King James V of Scotland
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Portrait of James
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| King of Scotland | |
| Reign | 9 September 1513 – 14 December 1542 |
| Coronation | 21 September 1513 |
| Predecessor | James IV |
| Successor | Mary I |
| Born |
10 April 1512 Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Scotland |
| Died | 14 December 1542 (aged 30) Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland |
| Burial | Holyrood Abbey |
| Spouse |
Madeleine of Valois (1537) Mary of Guise (1538–42) |
| Issue more... |
Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney James Stuart, 1st Earl of Moray Mary, Queen of Scots |
| House | Stuart |
| Father | James IV |
| Mother | Margaret Tudor |
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Royal styles of James V, King of Scots |
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| Reference style | His Grace |
| Spoken style | Your Grace |
| Alternative style | Schir (sire) |
James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was King of Scotland 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 when she was just six days old.
James was son of King James IV of Scotland and his wife Margaret Tudor, a daughter of Henry VII of England and sister of Henry VIII, and was the only legitimate child of James IV to survive infancy. He was born on 10 April 1512 at Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgowshire and baptized the following day, receiving the titles Duke of Rothesay and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. 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, 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. 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. 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.William Stewart, in his poem Princelie Majestie, counselled James against ice-skating:
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