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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Gerardus Mercator, James V of Scotland, Galeazzo Alessi, Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Adrianus Turnebus, Rodrigo de Quiroga, Diego Laynez, Marcin Kromer, Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi, Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Henry, King of Portugal, Melchor Bravo de Saravia, Wolfgang Uhle, Cristoforo Madruzzo, Friedrich Staphylus, Nils Sture, Miko aj "the Red" Radziwi, Diego de Covarubias y Leyva, Paulus Manutius, Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Sybille of Cleves, Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, Diego de Covarrubias, Antonio da Ponte, Thomas Grynaeus, Henry Jerningham, John Man, Devlet I Giray, Prospero Fontana, Lazzaro Calvi, James Brooks, Battista Angolo del Moro, George Blagge, Giovanni Padovani, Tomaso Cimello, Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings, Juan Paez De Castro, Rodolfo Baglioni, Isabella of Navarre, Viscountess of Rohan, Domingo de Salazar, Pedro Agustin, John Freeston, It Yoshisuke, Thomas Sebillet, Francesco Vimercato, Fukubara Hirotoshi. Excerpt: James V (10 April 1512 - 14 December 1542) 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. The son of King James IV of Scotland and his queen, Margaret Tudor of England, he was born on 10 April 1512, at Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgowshire, and was just seventeen months old when his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field on 9 September 1513. He was crowned in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on 21 September 1513. During his childhood, the country was ruled by regents, first by his mother, Margaret Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII of England), until she remarried the following year, and thereafter by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, who was himself next in line for the throne af...
