JAMES V, King of Scotland. — Born at Linlithgow on 10 April 1512, died at Falkland on 12 December 1542. After the regency of his mother, he was deemed capable of governing in 1524. In 1528, having freed himself from Angus, leader of the Anglophile party, he reverted to the traditional policy of his predecessors, aimed at subduing the nobles and centralizing power. To this end he secured the support of the clergy, thanks both to his resistance to English encroachments on the political plane and on the religious one. The rivalry culminated in the war that Henry VIII waged against Scotland (1542), after the king’s nephew had rejected every overture to ally against Rome. Abandoned by his barons, James V saw Scotland invaded and died shortly after the defeat at Solway Moss, leaving as his sole legitimate heir his daughter, Mary Stuart.
GIACOMO V, RE DI SCOZIA
BIBL.: P. Hume Brown, History of Scotland, II, Cambridge 1902. For further bibliography V. Conyers Read, Scotland, in Bibliography of British history; Tudor period, 1485-1601, Oxford 1933.