In the months of rising tension between Huntly and Moray before the Donibristle murder, Gordon and Moray forces clashed in the Cabrach area of upper Strathbogie. The skirmish was part of a pattern of escalating confrontations in which Huntly sought to humiliate and ultimately destroy his Protestant rival. Government attempts to interpose between the two earls were ineffective. The Cabrach skirmish demonstrated that northeast Scotland had effectively become a private war zone between the Gordon and Moray factions months before the murder.
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