{"id":797,"date":"2017-10-12T12:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/?p=797"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:17:36","slug":"braveheart-vs-william-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/braveheart-vs-william-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"“Braveheart” vs. William Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every member of the CWS should be able to speak on each of the following sixteen points. This is a nice little refresher on where film “Braveheart” and facts disagree:<\/p>\n

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      1. Wallace was the son of a Knight; not a poor cottar (farmer) as depicted.<\/li>\n
      2. Wallace was not a highlander; he did not wear a kilt.<\/li>\n
      3. His father, Sir Malcolm, was executed when Wallace was an adult.<\/li>\n
      4. There is no record of Edward re instituting “First Night”.<\/li>\n
      5. Wallace’s wife “Murren” (Marion Broadfoot) was executed because she helped Wallace evade capture.<\/li>\n
      6. Scots did not paint themselves blue in the thirteenth century AD. The blue emulsion is called “woad” and was reportedly used by ancient Celts in Roman times.<\/li>\n
      7. The wooden “castle” of Lanark was pure fantasy.<\/li>\n
      8. The battle at Stirlinq took place at a bridge, not in open ground; the bridge was the key to success.<\/li>\n
      9. Wallace never met Princess Isabella; he was dead before she came to England from France.<\/li>\n
      10. Edward II (who really did prefer the company of men) married Isabella after his father’s death. (1308).<\/li>\n
      11. Robert the Bruce did not ‘rescue’ Wallace after Falkirk.<\/li>\n
      12. Robert the Bruce’s father did not have leprosy.<\/li>\n
      13. Wallace was betrayed by Sir John Menteith of Dumbarton; Robert the Bruce was not present.<\/li>\n
      14. Wallace was dragged behind a horse to his execution. (1305)<\/li>\n
      15. Wallace was executed in the city of London; it is highly unlikely that any of his friends or followers could have been present.<\/li>\n
      16. Bruce never intended to ‘parlay’ at Bannockburn; he knew from the start that this battle was the keystone to Scotland’s independence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Originally published in “The Guardian” Vol 36 No 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Every member of the CWS should be able to speak on each of the following sixteen points. This is a nice little refresher on where film “Braveheart” and facts disagree: Wallace was the son of a Knight; not a poor cottar (farmer) as depicted. Wallace was not a highlander; he did not wear a kilt. … Continue reading “Braveheart” vs. William Wallace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,26,68,69],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-news","tag-braveheart","tag-clan-wallace","tag-william-wallace-facts","tag-william-wallace-hsitory","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}