When Edward I marched north after Dunbar and Edinburgh, Stirling Castle was found almost deserted. The English chronicler Rishanger records that the keeper escaped just before the English arrived, leaving the castle effectively abandoned. Edward simply occupied it. Stirling was the gateway between north and south Scotland and its bloodless capture completed the English conquest of Lowland Scotland in 1296. Its recovery would become the proximate cause of Bannockburn eighteen years later.
English army under Edward I; minimal or no Scottish garrison
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