The Divine Right of Kings is a very old concept, in fact, thousands of years old. It is, in a nutshell, “a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism, asserting that a monarch is subject to ...

The 19th century English historian John Neville Figgis, in his treatise The Divine Right of Kings justified James by saying the king was establishing “sovereignty” as an acceptable principle ...

In 1605, a Catholic plot to blow up king and parliament was uncovered. James's firm belief in the divine right of kings, and constant need for money, also brought him into conflict repeatedly with ...