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The Society Of William Wallace

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Detailed description is The Society of William Wallace is dedicated to preserving the memory of Sir William Wallace the great Scottish patriot, and has a major interest in all other aspects pertaining to Scotland’s history..1124 David I becomes King and invites Norman families into his realm.
He gives them land and rank as they rose to become powerful names in the ruling houses of Scotland.
Among the illustrious names were the Balliol’s, Bruce’s and Fitz-Alans.
When the Fitz-Alans came North from Shropshire they brought with them their vassals (men in their service) a family by the name of Walays.
This was the English for a Celt or a Welshman..
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1163 Walter Fitz-Alan founded the great abbey of Paisley, the charter confirming this was witnessed by a Richard Wallace a man regarded as being an ancestor of William Wallace..
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1270-5 William Wallace born in Elderslie, Renfrewshire near Glasgow although the family owned another small estate at Auchenbothie, a few miles away, near Howwood.
There are also claims that he was born in Ellerslie in Ayrshire..
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1272 King Edward I (known as Edward "Longshanks") came to the throne of England..
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1286 Alexander III, King of Scotland dies while travelling to meet his new bride, Yolande de Dreux, near Kinghorn in Fife.
Scottish nobles gather at Scone to elect six Guardians who will act as a provisional government, The Community of the Realm of Scotland.
The Guardians will work to protect Scotland in the name of Alexander's only surviving relative, his three-year-old granddaughter, Margaret, the Maid of Norway and Scotland's Queen-in-waiting..
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1289 Treaty of Birgham: The Guardians agree to the marriage of the young Queen and the son of Edward I of England, thus creating a union between Scotland and England.
The treaty proved ineffectual, both because Margaret died en route to Scotland from Norway in 1290, and because English negotiators had included enough reservations to render the independence clauses useless..
Scotland is thrown into crisis as the question of succession to the Scottish throne is cast wide open.
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1291 Edward I bullies Scottish lords and nobles into recognising him as the supreme overlord of Scotland.
Custody of Scotland, together with its castles and their possessions, are handed over to the English king.
Court of Claims to the Scottish throne begins in Berwick..
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1292 John Balliol is named as the new King of Scotland and is enthroned at Scone on St Andrew's Day.
King Edward wastes little time in proving that John Balliol is very much his man, humiliating him and forcing him to do as he was told in governing what King Edward considered Scotland to be, a province of England..
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1294 Edward I declares war on France.
King John and his Scottish nobles refuse to fight the French on the side of the English and formalise a mutual defence agreement with Philip IV of France against England..
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1295 Balliol is declared incompetent to rule the country.
Scottish nobles meet in Stirling to elect a 12-man council to rule Scotland.
The newly-formed council negotiate a defensive alliance with Edward's enemy, France..
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1296 War begins between England and Scotland.
English army massacre civilians at Berwick and Scots retaliate by doing the same throughout Northumberland.
The English army marches north and takes Dunbar, Roxburgh, Jedburgh, Edinburgh, Stirling and Montrose.
Edward takes the Stone of Destiny from Scone, then moves back south to Berwick to take the oaths of loyalty from over 2000 Scottish nobles (the Ragman Roll)..
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1297 William Wallace kills the Sheriff of Lanark and the spark of rebellion was ignited!! He joins a campaign supported by the Bishop of Glasgow, Robert Wishart, to drive English sheriffs from Scotland.
Wallace gathers a small peasant army to chase Edward's justiciar, William Ormesby, from Scone Abbey.
Wallace defeats the English Garrison in Glasgow at the Battle of the Bell o' the Brae.
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Andrew Murray leads a revolt in the north and captures a series of English castles in the Highlands and the north east, and besieges Urquhart Castle..
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The Scottish nobles gather at Irvine, but are forced to surrender to an army of English knights.
Wallace is joined by the army of Andrew Murray, who has successfully reclaimed the north-east from the English.
The army of Wallace and Murray rout a vastly superior English army at Stirling Bridge though Murray dies from wounds received in the battle later that year.
Wallace invaded the North of England but was beaten back by the early onset of a hard winter..
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1298 Wallace is knighted and appointed Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland at the Kirk of the Forest, (the remains of which stand in the town of Selkirk), but still acts in the name of John Balliol.
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Edward I invades Scotland with a powerful army, made up predominantly of Irish and Welsh infantry to teach the Scots a lesson.
The Scottish army are defeated with great losses at the Battle of Falkirk.
Wallace steps down as Guardian of Scotland, to be replaced by Robert Bruce and John Comyn..
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1299 Diplomatic pressure from France and Rome persuades Edward to release the imprisoned King John.
Wallace departs for Europe to try to gain further support for the Scottish cause.
William Lamberton, the Bishop of St Andrews, is appointed as a third, neutral Guardian to try and maintain order between Bruce and Comyn.
Scots recapture Stirling Castle..
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1300 Bruce resigns as joint Guardian of Scotland and is replaced Ingram de Umfraville, a kinsman of King John, and ally of Comyn.
England invades Scotland and refuse a personal demand from John Comyn to restore King John and give up Scottish lands.
Continued diplomatic pressure from France and Rome (where Wallace was acting as an envoy) forces Edward to sign a truce and promise to release the Bishop of Glasgow from his English prison..
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1301 Comyn, Lamberton and Umfraville resign as Guardians in favour of John Soulis.
Edward's army occupies Glasgow..
