The Witch-Hunter King

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

During a post-wedding detour in Denmark, James VI of Scotland learned of the evils of witches, and he brought his anti-witch fervor with him when he returned to Scotland.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Manky.
0:05.6	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.6	One week before his mother was beheaded, James VI, the King of Scotland, had a premonition.
0:17.8	He hadn't seen his mother since he was an infant, just over one year old.
0:22.4	She lived for him only in letters and portraits, and in the stories his tutors told him about
0:28.0	her.
0:29.1	She had been a foolish and prideful Catholic.
0:32.1	Her rule in Scotland had been chaos fueled by impudence.
0:36.3	If Mary Queen of Scots hadn't personally overseen the murder of James's father, Lord
0:41.4	Darnley, then she had certainly willfully looked the other way.
0:46.2	James's mother was right to have been forced to abdicate after marrying, marrying the man
0:51.7	implicated in Darnley's death less than three months later.
0:56.2	When James's guiltiest moments he acknowledged that his mother Mary's imprisonment in England
1:01.2	by their cousin Elizabeth I was a god-send.
1:05.8	After all he was King of Scotland now with no real threats to his power.
1:10.5	The expenses of his Catholic mother's confinement wasn't being paid by Scottish coffers, and
1:16.6	by making good with Elizabeth by showing his loyalty to her, and to Protestantism he was
1:22.5	set to be next in line for the English throne when the Virgin Queen finally died.
1:29.3	They told him that his mother had been beautiful ones.
1:32.7	He wished he remembered what she looked like.
1:35.8	A week before Queen Elizabeth I would reluctantly violate the sanctity of the monarchy and deliver
1:42.2	a death sentence to the former Queen of a sovereign nation.
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