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King James Stewart, V of Scotland

b. 10 April 1512, d. 14 December 1542

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King James V

Birth

King James Stewart, V of Scotland, was born on 10 April 1512 in Linlithgow Palace.

Parents

Father	King James Stewart, IV of Scotland (b. 17 March 1473, d. 9 September 1513)
Mother	Margaret ("daughter of King Henry VII of England") Tudor, Queen and Regent of Scotland (b. 28 November 1489, d. 18 October 1541)

Child with Mary ("Queen Dowager"), of Guise, (b. 22 November 1515, d. 11 June 1560)

Daughter

Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots+ (b. 8 December 1542, d. 8 February 1587)

Working life

King James Stewart, V of Scotland, witnessed the occupation of Vice-admiral John ("the Ambassador") Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, on 21 January 1517 as a Lord Chamberlain of Scotland.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
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Death

King James Stewart, V of Scotland, died cholera or dysentry on 14 December 1542 at age 30 in Falkland Palace. Following a few days spent at Linlithgow Palace with Queen Mary, who was in the final stages of her pregnancy, on 6 December James travelled to Falkland Palace, where he soon took ill.[81][16]^15,16 He was buried on 8 January 1543 in Holyrood Abbey.

Citations

[S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
[S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum, vol 14, p xliv
[S51] Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicle, Scotland, vol v, p 488, https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofengl05holiuoft/page/488/mode/2up
[S55] Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol vi, p 138
[S68] KM Brown and others, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, A1517/10/1
[S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, vol i, p 314
[S84] John Pinkerton, The History of Scotland, vol ii, p 164
[S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming, p 498
[S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 63
[S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum, vol 14, p cxxxv
[S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum, vol 14, p cxlii
[S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum, vol 14, p 463
[S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming, p 499
[S121] A McDonald and others, Miscellany of the Maitland Club, vol ii, p 494
[S2] Various contributors, Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed ), ., 1 April 2025; Battle of Solway Moss, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Solway_Moss
[S2] Various contributors, Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed ), ., viewed; 25 April 2025; James V at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V

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Last Edited

16 September 2025