James V Stuart 
James V was born on April 10th, 1512 in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland. James V's father was James IV Stuart and his mother was Margaret Tudor. His paternal grandparents were James III Stuart and Margaret Oldenburg; his maternal grandparents were Henry VII King of England and Elizabeth Plantagenet. He had two brothers and a sister, named Arthur, Alexander and Margaret. He was the second youngest of the four children. He had two half-sisters named Margaret and Dorothea.General Notes
James V (1513-42) When James IV was kil led at Flodden, yet another royal minority ensued, for his son James V was only one year old. 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. Queen Margaret's tempestuous private life complicated her son's childhood, and after she divorced her 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.
James' personal rule began by savagely pursuing his opponents and he hounded the Earl of Angus out of Scot land. James combined suspicion of nobles with a popular touch, travelling anony mously among Scottish people as the 'Gudeman o'Ballengeich'. John Knox describe d 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'.
In 1536 he decided to marry. A highly strung, intelligent man who alte rnated between black depression and bouts of feverish energy, he had already fa thered at least nine illegitimate children by a series of mistresses. He now chose as his wife Princess Madeleine of France, for he was eager to strengthen 'the Auld Alliance' against England. The Princess was tubercular, and she died in his arms on 7 July 1537, seven weeks after her arrival in Edinburgh. In 1538 he married another French lady, the widowed Mary of Guise, tall, well-built and already the mother of two sons. She had two more sons by James but they both died in infancy within hours of each other in 1541.
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 November 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 that 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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1337 in Dundonald, Argyllshire, Scotland d.04 Apr 1406 in Castle Rothesay, Dundonald, Ayrshire
- b.Dec 1394 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.20 FEB 1435/36 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1350 in Stobhall, Cargill, Perthsire, Scotland d.1401 in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.16 Oct 1430 in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Scotland d.03 Aug 1460 in Roxburghs Castle, Kelso, Scotland
- b.~ 1370 in Beaufort Castle, Anjou, France d.21 Apr 1410 in England
- b.1406 in Westminster, Co Middlesex, England d.1445
- b.~ 1375 in Upholland, Lancastershire, England d.30 Dec 1439
- b.10 Jul 1451 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.11 Jun 1488 in Sauchieburn, St. Ninian's, Stirlingshire
- b.1400
- b.~ 1432 in Grave, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands d.16 Nov 1463 in Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.18 MAR 1471/72 in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland d.09 Sep 1513 in Battle of Flodden, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1340 d.1399
- b.~ 1390 d.22 JAN 1438/39
- b.1340 d.01 Sep 1404
- b.21 May 1425 in Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn, Denmark d.1481
- b.~ 1370 d.04 Aug 1404
- b.~ 1400 d.1436
- b.~ 1375
- b.23 Jun 1456 in Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn, Denmark d.14 Jul 1486 in Stirlingshire, Lochawe, Scotland
- b.1371 d.21 Sep 1440
- b.1406 d.16 Nov 1464
- b.1383 d.13 Nov 1442
- b.1430
- b.1367
- b.1405 d.10 Oct 1465
- b.1372 d.09 May 1436
- b.10 Apr 1512 in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland
- b.< 1367 d.> 1402
- b.1402 in Snowden, Wales d.2 FEB 1460/61 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1380
- b.1430 in Hadham, Bedfordshire, England d.01 Nov 1456 in Carmarthen Castle
- b.03 Dec 1368 in Paris, France d.22 Oct 1422 in Paris, France
- b.27 Oct 1401 in Hotel St. Pol, Paris, France d.3 JAN 1436/37 in Bermondsey Abbey, England
- b.1370 in Ingolstadt, Bavaria d.24 Sep 1435
- b.28 JAN 1456/57 in Pembroke Castle, England d.05 Apr 1509
- b.~ 1370 in Beaufort Castle, Anjou, France d.21 Apr 1410 in England
- b.25 Mar 1404 in Wimborne, Co Dorset, England d.27 May 1444
- b.~ 1375 in Upholland, Lancastershire, England d.30 Dec 1439
- b.Apr 1441 in Bletso, Bedfordshire, England d.05 Jul 1509 in Westminster Palace, London, England
- b.~ 1385 in Bletsoe, Bedford, England d.1412
- b.~ 1410 in Bletsoe, Bedford, England d.1482
- b.~ 1390 in Upholland, Lancastershire, England
- b.29 Nov 1489 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England d.18 Oct 1541 in Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1375 in Coinsbrough Castle, York, England d.05 Aug 1415 in Beheaded, South Hampton Green, South Hampton, England
- b.21 Sep 1411 in Coinsbrough Castle, York, England d.30 Dec 1460 in Battle of Wakefield, York, England
- b.27 Dec 1388 in Usk, Monmouth, England
- b.28 Apr 1442 in Rouen, France d.09 Apr 1483 in Westminster, England
- b.1364 in Raby, Durham, England d.21 Oct 1425 in Raby Castle, Durham, England
- b.03 May 1415 in Raby, Durham, England d.31 May 1495 in Berkhamstead Castle, Hertsfordshire, England
- b.1379 in Beaufort Castle, Anjou, France d.13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England
- b.11 FEB 1464/65 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1385 in Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England d.1442
- b.~ 1405 in Maidstone, Kent, England d.1469 in Executed by King Richard III
- b.~ 1385 in Bedlisgate, Northamptonshire, England d.17 Jul 1448
- b.~ 1435 in Regis, Northampton, England d.08 Jun 1492 in St Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, London
- b.1390 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.31 Aug 1433
- b.~ 1416 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.30 Apr 1472
- b.1394 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.1469
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James V and Marie were married in a religious ceremony on May 9th, 1538. They had two sons and a daughter, named James, Arthur and Mary.
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Children
Mary Stuart
Mary was born on December 7th, 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. She died in Executed at Fotheringhay.
They had a son named John.
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