Who was William Wallace? In 1296 John Balliol surrendered to Edward I of England and was removed as King of Scots. Edward took control of Scotland, He forced 2, 000 Scottish nobles to swear they ...

A 700-year-old letter of recommendation from the King of France for William Wallace is to go on public display in Edinburgh for just five hours on St Andrew’s Day. Written in a form of Latin ...

Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s 1995 film about William Wallace, is notoriously riddled with inaccuracies, from the imagined blue face paint donned by the Scottish warrior to the anachronistic tartan ...

William Wallace’s famous “Freedom” speech was heavily inspired by King Henry’s “St. Crispin’s Day Speech” from the Shakespeare play Henry V. 13. The distinctive face paint—called ...

How William Wallace of ‘Braveheart’ Fame Defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge ... Among the dead was Hugh de Cressingham, the king’s treasurer, ...