James V of Scotland

James V, English: James V (Linlithgow Palace, 10, 11 or 15 april 1512 – Falkland Palace, 14 december 1542) was King of Scots from 1513 to 1542.

His father, James IV, was killed in the battle of Flodden Field (1513) when James was just one year old. His mother was Margaret Tudor. James was immediately crowned King after the death of his father because the Scots did not want his mother, an English, would possess the power over Scotland. The country was ruled by Regents during his youth, first his mother until she remarried, and then John Stewart, Duke of Albany. The stepfather of James V, Archibald Douglas, seized the power, put James V and regent John chased trapped in Edinburgh Castle. But they freed him when Margaret drove out, her son and he started his actual duties as King.

James V was a legendary person by posing as an ordinary man for doing so and to go among his subjects because he wanted to see how their life was.

He died on 14 december 1542 at the age of 30, six days after his second wife, Mary of Guise, the life to a daughter had donated. His two sons were very young and the infant died, was immediately proclaimed Queen of Scotland. As Maria I Stuart (also: "Mary, Queen of Scots") they ruled until 1567. ==Marriage and children[ Edit] == Henry VIII of England King James V for his anti-Catholic campaign tried to win, but he did not matter. And possible to offend, Henry VIII He married 2 French women.

On 1 January 1537, he married Magdalena of Valois, the daughter of Francis I of France, but these died a few months later. Thereupon, he married Mary of Guise with whom he had three children:

James V fathered nine illegitimate children with multiple mistresses sure [1]  among other things:
 * James Stewart (april22 may 1540 - 1541)
 * Arthur Stewart (1541 -april 1541)
 * Maria Stuart (8 december 1542 – 8 February 1587)


 * Robert Stewart (1533-1590) at Euphemia Elphinstone
 * James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531-1570) at Margaret Erskine
 * John Stewart (circa 1531-1563) at Elizabeth Carmichael