NameJames V , King of Scotland ![](../img/i_tree.png)
Birth1512, Linlithgow Palace, Scotland
Death14 Dec 1542, Falkland Palace, Fife
BurialHolyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland
Notes for James V , King of Scotland
JAMES V, KING OF SCOTLAND
BORN: 10 APRIL 1512
DIED: 16 DECEMBER 1542
Son of Margaret Tudor and James IV. Became King of Scotland at less than a year old. Married Marie de Guise and fathered Mary (who became Queen of Scotland at six days old). Died after the Battle of Solway Moss.
NOTES: He was 17 months old when his father (James IV) was killed. His mother acted as regent until her marriage in 1514 to Archibald, 6th earl of Angus. In 1525, during the continued struggle for control of the country, James was taken prisoner by his stepfather. Three years later the King escaped and assumed control of Scotland. His uncle, Henry VIII, King of England, tried to induce James to repudiate the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, but James refused, and relations between England and Scotland became strained; in 1542 war broke out.
Notes for Mary (Spouse 1)
Family: James V, King of Scotland
Marriage
1538
1. Mary STUART, Queen of Scots
NOTES: Queen consort (1538-42) of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (1554-60); also known as Mary of Lorraine. The widowed daughter of the French soldier Claude de Lorraine, 1st duc de Guise (1496-1550). Mary married King James in 1538. After his death in 1542, she engaged in a power struggle with James Hamilton, 3rd earl of Arran (c.1517-75), who had been appointed regent for his infant daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1548 she arranged her daughter's betrothal to the French Dauphin. Mary secured Arran's resignation and succeeded him as regent in 1554. When she began persecuting the Scottish Protestants in 1559, they rebelled against her. Both France and England intervened in the struggle, which ended with Mary's death.