I don't really have a problem with that considering the way the Catholic church is/was setup. King James was far from a perfect man, and really the KJV didn't necessarily taylor to his views of life considering he possibily had relations with other men. The Bible was credited to him because of his bringing together Puritans, and bishops at the Hampton court conference in 1604.

The Geneva Bible was the Bible of choice before in England homes, but the bishops of the Catholic and newly formed Church of England by Elizabeth used the "Bishop's Bible". James gave the permission for a new translation of the Bible to be brought forth from the Hebrew or Greek texts. I think mainly Hebrew. Somewhere around 48-50 theologians with Hebrew/Greek backgrounds were dived into 3 groups and broke the Bible down into parts not working together to form what most have used for the last 500 years as the Holy Bible.