James of Scotland, V, King of Scots

James of Scotland, V, King of Scots

Male 1512 - 1542  (30 years)

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  • Name James of Scotland 
    Suffix V, King of Scots 
    Birth 10 Apr 1512  Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 Dec 1542  Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I45570  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 18 Mar 2016 

    Father James IV of Scotland, King of Scots,   b. 17 Mar 1473, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Sep 1513, Battle of Flodden, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years) 
    Mother Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots,   b. 28 Nov 1489, Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Oct 1541, Methven Castle, Perthshire, Kingdom of Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Marriage Y  [3
    Family ID F16631  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary of Guise 
    Marriage 0___ 1538  [1
    Children 
     1. Mary Stuart, I, Queen of Scots,   b. 8 Dec 1542, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Feb 1587, Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
    Family ID F16632  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 10 Apr 1512 - Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 14 Dec 1542 - Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    James V (10 April 1512 - 14 December 1542)
    James V (10 April 1512 - 14 December 1542)
    was King of Scots from 9 September 1513 until his death, which followed the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss.

    His only surviving legitimate child, Mary, succeeded him as Queen when she was just six days old.

  • Notes 
    • James V (10 April 1512 - 14 December 1542) was King of Scots from 9 September 1513 until his death, which followed the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss. His only surviving legitimate child, Mary, succeeded him as Queen when she was just six days old.

      Early life

      James was son of King James IV of Scotland and his queen Margaret Tudor, a daughter of Henry VII of England, and was the only legitimate child of James IV to survive infancy. He was born on 10 April 1512, at Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgowshire and christened the next day, receiving the titles Duke of Rothesay and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland.[1] He became king at just seventeen months old when his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field on 9 September 1513.

      James was crowned in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on 21 September 1513. During his childhood, the country was ruled by regents, first by his mother, until she remarried the following year, and then by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, who was next in line to the Crown after James and his younger brother, the posthumously-born Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross. Other regents included Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, a member of the Council of Regency who was also bestowed as Regent of Arran, the largest island in the Firth of Clyde. In February 1517, James came from Stirling to Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, but during an outbreak of plague in the city he was moved to the care of Antoine d'Arces at nearby rural Craigmillar Castle.[2] At Stirling, the 10-year-old James had a guard of 20 footmen dressed in his colours, red and yellow. When he went to the park below the Castle, "by secret and in right fair and soft wedder (weather)," six horsemen would scour the countryside two miles roundabout for intruders.[3] Poets wrote their own nursery rhymes for James and advised him on royal behavior. As a youth, his education was in the care of University of St Andrews poets such as Sir David Lyndsay.[4] William Stewart, in his poem Princelie Majestie, counselled James against ice-skating:

      To princes als it is ane vyce,

      To ryd or run over rakleslie,
      Or aventure to go on yce,
      Accordis nocht to thy majestie

      To view more images, history & commentary, click on this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V_of_Scotland

  • Sources 
    1. [S9245] "James V of Scotland" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V_of_Scotland, retrieved March 18, 2016 by David A.

    2. [S9247] "James IV of Scotland", biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_IV_of_Scotland, retrieved March 18, 2016 by David.

    3. [S9243] "Margaret Tudor" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tudor, retrieved MSarch 18, 2016 by David A. Hennesse.