1507 in Scotland

Events from the year 1507 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents Monarch – James IV

Events 7 April – Easter Day: James IV is invested with the Papal sword at Holyrood Abbey.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. June – The tournament of the Wild Knight and the Black Lady is held in Edinburgh.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. 15 September – Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar are licensed to establish a printing press and granted a monopoly in printed books within Scotland.M. Livingstone, Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1 (Edinburgh, 1908), pp. 223–224 no. 1546.

Births 21 February – James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, son of James IV and Margaret Tudor, at Holyrood Palace.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.

Deaths 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,Alexander Fleming and Roger Mason, Scotland the Flemish People (Birlinn, 2019), pp. 61–62. John Francis is appointed as his successor as Conservator of Scottish Privileges in Flanders.M. Livingstone, Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1 (Edinburgh, 1908), pp. 230–231 no. 1583.

1507 in Scotland

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