S2.41 James V

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🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Scotland's imagination in naming royal babies had really run out by 1513 when the fifth successive became king. At just 17 months old, and following the disaster of Flodden, once again it would be tricky for the new king to make his mark. Would James V break through the chaotic power play of his minority, see off the most difficult of difficult of neighbours in Henry VIII and live up to the glorious reputation of his father? Would he break the pattern of the previous James's and actually live into middle age? Most importantly of all, does he have the Rex Factor? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:14.0	This week, James the 5th.
0:30.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Pally Hood. Hello! Hello!
0:31.0	And welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from Kenneth Mcaupin to James the 6th
0:37.2	This week James the 5th. So we are very very close to the end now.
0:41.3	Very close. Good grief Now last time we had a very impressive chap, James the 4th.
0:46.0	Awesome.
0:47.0	But what he didn't do in a way was actually break the pattern of previous Jameses,
0:51.0	because we'd had four Jameses in a row all of
0:54.1	them start off with largely chaotic minorities they finally come of age so a lot of
0:58.7	early promise get a prestigious marriage and then die early at the peak of
1:02.1	their powers in some kind of
1:03.2	violent or ridiculous way. Yeah that was such a shame. So James the fourth probably the
1:08.5	best of them this Renaissance king this sort of golden age in Scotland everybody loves
1:12.4	him he's
1:12.8	faded in Europe married to Margaret Tudor the older sister of Henry the 8th
1:16.9	but then in 1513 at the Battle of Flodden James and basically an entire
1:20.5	generation of nobles all get killed whilst invading Northern England and
1:25.0	they've got to start all over again. I reckon we're not going to have the time
1:31.6	any time when you get a great king passing on to a great
1:35.1	king we had all the brotherly business before yeah and we're it we're so close to
1:39.7	the end we are I was hoping as had great well I'm pinning all my hopes on James the fifth that's what I'm doing now.
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