King James IV of Scotland
1473 – 1513 · Generation XXII · King of Scots
James IV Stewart (1473–1513). King of Scots. Married Margaret Tudor in 1503. Fell at Flodden — the last British king killed in battle. He came to the throne at fifteen as figurehead of the rebellion in which his father died at Sauchieburn, and grew into the ruler widely judged the most successful of Scotland's Stewart kings. He expanded the royal navy to thirty-eight ships — among them the Great Michael, then the biggest warship afloat — brought the printing press to Scotland, saw the University of Aberdeen and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh founded, and made schooling compulsory by the Education Act of 1496. Royal income doubled under him, and the last independent Lord of the Isles was brought down. When Henry VIII carried his war into France in 1513, James stood by the Auld Alliance at the price of his sworn peace with England and marched south at the head of a great army.
Partners
- Married Margaret Tudor (1489 – 1541) in 1503 — one child together
Children
- King James V of Scotland (1512 – 1542)
Life
- 1473 — Born
- 1488 — James IV becomes king
- 1502 — Marriage contract between James IV and Margaret Tudor signed by King James
- 1503 — Married Margaret Tudor
- 1503 — King James IV marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England. The marriage was known as the Union of the Thistle and the Rose.
- 1513 — Died
- 1513 — James IV invades England to support his French allies after the English king, Henry VIII, invades France. James and most of the Scottish nobility and clergy are slaughtered by the English army at the Battle of Flodden Field