1507 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1507 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 7 April – Easter Day: James IV is invested with the Papal sword at Holyrood Abbey.[1]
- June – The tournament of the Wild Knight and the Black Lady is held in Edinburgh.[2]
- 15 September – Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar are licensed to establish a printing press and granted a monopoly in printed books within Scotland.[3]
Births
[edit]- 21 February – James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, son of James IV and Margaret Tudor, at Holyrood Palace.[4]
Deaths
[edit]- 14 January – William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll
- 5 February – John Fraser (bishop), first Dean of the Collegiate Church at Restalrig and Bishop of Ross.
- Andrew Halyburton, merchant,[5] John Francis is appointed as his successor as Conservator of Scottish Privileges in Flanders.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jamie Reid-Baxter, "James IV and Robert Carver", Kate Buchanan, Lucinda Dean, Michael Penman, Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles (Routledge, 2016), p. 240.
- ^ Alan V. Murray, Rosalind Brown-Grant, "The Emprise of the Wild Knight of the Black Lady, Edinburgh, 1507", Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry: A Casebook (Liverpool University Press, 2025), pp. 313-320. doi:10.2307/jj.13083358.25
- ^ M. Livingstone, Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1 (Edinburgh, 1908), pp. 223–224 no. 1546.
- ^ Mairi Cowan & Laura Walkling, "Growing up with the court of James IV", Janay Nugent & Elizabeth Ewan, Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (Boydell, 2015), pp. 21–2.
- ^ Alexander Fleming and Roger Mason, Scotland the Flemish People (Birlinn, 2019), pp. 61–62.
- ^ M. Livingstone, Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1 (Edinburgh, 1908), pp. 230–231 no. 1583.