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This is the Tudor's Dynasty podcast.

And now a brief history.

At 4 p.m. on the 9th of September, 1513, the armies of England and Scotland came face to face near the village of Brankston in Northumberland. The subsequent brutal battle ended with the death of James IV of Scotland

and is known today as the Battle of Flodden. Relations between the two countries had been

volatile since the end of the wars of Scottish independence.

Just 26 years previously, James IV had led an army into England and besieged Norm Castle.

James' marriage to Margaret Tudor in 1502 and the accompanying Anglo-Skottish treaty had brought a brief period of cooperation.

But by Henry the 7th's death in 1509, it was already under strain.

In contrast to his father, Henry VIII was an energetic young man who was passionate about jousting, hunting, and warfare.

It was his ambition to establish his military reputation with a war against France.

By the end of 1511, he had joined the Holy League against France,

and tensions with Scotland were continuing to increase.

With the English Parliament reasserting overlordship over their neighbor, James

the fourth agreed to resurrect the old alliance with France.

The Franco-Scottish agreement of 1512 stated that James and Louis X12th would declare war

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