The The The Black Dinner was an infamous event in Scottish history that caught George R. Martin's

attention and inspired him to

write the Red Wedding. Along the way, while delving into this corner of history, we noticed quite a

few other parallels and possible influences, or at least happy coincidences. Happy to us, that is,

maybe not to the people involved. As we'll see, a lot of these stories are pretty bloody.

Regardless, they make for a great series of stories and anecdotes, which we've compiled for you today.

Much of it will revolve around houses Stuart and Douglas, and at one point, Douglas splits into the black Douglas' and the red Douglas is, a familiar

split, since we're familiar with red and black dragons and all.

But also, we'll be talking about the kings of England and royal Scottish figures like

Robert the Bruce and some King James's is several of them, really, but two in particular.

And the actual murders at the Black Dinner occurred in late 1440.

But we'll be looking back quite a bit farther than that to cover the history of the players

and the families involved and other parallels, stuff like that, all that juicy, juicy

context in Scottish history that's relevant today.

Then we'll continue a little bit past the Black Dinner to see what happened in the aftermath,

because it sort of, things did sort of come to a close of sorts, that chapter sort of closed in some ways.

You'll see it does form a bit of a story, what we've put together here.

Just like the Red Wedding, there was a fallout, right? But that fallout,

like the Red Wedding, was just more violence, more intrigue, more murder, alliance, betrayal,

rebellion, and some more parallels. That'll take us up to the year 1484, roughly speaking. You may

notice how this overlaps much of what we saw in our recent Wars of the

Roses episode, which somewhat officially ended in 1487. So only three years apart, it's almost

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