Jamestown, Virginia, is named in his honor. The King James Bible was widely read in the American colonies, though typically published in Britain. It was often the book in the pulpit during the ...

John Smith, archaeologists are unearthing ruins long thought lost to the James River ... (soon to be renamed the James in honor of their King, James I) in search of a more secure site.

The company, chartered by King James I in April ... The London Company would establish Jamestown in Virginia, England's first permanent settlement in the New World. There were two ways to become ...