The Treaty of Perpetual Peace (1502) lasted eleven years before it was broken by James IV. He and his successor fought England off and on for the next three decades, until James V died with his newly born daughter Mary (later Queen of Scots) as his heir.
The English crown wanted Mary’s daughter to marry Henry VIII’s son, Prince Edward. This was at first agreed, discord soon broke out, and in 1544 the Scottish government renounced the
