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JAMES V (King of Scotland, 1513-1542). Letter signed, with autograph subscription ('Vostre bon Cousin James R') to the Constable of France (Anne de Montmorency), Leith, 6 March n.y. [1538], in French, acknowledging and thanking him for letters and saying that he is sending the Cardinal of St. Andrews to the King, 'J'envoye presentement mon cousin le cardinal de Sainct Andre pardevers le Roy mon pere suyvent ce que luy a pleu me mander derniermen', and as the cardinal will convey certain matters to his correspondent a longer letter is not necessary, one page, 200 x 210mm, addressed on verso 'A mon Cousin Monsieur le Connestable', papered seal, annotations in contemporary and later hands (light soiling and small tears in fold of blank portion of leaf).
The French King, Francis I, was James V's father-in-law by his brief marriage to the King's elder daughter, Madeleine (d.1537). David Beaton (1494-1546), Cardinal and later Archbishop of St. Andrews, negotiated James's marriages both to Madeleine and in 1538 to Mary of Guise, widow of the Duke of Longueville. It is to this second mission that the letter refers. The marriage was celebrated at St. Andrews a few months later. Mary, Queen of Scots, their daughter was born in 1542, one week before James's death.
The French King, Francis I, was James V's father-in-law by his brief marriage to the King's elder daughter, Madeleine (d.1537). David Beaton (1494-1546), Cardinal and later Archbishop of St. Andrews, negotiated James's marriages both to Madeleine and in 1538 to Mary of Guise, widow of the Duke of Longueville. It is to this second mission that the letter refers. The marriage was celebrated at St. Andrews a few months later. Mary, Queen of Scots, their daughter was born in 1542, one week before James's death.