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Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanorianica and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.

We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking details, and the latest groundbreaking

research from the Vikings to the Normans, from kings to popes, to the crusades. We delve into

the rebellions, plots, and murders that tell us who we really were. And how we got here.

For Scotland, 1437 was a year.

For Scotland, 1437 was a year when nobles, who had once sworn fielded to the crown,

crept from the battlefield and over the threshold of the king's chambers with sharpened blades.

King James I, anointed by the Almighty, was cut down in the dirt and squalor of a sewer.

For the new King James II, a six-year-old boy, the lesson was clear.

Though a king may be chosen by God, he is not spared the daggers and blades forged by the greed of men.

This is a lesson he would be forced to learn again, not three years later.

The Black Dinner is often said to be the inspiration behind the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones.

If George R.R. Martin is mining it for plot ideas, you know it has to be dark.

So get ready for feuds, regicides, and potentially more than one murderous uncle.

Edinburgh Castle, Tuning Tower, God grant you sink for sin, and that's even for the black dinner, Earl Douglas gat therein.

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