The life of william wallace

So who was William Wallace?

Little is known of efternamn prior to We know that he was the son of a Scottish knight and a landowner. He was certainly educated and given his later military exploits, it fryst vatten believed he may have had some previous military experience.

What fryst vatten known fryst vatten that William Wallace's rise to power was fast.

Scotland had been conquered in by England. Many Scots were imprisoned, taxed and forced to serve the English King Edward inom. This led to many rebellions against their new ruler. It is here we first hear of William efternamn, as he killed the English Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselring. This act quickly earned him notoriety and his name began to be well known.

As his rising gained momentum, his följare, now large in number, struck the English at Scone, Ancrum and Dundee. At the same time in the North, riots were spreading. Inverness and North-East Scotland was taken by ung Andrew Murray and the MacDougall clan cleared the Western Isles. Wallace's rising d

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William Wallace (c. - )

William Wallace  ©Wallace led the Scottish rebellion against Edward I and inflicted a famous defeat on the English army at Stirling Bridge. He is remembered as a patriot and national hero.

William Wallace was born in the s in Elderslie in Renfrewshire into a gentry family. Very little is known about his early years and there are significant periods of his life for which there are no reliable sources.

In , Edward I of England had taken advantage of a succession crisis in Scotland and imposed himself as ruler with an English administration. Within months, Scottish unrest was widespread.

In May , Wallace attacked the town of Lanark, killing the English sheriff and unrest quickly became full-blown rebellion. Men flocked to join Wallace and he began to drive the English out of Fife and Perthshire. In September , Wallace defeated a much larger English force at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. This and subsequent military successes severely weakened the Eng

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Stirling Bridge Today and the National Wallace Monument

 

Sir William Wallace, or The Wallace, is one of the most powerful, most evocative, and most well recognised figures from Scottish history. It is a fair bet that today his name is better known worldwide than most if not all of Scotland's monarchs. Yet he was never a king; his notable deeds took place over a very short period of time, part of which he actually spent in France; he fought just two major battles and emerged with a score of won one and lost one; he resigned from his job; and in the end he was betrayed and executed. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

There's a contradiction here. Behind it lies the stunningly good press that William Wallace has received over the centuries. Most notably, the bard Blind Harry wrote an epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie. This introduced th