olivia III died the next day on March 12th, at the age of 75.

James was blamed for Olivia’s death, and his mother and grandfather, Prince Elliot, were mad at him for allowing his grandmother to go into a seizure and not tell anybody, to which James simply replied with “How was I supposed to know that grandma wouldn’t like the magic show?”. This started a habit of James of where he would deny that the consequences of his actions had anything to do with him, despite how dire or tragic they may be.

#### Habits & Marriage

A good example of James’ ignorance occurred in the year 1519 when James had been doing so little as King that his royal assistant, Eoghan O’TolStar, had to take his place for him. Gangs of criminals and knife wielding drunkards had been common throughout Darkland Village at the time, and while TolStar had gone out to the Village to collect taxes from the homeless people living throughout the area, he was stabbed 83 times in the chest and his fresh corpse was eaten by the nearby people he had collected taxes from, feeding them for weeks. When James was told of TolStar’s horrific death, the King said “TolStar perhaps died for the greater good, and he probably solved homelessness or something, maybe, I don't know.”, yet again continuing his infamous habit.

James was married in 1523 to Sybil Jorgensen, who was the daughter of the Duke of Merynngeu Valley, the couple had 8 children together that lived into adulthood; Prince James (later King James II), Princess Anne, Princess Naomi, Prince Landon, Princess Penelope, Prince Oswald, Princess Vicki and Princess Matilda. The couple also had two sons, Sherlock and Hamilton who died in infancy and a daughter, Beverly who died at the age of 19 months. James did very little parenting to his children, similar to how he took care of his Kingdom, and Sybil quickly understood what kind of person her husband was and realized she would have to take charge herself. In 1530, James started numerous arguments between his Kingdom after a formal dinner and discussion with Pope Leona XVIII when during grace (which James had never participated in before, nor had participated in any religious activities either), James suddenly burst out saying “The Devil can put his red lips upon my royal-”, and then his wife stopped him before he could say anything further, which the Pope was in utter confusion and disbelief upon the immaturity of the King.

#### Great Lake Civil War

Of all the events that occurred during James I’s reign, the most significant and well known is how he handled the Great Lake Civil War (1536-1568). The main ideas and plot of the GLCW is explained in the second short of The Koopaling Show, but in summary, after the death of King Poseidon of the Lake Kingdom, he stated in his will that he would break the rules of the Lake Kingdom’s Male-preference primogeniture and allow his eldest daughter to take his place, despite the fact that Poseidon had multiple sons, but the brother of Poseidon, “Prince Moses” convinced his nephews that if he were made King, they would become his heirs and be given more than their father had given them, which started the war. Since the Lake Kingdom was one of the most powerful, oldest and most internationally significant Kingdoms on Planet Odyssey, many other world leaders joined in the war to either help stop the conflict or to fight for one of the sides to speed up the process. King James was pressured to do anything to help the Lake Kingdom with their feud, but James kept insisting that he’d “get to it tomorrow”, which he continued saying for 4 years.

In the year 1540, James finally noticed that his troops had after all entered in the war, despite him clearly not giving them the order to do so, and had figured out that his wife had been pretending to be her husband and ruling the Kingdom for him. At first, James was thankful that someone was doing his job for him, but then he noticed her approving policies that he would’ve never allowed himself, so instead of confronting his wife or doing his job himself, he worked on coming up with a plan to get a divorce. James wasn’t aware that he could easily tell the Royal Noble Council of what his wife was doing and then they could be divorced instantly, most likely because he was too lazy to ask, so while he was using the chamber pot, he came up with a plan to intentionally be caught sleeping with some of Sybil’s sisters to show that he had lost interest in her.

#### Late Reign

James’ plan, as dumb and as trashy as it seemed to the people he shared it with (which included his elder children), actually seemed to work as James was caught in bed with two of Sybil’s younger sisters and James and his wife were divorced shortly after. James’ eldest son and two eldest daughters were livid at their father for doing this to their mother, but James as usual just drowned them out and focused on doing what he could to purposefully not do his job as King. Three years prior to James’ divorce, his eldest son, Prince James had become heir to the throne at the age of 13 and set a date for his coronation in 1542, and he had to forge his father’s signature on his agreement to abdication since King James was yet again too lazy to be a part of his son’s life.

The King later remarried in early 1542 to a woman named “Audrey Curtzmorre”, who was the ex-wife and cousin of the Duke of Dry Dunes, Reuben Tamoggia. Audrey and Reuben had 2 daughters that survived into adulthood named “Patricia Tamoggia” and “Muriel Tamoggia”, and when their mother remarried; they were adopted by James and given the title of “Princess” sometime in June 1542, less than a month before James’ abdication. James and Audrey also had two children themselves, named “Princess Danielle” and “Prince Atticus”, as well as a daughter who died in infancy named “Princess Farrah”, and two sons who died early into childhood named “Prince Ezekiel” (died age 4) and “Prince Napoleon” (died age 3). Prince James was later crowned as King James Von-Koopa II on July 8th, 1542 and his father didn’t attend his coronation because he accidentally slept the entire day.

(Story continues on King James II’s article)

### Marriages

#### First Marriage

Princess Sybil Jorgensen, daughter of the Duke of Merynngeu Valley was the first wife of King James I. She was born in 1496 and died in 1569 at the age of 72. James married Sybil in 1523 and the couple had 8 children together that survived into adulthood.

