King James V of Scotland
1512 – 1542 · Generation XXIII · King of Scots · House of Stuart
James V Stewart (1512–1542). King of Scots. Married Mary of Guise in 1538. Crowned at seventeen months and long kept in the custody of his stepfather the Earl of Angus, he opened his personal rule in 1528 by driving Angus into exile and seizing Douglas lands. He filled the treasury by tightening his grip on royal estates, justice and customs, founded the College of Justice in 1532, and moved against lawlessness in the Borders and the Hebrides. Playing France, England and the Empire against one another lent him unusual diplomatic weight, and Pope Paul III named him Defender of the Faith in 1537. A patron of the arts who spent lavishly on Renaissance palaces, he died within weeks of the Scottish defeat at Solway Moss.
Place in the family
- King James V of Scotland was a nephew of King Henry VIII.
- The archive records 108 of his descendants, across 17 generations.
One of 17 people of House of Stuart (from 1371) in this archive. Scotland’s royal house for three centuries before James VI inherited England and wore both crowns.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland.
Parents
- King James IV of Scotland (1473 – 1513)
- Margaret Tudor (1489 – 1541)
Siblings
- Margaret Douglas (1515 – 1578) (half)
Partners
- Married Mary of Guise (1515 – 1560) in 1538 — one child together
Children
- Mary Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587)
Life
- 1512 — Born
- 1513 — The infant James V becomes king
- 1538 — Married Mary of Guise
- 1542 — Died
- 1542 — James invades England but is defeated at the Battle of Solway Moss and dies a few weeks later. His daughter, the one-week-old Mary, succeeds