Mary of Guise, daughter of Claude, duc…
1538 CE
Mary of Guise, daughter of Claude, duc de Guise, has married the recently widowed James V.
Maxwell and the lords and barons who had come to France for the wedding travel back to Scotland with Mary.
Mary lands in Scotland on June 10, 1538, at Crail in Fife.
She is formally received by the king a few days later amid pageants and plays performed in her honor.
When Mary had left France, at the age of twenty-two years, she had been forced to leave her three-year old son, Francis, behind in France.
Since the death of his father, Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, young Francis was the new Duke of Longueville.
A few days after Mary had landed in Crail, she and James are married in person at St Andrews.
James's mother Margaret Tudor writes to Henry VIII in July, "I trust she will prove a wise Princess. I have been much in her company, and she bears herself very honourably to me, with very good entertaining."
The Duke of Guise sends her masons and miners, an armorer, and she has a French painter to decorate her palaces, Pierre Quesnel.