The couple divorced in 1540 after it was discovered that Sybil was taking charge of the Kingdom while pretending to be her husband and James was caught sleeping with two of Sybil's younger sisters.

#### Second Marriage

Princess Audrey Curtzmorre, cousin/ex-wife of the Duke of Dry Dunes was the second wife of King James I. She was born in 1508 and died in 1595 at the age of 87. Audrey's first husband was her cousin, Reuben Tamoggia (1507-1572), the couple married in 1527 and had two daughters who lived into adulthood named "Patricia" and "Muriel", and the couple separated after Reuben left his family to join a nudist cult.

James married Audrey in 1542 and the couple had 2 children together that survived into adulthood. James also gave his step-daughters the title of "Princess" later in the same year. Audrey divorced James in 1561 after he got drunk and asked his step-daughters if they wanted to see his "crown jewels".

### Issue

#### Issue w/ Sybil

##### James II, King of the Koopa Kingdom

Prince James was the first son and child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). He was born in 1524 and died in 1608 at the age of 84. James married his second cousin, Meredith Oideralle (who was the cousin once removed of his mother, Sybil Jorgensen), and the couple had 9 children together (including King James III).

##### Anne, Duchess of Dry Dunes

Princess Anne was the first daughter and second child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). She was born in 1526 and died in 1612 at the age of 86. She married the Duke of Darkland Village and the couple had 5 children together.

##### Naomi, Consort to King Óscar KaraKonn’gith Banahamiva I of the Lost Kingdom

Princess Naomi was the second daughter and third child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). She was born in 1528 and died in 1620 at the age of 92. She married the King of the Lost Kingdom, Óscar KaraKonn’gith Banahamiva I, and the couple had 13 children together.

##### Landon, Baron of BoBomb Battlefield

Prince Landon was the second son and fourth child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). He was born in 1531 and in 1565, he was killed in battle at the age of 33. Landon was also the only child of James I that survived to adulthood who predeceased his parents. Landon went to go fight in the Great Lake Civil War in 1558 and died in battle 7 years later, he was unmarried and had no children.

##### Penelope, Princess of Crumbtinople

Princess Penelope was the third daughter and fifth child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). She was born in 1532 and died in 1594 at the age of 61. Her first husband was Caesar Ebübekur van Kirtoğlu İnönüğen of the Ruined Kingdom and the couple had one son who was born 14 months before the death of his father in 1553.

The child later became Caesar Silahdarr van Turkottoğlu Byzanbāhtte who was the Caesar of the Ruined Kingdom for 60 years, and was also the grandfather of Zephaniah. Penelope's second husband was Prince Ikäriş van Calâl İnönüğen, the brother of her previous husband. The couple had 10 children together, who were all ancestors of Sir Bartholomew, Sir Adolphus, Lady Prudence, Sir Theophilus and Sir Humphrey, who were friends of Zephaniah that appeared in Episode 1-6 of the Koopaling Show.

##### Oswald, Earl of Windville

Prince Oswald was the third son and sixth child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). He was born in 1535 and died in 1581 at the age of 46. He married the daughter of the Viscount of Sunmer Gulch and the couple had 6 children together.

##### Vicki, Baroness of BoBomb Battlefield

Princess Vicki was the fourth daughter and seventh child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). She was born in 1537 and died in 1633 at the age of 95. Princess Vicki was given the title of "Baroness of BoBomb Battlefield" from her brother Landon after he left to go into battle in 1558. She married the Marquess of Wintore Ridge and had 2 children together before her husband was kidnapped by Pirates.

Vicki assumed her husband was killed and had remarried to the Count of Bloopenkoopen Basin, the couple had 3 children together before their marriage was annulled due to the unexpected return of Vicki's first husband. Vicki remarried the Marquess of Wintore Ridge and the couple had 2 more children together.

##### Matilda, Viscountess of Vistahime

Princess Matilda was the fifth daughter and eighth child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). She was born in 1539 and died in 1609 at the age of 69. She married the Viscount of Moomou Meadows and the couple had 5 children together.

#### Issue w/ Audrey

##### Danielle, Countess of Clockwork Cloudway

Princess Danielle was the sixth/youngest daughter and ninth child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). She was born in 1543 and died in 1617 at the age of 74. She married the Marquess of Chpring Mesa and the couple had 1 daughter together.

##### Atticus, Count of Rokandy Cove

Prince Atticus was the fourth/youngest son and tenth/youngest child of King James I that survived into adulthood (\*not including his illegitimate children). He was born in 1544 and died in 1603 at the age of 58. His first wife was the daughter of Duke of Koopaint Krag and the couple had 12 children together before his wife died while giving birth. Atticus remarried to the daughter of Earl of Eelsvale River and the couple had 6 children together.

#### Stepchildren

##### Princess Patricia Tamoggia

Princess Patricia was the elder stepdaughter of King James I. She was born in 1529 and died in 1606 at the age of 77. Her first husband was a Koopanese Samurai who died 3 months after she married him. She remarried to another Koopanese Samurai and the couple had 4 children together.

##### Princess Muriel Tamoggia

Princess Muriel was the younger stepdaughter of King James I. She was born in 1530 and died in 1610 at the age of 80. She married the Koopa Castle's chef and the couple had 2 children together.

### References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcI3Fy4\_5g
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/bxAuCvaJv70?t=46