| George I | |
|---|---|
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| Vital statistics | |
| Title | King of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Gender | Male |
| Status | Alive |
| Ships | None |
| Relationships | None |
| Appearances | First Mentioned: I.
Last Mentioned: XXXVIII. |
| Portrayed by | N/A |
George I of the House of Hanover, is the King of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Hanoverian monarch, following the death of Queen Anne.
Biography[]
Background[]
After the death of his mother and his second cousin, Queen Anne, George ascended the throne of England in 1714 as the closest living Protestant relative of the Queen. Jacobites tried and failed to depose George in favor of James Stuart, Anne's Catholic half-brother.
Season One[]
Flint tells Billy Bones that when he says a war is coming, he doesn’t mean with King George or England, but with civilization[1].
Pastor Lambrick informs Miranda Barlow of the arrival of the His Majesty’s Ship the Scarborough to the Bahamas, having docked in Harbour Island. He tells her it is said that King George means to reassert colonial rule in Nassau[2].
Season Two[]
Charles Vane kills Richard Guthrie after Eleanor steals Abigail Ashe from him. He states in the letter he left pinned to Richard’s body that Richard was engaged in a plot to see the yoke of King George returned to Nassau, betraying the pirates and thus, dying a traitor’s death[3].
Season Three[]
Max says that the spectacle around Eleanor Guthrie’s trial is so great that it is said that King George himself receives daily updates. Captain Benjamin Hornigold, now a privateer in the service of the Royal Navy, finds theWalrus. He tells them that in his capacity as a servant of His Majesty King George the First, he addresses the crew. He says if they surrender, he is authorized to offer all of them full and an unqualified pardons. Their ship will be commandeered and they will be given a choice of entering his service or being set free at the nearest port with clear named and squared accounts. Should they refuse, he will grant no quarter. Woodes Rogers is appointed by King George to be the next Governor of New Providence Island. He is authorized to give the same pardons as Hornigold to the pirates, in the hopes that they will surrender. He frees Eleanor Guthrie to help provide him with information to better rule Nassau[4].
Woodes Rogers gives Eleanor the address he plans on reading to the pirates of Nassau to encourage them to take the King’s Pardon. He asks her to read it over and offer advice[5].
After finding the pirates setting up a defense of the harbor, Rogers sends Hornigold to read his address after Eleanor counsels to him to do so. Hornigold reads to the pirates that those who renounce violence against the Crown, they are offered the King’s Pardons. No matter what the pirates have done, or how irredeemable they believe it to be, King George and Governor Woodes Rogers wish to offer them a clean slate. Hornigold is successful, and the pirates on the beach surrender en masse[6].
Later, Rogers informs Eleanor that by daybreak tomorrow, more than half the pirates will have accepted the King’s Pardon. At the Maroon Camp, John Silver explains to Madi why all of his men agreed to resist the pardons. He says some of his men feel Nassau’s been theirs for so long, they have no interest in signing a document that would surrender it to King George[7].
Silver returns to Nassau accompanied by the vanguard. They go to the Tavern, and Silver begins his speech. He says he understands that the Tavern is the place where cowards go to beg their forgiveness from King George, signing their names to sleep easy, thinking all their sins have been absolved. However, there are some sins that even a King can’t make clean. He says that everyone on New Providence has crossed a man far less forgiving than King George, Captain Flint[8].
Before the battle of the Maroon Island, Silver says not far from where they are sitting, the fortifications are built from which in a few days’ time, they’ll look out and stare down King George’s navy. Flint remarks to Silver that while Silver may believe he poses a danger to Flint, there are things he should remember a few things. Flint survived starvation, a tempest, pirate hunters, jealous captains, mutinous crews, angry lords, Queen Anne, King George, and the Royal Navy[9].
Season Four[]
Woodes Rogers remarks that Spain and England are too busy fighting over which king sits on which throne to focus on the real threat that the pirates pose[10].
After the pirates retake Nassau, Rogers travels to Havana to secure the aid of Governor Raja in driving them out. Rogers says that they are only enemies because their kings are at war with each other, but that war is meaningless to him in light of the pirate threat[11].
After Rogers is defeated, Flint and John Silver lead a small party ashore to recover the Urca treasure. While walking through the jungle, they take a break and Silver and Flint go off by themselves to talk. As they discuss continuing the war, with Flint in favor and Silver against, Silver tells Flint that the war isn’t about England, her king or their freedom, it’s about Flint’s rage[12].
Quotes[]
"When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough. I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming and it means to exterminate us." - Flint to Billy Bones in I.
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