Battle of Solway Moss

James V became king when he was a year old, after his father died at the Battle of Flodden, but he did not rule on his own behalf until 1528. He was eager to strengthen ties with France, and when his first French wife died shortly after her arrival in Scotland, he married another French woman, Mary of Guise, who already had two sons. When Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church, he asked James to do the same. James ignored his uncle's request, and further insulted him by refusing to meet with Henry at York. Furious, Henry VIII invaded Scotland. James sent his army into battle, and the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Solway Moss in 1546 on the English-Scottish Border. James V was suffering a complete, nervous collapse and was too ill to march into battle, so he retired to his Falkland Palace in Fife with fever. Within weeks he was dead.