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unusual facts about James IV of Scotland


Harbottle

In 1515 Margaret Tudor, the widowed queen of James IV of Scotland and sister of Henry VIII, having been banished by the regent, the Duke of Albany, came to the castle with her second husband, the Earl of Angus.


Daniël Mijtens

Mijtens also made copies of old portraits of royal sitters, including; James IV of Scotland, his wife Margaret Tudor, and Mary, Queen of Scots.

George Learmond

Following the resignation of Robert Harwor he was nominated Prior of Pluscarden by King James IV of Scotland in March 1509.

Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney

In 1497 the king had prepared an army to invade Scotland to punish James IV for his support of Perkin Warbeck, and had given the command to Daubeney; but he has hardly marched when he was recalled ito put down the Cornish rebels, who came to Blackheath unmolested, and was criticised by the king.

Harbottle Castle

In 1515 Margaret Tudor, the widowed queen of James IV of Scotland and sister of Henry VIII, having been banished by the regent, the Duke of Albany, came to the castle with her second husband, the Earl of Angus.

James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran

Through his mother Margaret Douglas he was descended from James IV through an illegitimate daughter, and Joan of Scotland, daughter of James I.

Lord of the Isles

The civil war in England, known famously as the Wars of the Roses, prevented the activation of this alliance and on the discovery of his treason in 1493 John Macdonald II forfeited his estates and titles to James IV of Scotland.

Robert Cockburn

Cockburn was a university graduate, and appears for the first time in 1501 when he was presented to James IV of Scotland for the position of parson of Dunbar, being styled "Master Robert Cockburn, dean of Rouen".

Scottish trade in the Middle Ages

In 1508 James IV moved the Staple to the small port of Veere in the Province of Zealand, where it remained until the late seventeenth century.

The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland

John Damian was an Italian-born cleric who came to Scotland, at the start of the sixteenth century and became a protégé of King James IV.


see also

Arthur Stewart

Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (1509–1510), second son of James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor