Individual Details
James "King of Scots" Stewart
(15 Apr 1512 - 14 Dec 1542)
[[Category:House of Stewart]]
[[Category:Scottish Royalty]]
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== Biography ==
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== James V Stewart, King of Scotland ==
=== Vitals ===
: James Stewart
: b.15 Apr 1512 Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland.
: d. 14 Dec 1542; age 30; Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland
: Burial: Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
=== Parents ===
* James V's father [[Stewart-588|James IV Stewart]]
* James V's mother [[Tudor-33|Margaret Tudor]]
=== Titles ===
: Duke of Rothesay: 15 Apr 1512
: King James V of Scotland: 9 Sep 1513; Coronation: 21 Sep 1513
: James V was only a year old when his father was killed at Flodden. The Scots were reluctant to accept his English mother Margaret Tudor as Regent, and after her remarriage in 1514 they replaced her with James I V's half-French cousin, the Duke of Albany. Margaret's private life complicated her son's childhood, and after she divorced second husband, Archibald Douglas 6th Earl of Angus, the Earl kidnapped young James. For two years he held him captive, showering him with gifts and introducing him to a round of unsuitable pleasures. James loathed his former stepfather, and finally managed to escape in 1528, to rule by himself.
: Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.): 20 Jan 1535
== Marriages ==James Stewart married, first, [[Valois-240|Madelaine de Valois]], daughter of François I, Roi de France and Claude de Valois, Duchesse de Bretagne, on 1 Jan 1537 at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
He married, second, [[Guise-5|Marie de Guise]], daughter of Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, on 12 Jun 1538 at St. Andrews Cathedral, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Alternate date: 9 May 1538.
James was also reported to have been married by Proxy on 9 May 1538 at Paris, France.
=== Children of James Stewart and Marie de Guise ===
# James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (22 May 1540 - Apr 1541)
# Arthur Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. Apr 1541 - d. Apr 1541)
# Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland (b. 07 Dec 1542 - d. 8 Feb 1587)
=== Illegitimate Children ===# Adam Stewart, d. 20 Jun 1575; mother: Lady Elizabeth Stewart, dau. John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox
# James Stewart; mother: Christine Barclay# Jean Stewart, d.07 Jan 1588; mother: Elizabeth Bethune; m. Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll in 1553, divorced 1573
# James Stewart, 1529–1557; mother: [[Shaw-5044|Elizabeth Shaw]]# [[Stewart-10070|Robert Stewart]], 1st Earl of Orkney, b. c. 1533; d. 4 Feb 1592/93; mother: [[Elphinstone-11|Euphemia Elphinstone]]# John Stewart, Lord Darnley and Prior of Coldingham, b. c. 1531; d. Nov 1563; mother: Elizabeth Carmichael (1514-1550), who m. John Somerville of Cambusnethan; m. Jean (or Jane) Hepburn, sis and h. of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell# James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray; b. 1531; d. 20 Jan 1569/70; mother: [[Erskine-233|Margaret (Erskine) Douglas (1513-1572)]], James's favourite mistress
# Robert Stewart, Jr., d. 1581; mother unknown
# Margaret Stewart; mother unknown
== Reign ==James' personal rule began by savagely pursuing his opponents and he hounded the Earl of Angus out of Scotland. James combined suspicion of nobles with a popular touch, travelling anonymously among Scottish people as the 'Gudeman o'Ballengeich'. John Knox described him thus: 'he was called of some, a good poor man's king; of others he was termed a murderer of the nobility, and one that had decreed their whole destruction'.
James V's uncle, Henry VIII, who had by now broken with the Roman Catholic Church and dissolved the monasteries, was urging him to do the same. He refused to listen to his uncle's persuasions and in 1542 failed to go to an arranged meeting with Henry at York. Furious, Henry launched an invasion of Scotland. Already ill, James marched south with his army, to defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss on the Scottish/English Border, on 24 Nov 1542.
Although he himself had not been present at the battle, James suffered a complete nervous collapse. Retiring to Falkland Palace in Fife he took to his bed with a high fever and, when a messenger came to tell him that his pregnant queen had given birth to a daughter instead of the hoped-for son, he believed the Stewart dynasty was at an end. 'It cam wi' a lass and it will gang wi' a lass', he said, remembering how the crown had come to his family through Marjorie Bruce and fearing that no woman could ever rule his troubled nation. Six days later, he was dead.
=== Death ===James died on 14 Dec 1542, age 30, at Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. He was buried at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
== Sources ==
* [[Wikipedia: James V of Scotland]]
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* }* Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 240-2* Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008* Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 23
=== Acknowledgements ===
* [[Plummer-723|Linda Plummer]]* James-3416; Theberge_2012-07-23.ged Jul 24, 2012 [[Theberge-2 | Tim Theberge]]
* [[Vincent-624 | Judith Haste]]; Stewart-8219 20 Jul 13
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== Biography ==
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== James V Stewart, King of Scotland ==
=== Vitals ===
: James Stewart
: b.15 Apr 1512 Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland.
