Indeed a range of dates of to have been used, that's 18 years of a difference! He was a descendant of a Richard Wallace, or "le Waleis" " the Welshman - who had come to Scotland to serve in the royal household of King David I in the early part of the 12th century. However, there is evidence that his father might have been another man: Alan Wallace. There is also an Alan Wallace on the Ragman Roll.
As this Alan Wallace is listed on the Roll as being from Ayr, it could be that William Wallace may well have been born in Ellerslie, which is near Kilmarnock, and not Elderslie near Paisley. Family - It is known that Wallace had 2 brothers: Malcolm and John who were also involved in the struggle. John died in London in similar circumstances to that of his brother. Marriage - It is not known for certain if William Wallace was married or not, or if he had children. His killing of the Sheriff of Lanark in is believed to have been as vengeance for the murder of his wife, Marion Braidfute.
Although many portraits and representations have been done of Wallace over the years we don't know exactly what he looked like. There were no portraits done of him during his life. A sketch made by the 11th Earl of Buchan in the 19th century which is the property of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery is reputed to have been drawn from an original medieval piece of artwork although this original has been lost. This engraving is based on that sketch.
Many other depictions of Wallace have been made over the years all similar in approach, showing him as a determined man. Many portraits of Wallace show him wearing the "dragon" helmet, which wasn't of the time, but several centuries later. The dragon symbol is thought to refer to Wallace's family origins in Wales. However, some representations are perhaps more comic than dramatic and whether they do Wallace justice should be left to the viewer to decide He is regarded as being tall, as high as 6ft 7inches.
This is based on the documents and histories that were passed down describing him and also on the speculation that he would have had to have been tall to wield so effectively the sword that is kept in the Wallace National Monument at Abbey Craig just outside Stirling. The sword is 5 feet 4 inches cm long and so its user would have needed to be both tall and strong to use it properly in battle.
As there are no remains with which to verify the claims, we will just have to stay with the notion that he was literally a giant of a man. They met again at a marriage celebration in , and Wallace would go on to secretly court and marry MacClannough, promising to teach her Latin and French.
However, as MacClannough walked through the marketplace the next day, she was seized and raped by the English soldier Michael Smythe , and she fought back and escaped with Wallace's help. Before she could flee the town, however, she was felled from her horse by an English soldier and taken to the outpost. William Heselrig lectured the people of Lanark about how their unlawfulness would be punished, and he tied MacClannough to a post and slit her throat. Wallace avenged her death by slaughtering the English garrison, and he started a revolt against the English occupation of his country.
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