death_date birth_date reign father house death_place image_size coronation spouse image caption predecessor succession birth_place issue successor mother article_title more
14 december 1542 10 april 1512 9 september 1513 -- 14 december 1542 james iv of scotland house of stewart falkland palace , fife 201 21 september 1513 madeleine -lrb- 1538 -- 42 -rrb- of valois -lrb- 1537 -rrb- mary of guise james v of scotland2.jpg anonymous portrait of james v , probably contemporary james iv king of scots linlithgow palace , linlithgow robert , 1st earl of moray mary , queen of scots stewart , 1st earl of orkney james stewart mary i margaret tudor james v of scotland
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james v of scotland

james v -lrb- 10 april 1512 -- 14 december 1542 -rrb- was king of scots from 9 september 1513 until his death , which followed the scottish defeat at the battle of solway moss .
his only surviving legitimate child , mary , succeeded him to the throne when she was just six days old .
he came from a truly royal bloodline .
his father , both grandfathers and three of his great-grandfathers had been kings themselves -lrb- see ancestry family tree at the end -rrb- .
