signed this letter "Magdalene de France". However, a month later, on 7 July 1537, (a month before her 17th birthday), Madeleine, the so-called "Summer Queen" of Scots, died in her husband's arms at Holyrood Palace. James V wrote to Francis I informing him of his daughter's death. Queen Madeleine was interred in Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, next to King James II of Scotland. Black mourning clothes were worn at her funeral, and an order was sent to the merchants of Dundee to provide black cloth. Her household servants were provided with "dule gowns", and horses at the procession had black cloths and trappings. The grave was desecrated by a mob in 1776 and her allegedly still beautiful head was stolen. An inventory made of the king's goods in 1542 includes some of her clothes, furnishings for her chapel, and gold cups and other items made for her when she was a child. Commemoration Madeleine's marriage and death was commemorated by the poet David Lyndsay's Deploration of Deith of Quene Magdalene; the poem describes the pageantry of the marriage in France and Scotland:O Paris! Of all citeis principall!Quhilk did resave our prince with laud and glorie,Solempnitlie, throw arkis triumphall. [arkis = arches]* * * * * *Thou mycht have sene the preparatiounMaid be the Thre Estaitis of ScotlandIn everilk ciete, castell, toure, and town* * * * * *Thow saw makand rycht costlie scaffaldingDepaynted weill with gold and asure fyne* * * * * *Disagysit folkis, lyke creaturis devyne,On ilk scaffold to play ane syndrie storieBot all in greiting turnit thow that glorie. [greiting = crying: thow = death] Less than a year after her death, her husband married the widowed Mary of Guise, who had attended his wedding to Madeleine. Twenty years later, listed amongst the treasures in Edinburgh Castle were two little gold cups, an agate basin, a jasper vase, and crystal jug given to Madeleine when she was a child in France. Ancestry References External links Portrait of Madeleine by Corneille de Lyon, Agnews |- 1520 births 1537 deaths 1537 in Scotland People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye House of Valois-Angoulême French princesses Scottish royal consorts 16th-century deaths from tuberculosis Scottish people of French descent Burials at Holyrood Abbey Tuberculosis deaths in Scotland Court of James V of Scotland French people of Italian descent French people of Breton descent House of Stuart 16th-century French people 16th-century Scottish people 16th-century French women