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3 unusual facts about James V of Scotland


Benedetto Accolti the Younger

In addition, James V of Scotland appointed him Cardinal-Protector of Scottish affairs at Rome, dealing with church appointments and negotiations for the King's marriage.

Louis I, Cardinal of Guise

Louis de Lorraine (October 21, 1527, Joinville, Champagne – March 29, 1578, Paris) was the fourth son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, and the younger brother of Charles of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Mary of Guise, queen consort of King James V of Scotland.

Warblington

In October 1551, Mary of Guise the widow of James V of Scotland stayed a night in the castle as a guest of Sir Richard Cotton.


Bede House, Old Aberdeen

The story of a Bede House in Old Aberdeen starts in 1531 when Bishop Gavin Dunbar of St Machar Cathedral, under the instruction of James V of Scotland, had built a hospital for the elderly poor in Old Aberdeen.

Cruggleton Castle

On that date Earl of Moray wrote Sir Patrick Vaus to intervene between the Flemings and his brother Lord Robert Stewart, Commendator of Whithorn and later Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney also an illegitimate son of James V of Scotland.

By AD1569 Cruggleton Castle was in possession of Lord Regent James Stewart Earl of Moray illegitimate son of James V of Scotland and regent for his nephew James VI and I.

John Lyon, 7th Lord Glamis

Along with his mother, who had married as her second husband Archibald Campbell of Skipnish, Glamis and others were in July 1537 placed on trial on the charge of conspiring to cause the death of James V of Scotland by poison.

Jordan Burn

Since the leaders of Britain's gypsy communities often styled themselves Kings of 'Little Egypt', it has been surmised that the name indicates a gypsy presence on the muir in the 16th century when "Egyptianis" are mentioned in several official documents from the reign of James V.

Thomas Trahern

On 12 November 1542, the Earl of Hertford sent Trahern to James V of Scotland from Sir Robert Tyrwhitt's house at Kettleby in Lincolnshire.

William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton

William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton (c.1540 - 1606) was the son of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven and Margaret Erskine, a former mistress of James V of Scotland.


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