James VI - Acts of Union - University of Aberdeen

Introduction
Articles of Union
The Stuart Vision of Union
James VI & I
Castlemaine's Embassy
Protestant Parliaments & Unions
William of Orange
The Union of 1707
Queen Anne and George, Prince of Denmark
The Debate over Union
The Impact of Union
Impact of the articles
Lecture Notes
Competing Unions
Stuart Unionism
James VIII & III
Basket hilt sword
Hanoverian Unionism
King's, Marischal and the Question of Union
Maces of King’s College and Marischal College
Aberdeen Jacobitism
Sibyl Europæa
Aberdeen Unionism
Dr James Fraser
Securing Union
Acknowledgements

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This portrait is a copy of a 1623 painting of James VI & I by Adam de Colone. It is one of a wealth of Stuart images in the university collections which attest to the dynasty's patronage of King's College and later to the prolonged Jacobite sympathies of both King's and Marischal Colleges.

James had a turbulent early life. After the abdication of his mother, Mary Queen of Scots in 1567, James ruled as a minor until 1584. He subsequently governed Scotland firmly and effectively until the death of Elizabeth Tudor in 1603, when he ascended to the English throne and proclaimed himself king of Great Britain. The painting shows an elderly James two years before his death in 1625.