In return for Viserys giving Drogo a wife, he was to get an army to take back the seven kingdoms. Like many weddings in the show, Daenerys betrothal to Khal Drogo was an arrangement. Sir Walter Scott wrote this of the horrific event: The very first wedding in Game of Thrones hardly looked like a wedding at all. It's said that the Earl pleaded for his brother to be killed first so that the younger boy wouldn't have to witness his older brother's beheading. The two young Douglases were dragged outside, given a mock trial, found guilty of high treason, and beheaded. The Red Wedding is important to Game of Thrones overall as it subverts many traditional expectations of storytelling. The invitation had been issued by Sir William Crichton, Chancellor of Scotland, who feared that the Black Douglas (there was another clan called the Red Douglas) were growing too powerful.Īs legend has it, the children were all getting along marvelously, enjoying food, entertainment and talking until the end of the dinner, when the head of a black bull was dropped on the table, symbolizing the death of the Black Douglas. Warning: Contains spoilers for Fire & Blood, and so potential House of the Dragon spoilers. But it wasn't the young King who had invited the Douglas brothers. In November of 1440, the newly-appointed 6th Earl of Douglas, who was just 16, and his little brother David, were invited to join the 10-year-old King of England Scotland, James II, for dinner at Edinburgh Castle. The massacre was considered especially awful because it was "Slaughter Under Trust" - sound familiar, Game of Thrones fans? To this day, the door at Clachaig Inn in Glen Coe has a sign on the door denying entry to Campbells.
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At least 40 women and children escaped, but fleeing into a blizzard blowing outside as their houses burned down meant that they all died of exposure. Robb Starks death at the Red Wedding was one of the most shocking moments in both Game of Thrones and the A Song of Ice and Fire book series its based on, but he might actually have been killed twice at the event. The MacDonalds offered their hospitality, as was custom, and the soldiers stayed there for nearly two weeks before Captain Drummond arrived with instructions to "put all to the sword under seventy."Īfter playing cards with their victims and wishing them goodnight, the soldiers waited until the MacDonalds were asleep, then murdered as many men as they could manage - 38 in all, some still in their beds. In late January or early February, 120 men under the command of Captain Robert Campbell arrived at the MacDonalds' in Glencoe, claiming to need shelter because a nearby fort was full.
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