List of rulers named Jacob

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Jacob was called the following rulers:

Secular rulers named Jacob
Jacob (Ethiopia), Emperor of Ethiopia

Jacob I
Jacob I (Aragón), the conqueror, king of Aragón (1213–1276)
James I (Cyprus), King of Cyprus (1382–1398)
James I (Scotland), King of Scotland (1406–1437)
Jakob I (Baden), Margrave of Baden (1431–1453)
James I (England), King of England, (1603–1625)
Jacob I (Haiti), Emperor of Haiti (1804–1806), actually Jean-Jacques Dessalines

James II.
James II. (Mallorca), King of Mallorca (1276–1311)
James II. (Aragón), the righteous, King of Aragón (1291–1327)
James II. (Scotland), King of Scotland (1437–1460)
James II. (Cyprus), King of Cyprus (1460–1473)
James II. (England), King of England (1685–1688)
James II. (Urgell), Count of Urgell

James III.
James III. (Mallorca), King of Mallorca (1324–1344), † 1349
James III. (Scotland), King of Scotland (1460–1488)
James III. (Cyprus), King of Cyprus (1473–1474)
James III. (Baden-Hachberg), Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (1584–1590)
James III. (Horn), Count of Horn

James IV/V
James IV (Scotland), King of Scotland (1488–1513)
James IV (Mallorca), King of Mallorca

James V, King of Scotland (1513–1542)

James VI. of Scotland is James I (England), King of England
James VII. of Scotland is James II. (England), King of England

Other
Yakov Dmitrievich Malama, Viceroy of Georgia (1904–1905)
Jakob Kettler, Duke of Courland (1639–1682)
Jacob of Savoy (1450–1486), Count of Romont and Lord of the Baronie Vaud; Son of Duke Louis I of Savoy and Anna of Lusignan
Anund Jakob (1000–1050), King of Sweden

Church rulers
Jacob of Nisibis, Bishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch in Nisibis (309–338)
Jacob of Sarug, poet and saint, bishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch in Sarug (519–521)
Jacob of Edessa, Bishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch in Edessa (684–688)
Jakob von Oudshoorn, Prince-Bishop of Utrecht (1322)

Jacob I, Bishop of Zagreb (1322–1326)
Jakob I. von Vansdorf, from 1362 to 1368 provost of the monastery Berchtesgaden
Jacob I of Sierck, Archbishop of Trier and Elector (1439–1456)
Jacob II of Baden, Archbishop of Trier and Elector (1503–1511)
Jacob III of Eltz, Archbishop of Trier and Elector (1567-1581)
Ignatius Jacob III of Bartella, Syrian clergyman, patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1957–1980)

Non-regenerated
James III. (England) James Francis Edward Stuart, Scottish-English pretender to the throne
Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski, crown prince of Poland
James VIII. (Scotland) is Jacob III. (England)

James
Note: The English-language name James is translated as Jakob in German.

Literature
John E. Morby, Dynasties of the World. A chronological and genealogical manual. Translated by Patrick Hersperger and Thomas Mei