hi so i'm bruce fumey and today's the
24th of june
now people tend to trace great britain
and then the united kingdom
to james vi who is a child in 1567 was
crowned king of scots
in the church behind me and then on the
death of elizabeth was crowned king of
england in 1603 now in truth they
should trace it back to his
great-grandad james iv
who was crowned king of scots on this
day
in scottish history and that is what
today's episode's about
hiya i'm bruce fumi from scotland
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let me tell you a story
now if you haven't been here to stirling
castle before then you should come
right you could easily spend a whole day
here right but the start of the day or
the end of the day
would be my advice it's the best of all
the castles to visit in scotland
and is the birthplace of king james iv
now the path his coronation is quite a
story
do you want to hear it now
i'm warning you in this story
everybody's called james and there are
no commas
so stay alert control the pauses
save lives now from outset
james that is the boy who would become
james iv was special
a comet had appeared in the southern sky
for a month before his birth
now looking back you can see it was
clearly an omen from the gods in the
birth of a great king
under whom scotland would be reborn as
the renaissance transformed europe
at that time though it was a breached
birth cosmologically speaking
astrologers said that the planets were
in the wrong position
prophecies were discovered of how danger
would come to the royal family
and witches warned the father that is
the current james the third at the time
that his downfall would be brought about
by the next of kin his next of kin
imagine if every time you filled in a
form where it says next to kin
you have to put the murderer
so the future james iv the baby
grew up never really known why his dad
never loved them
now i've had people criticize me for
talking about kings and queens
rather than ordinary people's lives but
anyone with any humanity has to break
their heart
for this wee boy surely
see when your dad james iii calls you
his first son
james but then when his second son your
wee brother comes along
your dad calls him james too
that'd make you think when you're
munching your cocoa pops wouldn't it
at least he always puts you down on
forums as the next of kin
now daddy james the third
had to find a bride for baby james and
wanted to
keep good relations with the english
they signed a managed treaty
with edward iv of england the only
problem was
that baby james grew up as england was
going through the wars of the roses
and every time the english king changed
we
james had a new fiance he had
three-year-old before he reached puberty
what a player when bb james is six years
old
his two uncles start rebellions against
daddy james iii
oh no he's been worrying about the wrong
next to ken all this time
so rebellious uncle number one dies
under suspicious circumstances
it's about time we had a witch burning
uncle number two
was imprisoned in edinburgh castle but
he got the guards drunk
escaped fled to france and then promised
the king of england
who's changed again by the way anything
that he wanted
for help to overthrow his brother that's
how we lost
beric upon tweed it was the last hold up
the crimean war if you know about that
then show off by giving a comment down
below
anyway uh we were talking about
uh dodgy anchor number two eventually he
fled to france and died from a jousting
wound
but not before it caused a rift between
daddy
james iii his wife the queen and
poor we james remember we james the
first
of two who'll become the fourth after
the third
don't worry you weren't supposed to
follow that i'm just saying
that now the king the queen and their
firstborn ear
are in a standoff like the closing
scenes of the good the bad and the ugly
james iii is a dodgy mexican guy by the
way
so we james is now nine years old his
dad
still doesn't speak to him but he does
arrange another marriage
and then he leaves him in the care of
his mum the queen
when we james is 13 his mum dies
was it poison nobody knows but daddy
james the third now leaves him
in the care of a guy called shaw of
sahih
his christian name james
by now if you're not starting to think
that james iii was a bit of a dick
then i'm not telling the story right of
course the people at the time
they didn't need me to tell the story
they knew him by his actions
and loads of an ability turned against
him
he totally mismanaged the situation
including
threatening powerful nobles breaking
promises and trying to get troops from
the english king
to fight against his own people i won't
bore you with the details here
but the bottom line is it all ended in a
standoff
on the 11th of june 1488
james iii finds himself a few miles from
here in a place called
soccer barn just the other side of
bannockburn with robert the bruce's
sword in his hand
a fast horse under his buttocks and his
largely paid troops on one side and on
the other side troops own allegiance
to the sun that he's despised and
rejected since birth now i know what
you're thinking
it's not the comment that alienates
people it's bad
parenting nevertheless if i was james
iii and i believed in witches horoscopes
and prophecy
i'd be kicking my pants at this point
he must have felt even worse when the
battle started to go badly
not being a man of courage he fled off
in his horse
now the story goes that he raced across
the bannock burn of robert the bruce
fame
and as he crossed the bannock burn uh he
gave a fright to a wee lassie
she was carrying a clay pot which he
dropped and when it smashed it
frightened the horse
the horse reared and the king fell from
the horse
now the local miller brought king james
back to his house nearby
and james explains that he's the king
and he wants a priest
the miller's wife sets off to look for a
priest and she meets a guy who happens
to be passing by
priests you say who's it for the
miller's
wife explains it as the king right he
comes back to the house
recognizes it as the king he asks the
king if he thinks he'll survive
and the king says oh yes i will but i'd
still like to see a priesthood minister
of the sacrament
the guy knowing the king says i'll do
that
and stabs him in the heart and he wasn't
even next to kin
the next day james the
actual next of kin declares himself king
james iv
and just under two weeks later on the
24th of june
the fourth james of scotland was crowned
at schoon
on this day in scottish history
now we're told that james has instructed
that his father wasn't to be harmed in
the battle
nevertheless for the rest of his life
james wore a heavy iron chain around his
waist
as a penance for lent or was it father's
day
disney matter james was a true
renaissance king with interest in
education
science and the arts he was the first
scottish monarch
to require education by law
he was the last scottish monarch to die
in battle
so maybe he paid his penance after all
but he was
transformational for scotland he was one
of the great royal builders
he built the first real navy but fulton
palace
lithgow palace hollywood palace all bear
the hand
of james iv and here at stirling castle
where he was born he built the great
16th century facade and the great hall
still radiates its orange beacon to this
day
i know it's not radiated it's reflected
check out the video that it did on the
physicist
james clark maxwell okay
uh james of force buildings are at the
core of stirling castle and i'm sure
i'll come back here
and do further episodes here in the
future uh
but you should go there too you should
also
go and see la little palace
15 years after his coronation he finally
married his english bride she was
margaret tudor
the elder sister of henry viii of
england and it's this manage of tudor
and stuart thistle and rose that was the
root
of the united kingdom if you come here
to analytical palace you can climb
uh queen margaret's tower there behind
me it was there that she sat
each day watching and waiting for her
husband
james iv to return from battle against
our brother
henry viii he never did
but here at la little palace margaret
had given birth to their son
james the fifth also here at linlithgo
palace
james the fifth's wife mary deguise gave
birth to their daughter
mary queen of scots and on the death of
elizabeth of england
mary's son james vi of scotland
became james the first of england
now there's so much more to tell about
his great granddad james iv
and i'm sure i will do at some point in
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