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Jan 4, 2024 · Braveheart (1995) depicts the death of William Wallace’s wife, played by Catherine McCormack, via IMDb. One thing that the film may have gotten right was the circumstances of the death of William Wallace’s wife. In the movie, she is bound to a stake, and her throat is slit by the English occupiers.
- Greg Beyer
Oct 6, 2015 · History: Wallace’s father’s name was Alan Wallace, not Malcolm, and he would not have been killed when Wallace was a boy. In fact he was likely alive when Wallace was fighting his rebellion.
- Early life and childhood. Born around 1270, Wallace was the second of three sons in a family of minor Scottish nobility. His father, Sir Malcolm Wallace, owned lands in Elderslie in Renfrewshire and Auchinbothie in Ayrshire, suggesting a comfortable, if not opulent, upbringing.
- The political crisis of 13th century Scotland. The late 13th century was a period of profound political upheaval and social change in Scotland. The death of King Alexander III in 1286, followed by the demise of his granddaughter and heir Margaret, Maid of Norway, in 1290, left the Scottish throne vacant.
- Why did William Wallace rebel? The exact trigger for Wallace's entry into the struggle for Scottish independence is not definitively known, but it is often attributed to an incident in the town of Lanark in 1297.
- The Battle of Stirling Bridge. The Battle of Stirling Bridge, fought on September 11, 1297, marked a turning point in the First War of Scottish Independence and solidified William Wallace's status as a national hero.
The Legacy of William Wallace & His Crawford Relations. One of the most complete portrayals of William Wallace’s life is the epic poem by Blind Harry known today simply as “The Wallace.”. Blind Harry lived and wrote in the late 1450s, about 150 years after Wallace’s death. He wrote down many of the popular stories about Wallace’s life ...
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- Early Life
- Edward I & The Great Cause
- Early Campaigns
- Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Battle of Falkirk
- The Ruling Council
- Capture & Execution
- Legacy
William Wallace was born c. 1270 into a landowning family in southwest Scotland. His father was a knight, minor noble, and vassal of James Stewart, the 5th High Steward of Scotland. Tradition has it that Wallace was born in Elderslie near Paisley in Renfrewshire or Elderslie in Ayrshire. Wallace was traditionally portrayed as a commoner in later me...
Edward I of England, known for his fiery temper and self-confidence, was nicknamed 'Longshanks' because of his height: 1.9 metres (6 ft 2 in), an unusually impressive stature for the period. The English king was already a battle-hardened campaigner. He had participated in the Ninth Crusade (1271-1272 CE), helped defeat the rebel English barons who ...
Wallace’s first raid of note was on Lanark in Scotland in May 1297 which he attacked with a band of some 30 men. In later legend, this raid was in revenge for an attack on Wallace’s sweetheart Marion and the murder of a group of Scottish nobles by English soldiers. William Heselrig, the English sheriff at Lanark was killed in the attack. More succe...
William Wallace's greatest triumph was his rout of an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge near Stirling Castlein central Scotland on 11 September 1297. The English army, which included at least 300 heavy cavalry, was led by John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and was much larger than the Scottish force. The Scots were led by Wallace and Sir ...
In 1298 Edward I led an army in person across the border. Wallace had been steadily retreating further north, avoiding a direct confrontation and employing a scorched earth policy to draw Edward’s army deeper into Scotland where his lack of supplies would become a serious logistics problem. The two armies finally met at the Battle of Falkirk on 22 ...
The events of the next few years are poorly documented. With a vacant throne, a ruling council had been established consisting of Wallace, John Comyn, and then Bishop Lamberton. Robert the Bruce did not initially support this council. Part of the problem was the Bruces had long been rivals of the Comyns, who supported the Balliols. On the other han...
Wallace was finally caught in Glasgow on 5 August 1305, thanks to traitorous friends according to some medieval chroniclers. The most wanted man in Scotland was dragged to London to be prosecuted as a traitor to the Crown in Westminster Hall. Wallace was said to have been made to wear a crown of oak leaves to signify his lowly status as an outlaw. ...
William Wallace was gone but not forgotten, and his legend grew thanks to such epic and highly romanticised ballads asThe Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written by either Henry the Minstrel or Blind Harry c. 1470. It is this colourful ballad which forms the basis of the 1995 film Braveheart. An important history of Wall...
- Mark Cartwright
Sep 14, 2016 · Famed whodunit author Raymond Chandler called it an impossible murder. Eighty-five years later, it remains unsolved. Julia Wallace (nee Dennis) was the wife of William Herbert Wallace. William was born on August 29, 1878 in Millom, Cumberland and spent his early years working in clothing and fabric.
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In 1297, William murdered William de Heselrig, the English High Sheriff of Lanark who supposedly had killed his wife spurring the vengeful spirit that would carry Wallace for years. After him and his men murdered every Englishmen in sight, instead of retreating into the shadows, Wallace kindled the fires of revolt and unleashed his defiance ...
