King James Stewart, V of Scotland
b. 10 April 1512, d. 14 December 1542
Person Exhibits

King James V
Birth
King James Stewart, V of Scotland, was born on 10 April 1512 in Linlithgow Palace.
Parents
Working life
- King James Stewart, V of Scotland, witnessed the occupation of Vice-admiral John ("the Ambassador") Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, 12th of Biggar, Cumbernauld, on 21 January 1517 as a Lord Chamberlain of Scotland.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
- 1,10,11,12,13,14,15
Death
King James Stewart, V of Scotland, died cholera or dysentry on 14 December 1542 at age 30 in Falkland Palace.
16,17 He was buried on 8 January 1543 in Holyrood Abbey.
Citations
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- [S51] Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicle, 1587 edition edited by Abraham Fleming (London: Henry Denham, 1587), Scotland, vol v, p 488, https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofengl05holiuoft/page/488/mode/2up; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/firstsecondvolum00holi/page/n1/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 18 February 2025.
- [S55] Thomas Rymer, Foedera (London: Joannem Neaulme, between 1704 and 1713), vol vi, p 138; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/fderaconventione01ryme : accessed.

- [S68] KM Brown and others, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, online (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, between 2007 and 2025), A1517/10/1; online transcription and translation, (https://www.rps.ac.uk/ : accessed 9 March 2025.


- [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 314; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.

- [S84] John Pinkerton, The History of Scotland: form the Accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary (London: C Dilly, 1797), vol ii, p 164; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41783/page/n3/mode/2up : accessed 30 March 2025.

- [S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 498.
- [S163] Matthew, and Gordon Donaldson Livingstone, editors, Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 11 vols (Edinburgh: General Register Hous, between 1908 and 1990), I, 446 (ch. 2856); online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registrumsecret00scotgoog/page/46/mode/2up : accessed.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 63.
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- [S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 499.
- [S121] A McDonald and others, Editors, Miscellany of the Maitland Club: consisting of Original Papers and Other Documents illustrative of the History and Literature of Scotland (Edinburgh: The Maitland Club, 1840), vol ii, p 494; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/miscellanyedbya00clubgoog/page/n6/mode/2up : viewed 16 May 2025.

- [S2] 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, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: viewed 25 April 2025), James V at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V.

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