Janet Kennedy and Stewart Line

I am the Heir to the Scottish Throne, and the Seinsheim Nobility that has not died out!

John Presco ‘The Hidden Seed of Bohemia and Scotland’

Arms of James IV displayed in the Great Hall he built at Stirling Castle

James IV was a true Renaissance prince with an interest in practical and scientific matters. He granted the Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh (later the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) a royal charter in 1506, turned Edinburgh Castle into one of Scotland’s foremost gun foundries, and welcomed the establishment of Scotland’s first printing press in 1507. He built a part of Falkland Palace, and Great Halls at Stirling and Edinburgh castles, and furnished his palaces with tapestries.^[9] James was a patron of the arts, including many literary figures, most notably the Scots makars whose diverse and socially observant works convey a vibrant and memorable picture of cultural life and intellectual concerns of the period. Figures associated with his court include William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy and Gavin Douglas, who made the first complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid in northern Europe. His reign also saw the passing of the makar Robert Henryson. He patronised music at Restalrig using rental money from the King’s Wark.^[10] He also gave his backing to the foundation of King’s College, Aberdeen by his chancellor, William Elphinstone, and St Leonard’s College, St Andrews by his illegitimate son Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews, and John Hepburn, Prior of St Andrews. Partly at Elphinstone’s instance, in 1496 he also passed what has been described as Scotland’s first education act, which dictated that all barons and freeholders of substance had to send their eldest sons and heirs to school for a certain time.