#james iv

[elizabethboleyn]

JAMES IV, KING OF SCOTLAND in the Starz Royalty Collection

As shown in The White Princess, Episode Six - English Blood on English Soil, the actor was uncredited. As shown in The Spanish Princess, Part One, Episode Five - Heart Versus Duty, the actor was uncredited. As shown in The Spanish Princess, Part Two, Episode One - Camelot and Episode Two - Flodden, as portrayed by Ray Stevenson.

[verecunda]

From a review of a biography of Margaret Tudor:

[James IV] himself emerges as a charismatic, capable and truly dedicated ruler - a rarity in an age of egotistical kings. He is a loving husband, if not a loyal one. Affable, intelligent and sensitive, the fact that he enjoyed picking up a needle and thread and partaking in embroidery alongside his wife makes him endearing at a distance of five centuries.

(BBC History magazine, Aug. 2024)

James IV really was a babe, wasn't he? 🥰 This isn't really my period, but every time I read anything about him I'm like, yeah, I can understand why he had all those mistresses. Every woman in Scotland was probably like "...okay, we'll share him." XD

[littlehistorian]

Equestrian portrait of James IV of Scotland.

[margaritiques]

For 23 consecutive years that he [Henry VIII] was with his wife with so much love she [Katharine of Aragon] ruled not only his kingdom but also his person, and while outside his kingdom she won the battle against the King of Scotland [James IV], his enemy, and killed him on the battlefield (Judith did no greater feat in killing Holofernes).

Excerpt from a letter by Dr. Garay to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 17th October 1530.

[asterionides]

By 17 September 1514 those that had supported Margaret, the Bishops of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Galloway and the earls of Arran, Huntly and Home were considering whether she had the right to the tutrix of the young King. . . . The reason for the volte-face by her nobles was because she and Angus had been married in a secret ceremony in August 1514. Perry expresses the canonical view that ‘in one moment of womanly weakness and romantic folly, Margaret Tudor had effectively destroyed her own powerbase.’ While this move brought Scotland to the brink of civil war, her reasons may have been more hard-headed. She and her children were vulnerable in a country largely controlled by a fractious and factious nobility that had no love of her brother Henry VIII, her countrymen and no great affection for her. A marriage with one of Scotland’s greatest nobles was potentially a means of helping her to protect her sons. To marry outside of the realm would have meant leaving her two infant sons behind. It is likely that she knew of her mother’s brothers, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, the princes in the tower, who disappeared in the hands of their uncle the future Richard III. This would have weighed heavily on her mind. . . . From a queenship perspective, Margaret had, up to the point where she had remarried without consent of her council, acted as a noble and competent widow, mother and Regent. James IV had been secure enough in her abilities to trust her with the role in his will. Margaret had already demonstrated before his death that she was an able and trusted peacemaker having supported Scotland’s needs before those of her father or brother. She followed this practice as Regent. She had an excellent understanding of the domestic, religious and international affairs of Scotland, and had for the first year as Regent, managed with some success to secure the allegiance of the majority of the nobles. Her marriage to Angus was, however, a mistake.

Lorna G. Barrow, 'Queenship and the Challenge of a Widowed Queen: Margaret Tudor Regent of Scotland 1513–1514', Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, 16

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, March 17th:

Shijo, Emperor of Japan, 1231

James IV, King of Scotland, 1473

Elisabeth Auguste of Neuburg, Hereditary Princess of Sulzbach, 1693

Patricia of Connaught, British Princess, 1886

Abdul Muntaqim, Prince of Brunei, 2007

[roehenstart]

James IV, King of Scotland. By William Essex.

[dontdenymeshakespeare]

The Thistle and the Rose

As much as I pride myself on searching out the stories of unknown and lesser known women from history, Margaret Tudor is not a figure I knew much beyond the basics and the places where her life overlaps that of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. There’s always been a part of me that has had an itch to learn more about the mother and sisters of Henry VIII, so maybe this is the beginning of that…

The Thistle and the Rose