The theatrical revenge of the Black Douglases for the murder of the eighth earl was a calculated act of defiance. The new ninth earl publicly humiliated the crown by burning Stirling — the royal capital — and symbolically destroying the violated safe-conduct. Parliament was unimpressed; James II organised a coalition to destroy the Douglases, which was completed at Arkinholm in 1455.
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