James I of Scotland — a poet, reformer and strong king who had been imprisoned in England for eighteen years — was murdered in the sewer of the Dominican Friary at Perth by a group of nobles led by Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, who hoped to claim the throne. Catherine Douglas (Kate Barlass) allegedly thrust her arm through the door-bar staples to delay the assassins while the king hid. The assassins were captured and tortured to death over several days in punishments of extraordinary elaboration. James's death ended a period of unusually strong royal government.
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