The Black Dinner was one of the most notorious political murders in Scottish history and a key episode in the long struggle between the crown and the Black Douglas clan. The earls were lured to Edinburgh Castle under promise of hospitality and murdered before the young King James II's eyes. The event is thought to have inspired the Red Wedding episode in Game of Thrones. It temporarily weakened the Douglases but ultimately contributed to the escalation of their conflict with the crown that ended at Arkinholm in 1455.
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