Jewels of Margaret Tudor

The magnificent jewels and costume worn by Margaret Tudor on her journey to Scotland and reception at Holyrood Palace were described in general terms by the English herald John Young.

Mary's embroiderer William Mortimer was supplied with gold wire, and gilt spangles for her costume were provided by the London goldsmith Robert Amadas.

Later that month, a goldsmith John Currour mended two collars with swans and supplied pearls for two "corses" or crosses which James gave to Margaret.

[8] After the death of Henry VII, Andrew Forman, Bishop of Moray, was sent to London in July 1509 to ask for jewels left to Margaret by her father.

[9] In September 1515 Margaret Tudor left Linlithgow Palace and went to back to England, on her way leaving a coffer of jewels at Tantallon Castle.

[11] The Venetian ambassador in London, Sebastian Giustinian heard a dramatic, though exaggerated and inaccurate version of Margaret's flight from Scotland, that the Duke of Albany had besieged her at Stirling Castle and she escaped.

[12] According to a later 16th-century Scottish writer John Lesley, Margaret surrendered Stirling Castle and the king to Albany, but then began to oppose him.

The Scottish wardrobe accounts make it clear that the "chaffron" was the name of the velvet strip for a hood, made in 1511 by the queen's tailor, Thomas Edgar.

[17] A Spanish ambassador Pedro de Ayala wrote in 1498 that Scottish women "dress much better than here (in England), and especially as regards the head-dress (las cabeças), which is, I think, the handsomest in the world".

Some of her jewels may be included in the inventories of her son James V. He ordered Oliver Sinclair and John Tennent to pack up her belongings at Methven for his use.