Editing James V (section)

== Outside interests ==
[[File:Sculpture Stirling 2012.JPG|thumb|250px|Statue at [[Stirling Castle]], said to depict the Gudeman of Ballengeich]]
[[File:James V groat 1526 1704.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Groat (coin)|Groat]] of James V, Edinburgh mint, 1526 × 1539]]

According to legend, James was nicknamed "King of the Commons" as he would sometimes travel around Scotland disguised as a common man, describing himself as the "Gudeman of Ballengeich".<ref>Bingham ''James V King of Scots''</ref> ("Gudeman" means "landlord" or "farmer", and "Ballengeich" was the nickname of a road next to [[Stirling Castle]] — meaning "windy pass" in [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Black |title=Picturesque Tourist of Scotland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5DVKabC7PQC&pg=PA181 |pages=180–181 |date=1861}}.</ref>). One traditional ballad, ''[[The Jolly Beggar]]'', is considered by some to refer to his activities.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/thegaberlunzieman.html | title=The Gaberlunzie Man / The Beggar Man / The Auld Beggarman (Roud 212; Child 279 Appendix; Henry H810) }}</ref>

James was also a keen [[lute]] player.<ref name="The Early Music Show">"The Court of Mary, Queen of Scots", ''[[BBC Radio 3]]'', 28 February 2010.</ref> In 1562, Sir Thomas Wood reported that James had "a singular good ear and could sing that he had never seen before" ([[sight-read]]), but his voice was "rawky" and "harske." At court, James maintained a band of Italian musicians who adopted the name Drummond. These were joined for the winter of 1529/30 by a musician and diplomat sent by the [[Francesco II Sforza|Duke of Milan]], Thomas de Averencia de [[Brescia]], probably a [[lute]]nist.<ref>Hay, Denys, ed., ''Letters of James V'' (HMSO, 1954), pp. 63, 169, 170: Shire, Helena M., in ''Stewart Style'' (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1996), pp. 129–133.</ref> The historian Andrea Thomas makes a useful distinction between the loud music provided at ceremonies and processionals and instruments employed for more private occasions or worship, the ''music fyne'' described by Helena Mennie Shire. This quieter music included a consort of [[viol]]s played by four Frenchmen led by Jacques Columbell.<ref>Thomas, Andrea, ''Princelie Majestie'' (John Donald, 2005), pp. 92–94, 98: H. M. Shire, ''Song Dance and Poetry'' (Cambridge, 1969).</ref> It seems certain that [[David Peebles]] wrote music for James V and probable that the Scottish composer [[Robert Carver (composer)|Robert Carver]] was in royal employ, though evidence is lacking.<ref>Thomas, Andrea, ''Princelie Majestie'' (John Donald, 1998), pp. 105–107.</ref>

As a patron of poets and authors, James supported [[William Stewart (makar)|William Stewart]] and [[John Bellenden]], the son of his nurse, who translated the Latin ''History of Scotland'' compiled in 1527 by [[Hector Boece]] into verse and prose.<ref>Van Heijnsbergen, Theo, 'Literature in Queen Mary's Edinburgh: the Bannatyne Manuscript', in ''The Renaissance in Scotland'' (Brill, 1994), pp. 191–196.</ref> [[Sir David Lindsay of the Mount]], the [[Lord Lyon]], head of the [[Lyon Court]] and diplomat, was a prolific poet. He produced an interlude at Linlithgow Palace thought to be a version of his play ''[[A Satire of the Three Estates|The Thrie Estaitis]]'' in 1540. James also attracted the attention of international authors. The French poet [[Pierre de Ronsard]], who had been a page of Madeleine of Valois, offered unqualified praise:
<blockquote>"Son port estoit royal, son regard vigoureux<br/>
De vertus, et de l'honneur, et guerre amoureux<br/>
La douceur et la force illustroient son visage<br/>
Si que Venus et Mars en avoient fait partage"<br/>
<br/>
His royal bearing, and vigorous pursuit<br/>
of virtue, of honour, and love's war,<br/>
this sweetness and strength illuminate his face,<br/>
as if he were the child of Venus and Mars.<ref>Bingham, Caroline, ''James V'' (Collins, 1971), p. 12, verse quoted from William Drummond of Hawthornden, ''History of the 5 Jameses'' (1655), pp. 348–349</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=J2AJAAAAQAAJ&q=hawthornden Drummond of Hawthorden, William, ''Works'', Edinburgh (1711)], p. 115.</ref></blockquote>

When he married Mary of Guise, [[Robert Reid (bishop)|Giovanni Ferrerio]], an Italian scholar who had been at [[Kinloss Abbey]] in Scotland, dedicated to the couple a new edition of his work ''On the True Significance of Comets against the Vanity of Astrologers.''<ref>Ferrerio, Giovanni, ''De vera cometae significatione contra astrologorum omnium vanitatem. Libellus, nuper natus et aeditus'', Paris, Vascovan, (1538).</ref> Like Henry VIII, James employed many foreign artisans and craftsmen in order to enhance the prestige of his renaissance court.<ref name="Thomas226to243">Thomas, Andrea, ''Princelie Majestie, the court of James V'' (John Donald: Edinburgh, 2005), pp. 226–243.</ref> [[Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie]] listed their professions:
<blockquote>he plenished the country with all kind of craftsmen out of other countries, as French-men, Spaniards, Dutch men, and Englishmen, which were all cunning craftsmen, every man for his own hand. Some were gunners, wrights, carvers, painters, masons, smiths, harness-makers (armourers), tapesters, broudsters, taylors, cunning chirugeons, apothecaries, with all other kind of craftsmen to apparel his palaces.<ref>Lindsay of Pitscottie, Robert, ''The History of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1778), p. 238: abbreviated in Lindsay of Pitscottie, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1814), p. 359.</ref></blockquote>

One technological initiative was a special mill for polishing armour at Holyroodhouse next to his mint. The mill had a pole drive 32 feet long powered by horses.<ref>''Accounts of the Masters of Work'', vol. 1 (HMSO: Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 101–102, 242 290: Thomas Andrea, ''Princelie Majestie'' (John Donald, 2005), p. 173.</ref> Mary of Guise's mother [[Antoinette of Bourbon]] sent him an armourer. The armourer made steel plates for his jousting saddles in October 1538 and delivered a [[tassets|skirt]] of [[plate armour]] in February 1540. In the same year, for his wife's coronation, the treasurer's accounts record that James personally devised fireworks made by his master gunners. His goldsmith [[John Mosman (goldsmith)|John Mosman]] renovated the [[honours of Scotland|crown jewels]] for the occasion.<ref>''Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), 95, 287 (taslet), 357 fireworks: [[Marguerite Wood]], ''Balcarres Papers'', vol. 1 (SHS: Edinburgh, 1923), pp. 18, 20.</ref> When James took steps to suppress the circulation of slanderous ballads and rhymes against Henry VIII, Henry sent Fulke ap Powell, [[Lancaster Herald]], to give thanks and to make arrangements for the present of a lion for James's [[menagerie]] of exotic pets.<ref>''Letters & Papers Henry VIII'', vol. 14 part 1 (London, 1894), xix, no. 406: vol. 14 part 2 (London, 1895), no. 781.</ref>