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In 1440, George's cousin, William, Chancellor of Scotland, arranged the infamous 'Black Dinner' in Edinburgh Castle, at which the William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas was summarily executed. Then in 1441 George married Lady Janet, widow of Lord Borthwick and heiress of Douglas of Dalkeith, with lands not only in Lothian but also in SW Scotland, the heartland of the Black Douglases. The Douglases responded with force. In August 1443 William Douglas, the 8th Earl, laid siege to George Crichton's Barnton Castle, captured and destroyed it. George may have built Blackness Castle to compensate.
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