He was buried at Holyrood in a tomb constructed by David Lindsay. He died on Thursday 15 December, in much grief and discomfort. On 6 December, James fell ill and was on his deathbed at Falkirk Palace when his daughter Mary was born. A month later they lost the Battle of Solway Mass. However, at Louder his nobles were reluctant to invade English borders further and so set about returning to Edinburgh. He resisted the acts of the Reformation by keeping the Abbeys and Monasteries active, but obtained Papal permission to tax them.īy 1541 Mary Tudor had died and James saw no reason to maintain the peace with England, winning the initial Battle of Haddon Rig in August 1542. He also tightened control of the Royal estates and coffers.
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He surrounded himself with statesman, nobles and professional lawyers. Some of his first acts were to besiege and then banish the Douglas family, subdue the border rebels and and the chiefs of the Western Isles. Scotland was ruled by a number of regents until 1524 when James dismissed them all having been declared adult by his mother. He was christened the following day as Duke of Rothesay and Prince & Grand Steward of Scotland.ĩ September 1513, aged only 17 months, his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field and he was declared king, being crowned at the chapel Royal in Stirling Castle on 21 September 1513. James V was born 10 April 1512 to James IV of Scotland and his Queen Mary Tudor (sister of Henry VIII). The vault also contains the coffin of Mary of Gueldres, Queen of James II which was removed in 1848 from Trinity Church, Edinburgh.
In 1898 Queen Victoria ordained a repair of the vault and the remains of those previously interred here were re-buried in one coffin. In 1688 the tomb was violated during the riots at the end of James VII's reign and it's contents were left in disorder. Here were placed the coffins of James V, Magdalen his first Queen, and his infant sons by his second marriage to Mary of Guise. This simple vault was built, after the eastern part of this abbey church, enclosing the Royal tombs, was destroyed by the English army in 1544. Holyrood Abbey and Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland
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