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The personal relationships of James VI and I included relationships with his male courtiers and his marriage to Anne of Denmark, with whom he fathered children. The influence his favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign.

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  • Vita privata di Giacomo I d'Inghilterra (it)
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  • The personal relationships of James VI and I included relationships with his male courtiers and his marriage to Anne of Denmark, with whom he fathered children. The influence his favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign. (en)
  • La vita privata di Giacomo I d'Inghilterra e VI di Scozia è stata oggetto di studi specifici riguardanti gli stretti legami che il monarca instaurò con i suoi favoriti, legami talmente stretti da far ipotizzare a numerosi storici la possibilità dell'omosessualità o bisessualità del re Stuart. Giacomo ebbe anche relazioni sentimentali con delle donne, tra cui Anne Murray, oltre ad essere stato sposato con Anna di Danimarca dal 1589 alla morte. Insieme alla consorte, Giacomo ebbe sette figli, tra cui il futuro erede Carlo I d'Inghilterra. (it)
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  • The personal relationships of James VI and I included relationships with his male courtiers and his marriage to Anne of Denmark, with whom he fathered children. The influence his favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign. James (born 1566) did not know his parents — his father, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was murdered in 1567, and his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to flee when she married the suspected murderer, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. His maternal grandparents died before he was born; his paternal grandfather was killed in a skirmish while James was still a boy, and his paternal grandmother lived in England. He had no siblings. His first documented male favourite, at the age of 13, was his older relative Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox. James adopted a severe stance towards sodomy using English law. His book on kingship, Basilikón Dōron, (Greek for "Royal Gift") lists sodomy among those "horrible crimes which ye are bound in conscience never to forgive". He also singled out sodomy in a letter to Lord Burleigh giving directives that Judges were to interpret the law broadly and were not to issue any pardons, saying that "no more colour may be left to judges to work upon their wits in that point." However, nearly two centuries later, Jeremy Bentham, in an unpublished manuscript, denounced James as a hypocrite after his crackdown: "[James I], if he be the author of that first article of the works which bear his name, and which indeed were owned by him, reckons this practise among the few offences which no Sovereign ever ought to pardon. This must [...] seem rather extraordinary to those who have a notion that a pardon in this case is what he himself, had he been a subject, might have stood in need of." (en)
  • La vita privata di Giacomo I d'Inghilterra e VI di Scozia è stata oggetto di studi specifici riguardanti gli stretti legami che il monarca instaurò con i suoi favoriti, legami talmente stretti da far ipotizzare a numerosi storici la possibilità dell'omosessualità o bisessualità del re Stuart. Giacomo ebbe anche relazioni sentimentali con delle donne, tra cui Anne Murray, oltre ad essere stato sposato con Anna di Danimarca dal 1589 alla morte. Insieme alla consorte, Giacomo ebbe sette figli, tra cui il futuro erede Carlo I d'Inghilterra. Da un punto di vista morale, Giacomo I prese una forte posizione contro la sodomia, definendola nel suo speculum principis Basilikón Dōron uno di quei pochi orribili crimini che un sovrano in tutta coscienza non deve mai perdonare. Tuttavia, quando il re era ancora in vita i suoi rapporti con uomini giovani ed attraenti erano già chiacchierati, tanto che un epigramma neolatino dell'epoca affermava Rex fuit Elisabeth, nunc est regina Jacobus: "Elisabetta fu re, ora Giacomo è regina". Effettivamente il monarca era incline ad innalzare i suoi favoriti ai massimi livelli dell'aristocrazia inglese, donando titoli e possedimenti, e alcune lettere pervenuteci tra Giacomo e i suoi minions sono di natura profondamente intima. A partire dalla seconda metà del XVII secolo la sessualità del re divenne oggetto di discussione e critica da parte di importanti figure culturali del periodo, tra cui Jeremy Bentham, che lo definì un ipocrita perché condannava pubblicamente dei comportamenti che era più che disposto ad adottare nel privato. (it)
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