: d. 14 Dec 1542; age 30; Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland
: Burial: Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
=== Parents ===
* James V's father [[Stewart-588|James IV Stewart]]
* James V's mother [[Tudor-33|Margaret Tudor]]
=== Titles ===
: Duke of Rothesay: 15 Apr 1512
: King James V of Scotland: 9 Sep 1513; Coronation: 21 Sep 1513
: James V was only a year old when his father was killed at Flodden. The Scots were reluctant to accept his English mother Margaret Tudor as Regent, and after her remarriage in 1514 they replaced her with James I V's half-French cousin, the Duke of Albany. Margaret's private life complicated her son's childhood, and after she divorced second husband, Archibald Douglas 6th Earl of Angus, the Earl kidnapped young James. For two years he held him captive, showering him with gifts and introducing him to a round of unsuitable pleasures. James loathed his former stepfather, and finally managed to escape in 1528, to rule by himself.
: Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.): 20 Jan 1535
== Marriages ==James Stewart married, first, [[Valois-240|Madelaine de Valois]], daughter of François I, Roi de France and Claude de Valois, Duchesse de Bretagne, on 1 Jan 1537 at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
He married, second, [[Guise-5|Marie de Guise]], daughter of Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, on 12 Jun 1538 at St. Andrews Cathedral, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Alternate date: 9 May 1538.
James was also reported to have been married by Proxy on 9 May 1538 at Paris, France.
=== Children of James Stewart and Marie de Guise ===
# James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (22 May 1540 - Apr 1541)
# Arthur Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. Apr 1541 - d. Apr 1541)
# Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland (b. 07 Dec 1542 - d. 8 Feb 1587)
=== Illegitimate Children ===# Adam Stewart, d. 20 Jun 1575; mother: Lady Elizabeth Stewart, dau. John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox
# James Stewart; mother: Christine Barclay# Jean Stewart, d.07 Jan 1588; mother: Elizabeth Bethune; m. Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll in 1553, divorced 1573
# James Stewart, 1529–1557; mother: [[Shaw-5044|Elizabeth Shaw]]# [[Stewart-10070|Robert Stewart]], 1st Earl of Orkney, b. c. 1533; d. 4 Feb 1592/93; mother: [[Elphinstone-11|Euphemia Elphinstone]]# John Stewart, Lord Darnley and Prior of Coldingham, b. c. 1531; d. Nov 1563; mother: Elizabeth Carmichael (1514-1550), who m. John Somerville of Cambusnethan; m. Jean (or Jane) Hepburn, sis and h. of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell# James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray; b. 1531; d. 20 Jan 1569/70; mother: [[Erskine-233|Margaret (Erskine) Douglas (1513-1572)]], James's favourite mistress
# Robert Stewart, Jr., d. 1581; mother unknown
# Margaret Stewart; mother unknown
== Reign ==James' personal rule began by savagely pursuing his opponents and he hounded the Earl of Angus out of Scotland. James combined suspicion of nobles with a popular touch, travelling anonymously among Scottish people as the 'Gudeman o'Ballengeich'. John Knox described him thus: 'he was called of some, a good poor man's king; of others he was termed a murderer of the nobility, and one that had decreed their whole destruction'.
James V's uncle, Henry VIII, who had by now broken with the Roman Catholic Church and dissolved the monasteries, was urging him to do the same. He refused to listen to his uncle's persuasions and in 1542 failed to go to an arranged meeting with Henry at York. Furious, Henry launched an invasion of Scotland. Already ill, James marched south with his army, to defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss on the Scottish/English Border, on 24 Nov 1542.
Although he himself had not been present at the battle, James suffered a complete nervous collapse. Retiring to Falkland Palace in Fife he took to his bed with a high fever and, when a messenger came to tell him that his pregnant queen had given birth to a daughter instead of the hoped-for son, he believed the Stewart dynasty was at an end. 'It cam wi' a lass and it will gang wi' a lass', he said, remembering how the crown had come to his family through Marjorie Bruce and fearing that no woman could ever rule his troubled nation. Six days later, he was dead.
=== Death ===James died on 14 Dec 1542, age 30, at Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. He was buried at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
== Sources ==
* [[Wikipedia: James V of Scotland]]
* }
* }* Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 240-2* Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008* Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 23
=== Acknowledgements ===
* [[Plummer-723|Linda Plummer]]* James-3416; Theberge_2012-07-23.ged Jul 24, 2012 [[Theberge-2 | Tim Theberge]]
* [[Vincent-624 | Judith Haste]]; Stewart-8219 20 Jul 13
Events
| Birth | 15 Apr 1512 | Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland | |||
| Death | 14 Dec 1542 | Falkland, Fife, Scotland | |||
| Reference No | 1723524 | ||||
| Reference No | 1750030 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | James IV "King of England" Stewart King of Scots (1473 - 1513) |
| Mother | Margaret Tudor (1489 - 1541) |
| Sibling | James "Duke of Rothesay" Stewart (1507 - 1508) |
| Sibling | Unnamed Stewart (1508 - 1508) |
| Sibling | Arthur "Duke of Rothesay" Stewart (1509 - 1510) |
| Sibling | Unnamed Stewart (1513 - 1513) |
| Sibling | Alexander "Duke of Ross" Stewart (1514 - 1515) |