Wallace was the younger son of a Scottish knight and minor landowner. His name, Wallace or le Waleis, means the Welshman, and he was probably descended from Richard Wallace who had followed the ...
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the noble Sir William Douglas and Robert the Bruce. However, although many nobles supported him openly at first, they surrendered to Edward’s nobles at Irvine in July 1297. Wallace himself ...
Until 1297 the heavily armed and mounted knight had been an invincible force on the battlefield. Stirling Bridge was the first battle in Europe to see a common army of spearmen defeat a feudal host.
A rare copy of a famous William Wallace poem has been discovered by a ... artist David Semple, Sir Peter Coats, yarn merchant Thomas Greenlees and designer Thomas Adam. The discovery has led ...
For the High Score? For the world’s longest bogie?! We don’t know much about the early years of William Wallace. There’s a story that he killed the English Sheriff of Lanark. No-one knows ...