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James IV
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(1473–1513) King of Scotland from 1488; son of James III and Margaret of Denmark; married Margaret Tudor (1503).
At the age of 15 James was with the rebels who defeated and then murdered his father in 1488 (a deed for which he was said to have worn an iron belt all his life as a penance), yet he became the first Scottish monarch for several generations to exert full control over his own nobles. He also greatly improved material conditions in Scotland and was a patron of learning and the arts.
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His antipathy to England misled him into supporting Perkin *Warbeck, but a few years later he married Margaret, the eldest daughter of *Henry VII – an alliance which later united the crowns of England and Scotland (see the *royal house). Relations deteriorated with the accession of *Henry VIII. In 1513 James invaded northern England and died in the disaster at *Flodden. He was succeeded by his son *James V.
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