The Black Douglas earls extended their remarkable power northward into the Highland zone in the late fourteenth century, using their role as royal justiciars to intervene in Highland disputes. Douglas forces operated in Badenoch and the Great Glen area asserting royal authority and extracting submission from clan chiefs. The Douglas Highland intervention was part of their broader strategy of making themselves indispensable to the crown across all of Scotland.
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