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James IV

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James IV
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(Biographies / James IV (1473-1513) M, Scottish, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1473-1513, king of Scotland (1488-1513), son of James III; he invaded England (1496) in support of Perkin Warbeck; he was killed at Flodden
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Noun1.James IVJames IV - a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
Stuart - the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714


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to the death of James IV in 1513, this "long survey" (7) is structured around the reigns of the Stuart kings.
Edington delivers an account of the signal political and religious difficulties during the short reign of James IV and the long reign in minority of James V, a monarch under the careful eye of a master of encomium, satire, and apocalypse, who, up to a rupture with Henry VIII's sister, Margaret Tudor, was usher and tutor of James V, and who eventually gained a post as both as quasi-laureate and leading heraldic expert and propagandist of the Stuart monarchy.
 
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