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1302 The Pope overrides the English terms of King John's release and hands him over to the French.
Wallace returns from France with news of possible assistance from King Philip IV.
Robert Bruce, fearing a return by King John would mean transfer of power to his enemy, John Comyn, defects to Edward.
The French are defeated by a Flemish peasant army at Courtrai..
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1303 Wallace, Comyn and Simon Fraser continue to struggle against English occupation and defeat an English expeditionary force at Roslin, near Edinburgh.
Edward invades again with a full-strength force, after having signed a peace treaty with a much-weakened France.
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Wallace gains financial support from Bishop Wishart of Glasgow to continue the struggle..
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1304 Wallace's small force is defeated by an army of English knights at Happrew, near Peebles.
Wallace survives, but becomes a fugitive.
His last known action takes place at Black Ironside in Perthshire.
Edward lays siege to Stirling Castle, the last major fortification to resist Edward's army..
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1305 Wallace evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305 whereupon he was betrayed by his squire Jack Short for 40 merks to John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, who turned Wallace over to English soldiers at Robroyston near Glasgow..
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Wallace was transported to London and tried for treason and the execution of civilians and prisoners at Westminster Hall the oldest part of the Houses of Parliament, where his sham trial took place.
He was crowned with a garland of oak to suggest that he was the king of outlaws and was allowed no defence, but he managed to shout above his accusers that he was "A Scot, born in Scotland, and did not recognise England as his sovereign nation" .
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He was tied to the tails of horses, and dragged through the streets of London for 6 miles, eventually arriving at Smithfield Elms.
Here he was hung, then cut down while still alive.
His stomach was opened and his entrails were pulled out and burnt before him.
His heart was then ripped out, ending his life.
His body was cut to pieces, his head stuck on a spike on old London Bridge.
The parts of his body were sent north to dishonour the Scots.
Longshanks thought by giving him such an ignoble death that the Scots would forget Wallace, and there were religious connotations too.
Wallace would have no body to rise on Judgement Day, and so be damned forever..
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But Sir William Wallace needs no tomb.
His memory lives on in the heart and souls of Scots, every generation recognising his devotion to his native soil, and he will be remembered by Scots men and women till the end of time.


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Ans: Blind Harry. Blind Harry was a wandering minstrel in Scotland in the 1400s, and he told tales of William Wallace on his journeying round Scotland. This book is the second biggest selling book ever in Scotland, outsold only by the Bible. This work gives us much detail of Wallace’s early life, but as there is no other source to back any of the tales up, it must be looked at critically from an academic viewpoint. It was Blind Harry’s work that was used as the basis for the motion picture “Braveheart” -it is still in print, but it is in the form of an epic poem and may seem dated to modern sensibilities. William Wallace jumps onto the pages of our history books in 1297, when he stabs the English governor of Lanark to death. It is said this was in retaliation for the slaying of his sweetheart. We do not know the exact year of William’s birth, but educated guesses put it between 1270 and 1275, so he was still a young man. From this point on, young men in Scotland, dismayed at the English occupation of their native soil, flock to join Wallace’s banner. By mid 1297, Wallace has a rag tag army. He joins forces with Andrew Murray, (sometimes spelt Moray, but the pronunciation is Murray) a young man who has started a similar rising in the north of Scotland. While these two are besieging the castle of Dundee, word comes that the English have sent a great army against them. The two armies come to battle at the bridge over the River Forth at Stirling on September 11, 1297. Wallace’s base at this battle was a huge rocky outcrop named the Abbey Craig, so called because of its proximity to Cambuskenneth Abbey, and today this rock is crowned by The National Wallace Monument, a 220ft tower celebrating the life of Wallace, and containing as its prime exhibit, what is believed to be the sword of our hero. The Scots routed the English with much slaughter, but unfortunately Murray received wounds, which were to prove fatal, and he was taken north to Fortrose Cathedral to be buried.The Scots went on to invade northern England to bring back much needed supplies, and on return from this invasion Wallace was made “Guardian of Scotland” at the Kirk of the Forest, the remains of which stand in the town of Selkirk. He was also knighted, as from this time on he is referred to as “Sir” William Wallace. The English king, Edward I, commonly known as “Longshanks” returned from his continental wars, and gathered another great army and marched north to deal with Wallace. These two armies came face to face at Falkirk in July 1298, and this time the English longbow was to prove the undoing of the Scots spearmen. The Scots fled, and Wallace resigned the guardianship, preferring to fight the overwhelming might of England with guerrilla tactics. In late 1299, Wallace decided to travel abroad and try and enlist foreign help. He travelled to France, and to Rome, hoping that the Pope would exert influence to try and curtail English deprivations in Scotland. He returned to Scotland in 1303, only to find that the English had tightened their grip and that he must start from scratch to try and regain his countries liberty. The fight back began, but the odds were very much stacked against him. Wallace was eventually betrayed and captured at Robroyston near Glasgow, on 3rd August 1305. He was taken first to Dumbarton Castle, where his sword was left behind, and then he was taken south to London. He arrived in London on the 22nd August. The crowds were so great, so eager to see this Scottish “murderer” that he had to be kept the night in a house in Fenchurch Street. The next morning he was taken to Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Houses of Parliament, where his sham trial took place. He was allowed no defence, but he managed to shout above his accusers that he was “ A Scot, born in Scotland, and did not recognise England as his sovereign nation”. He was tied to the tails of horses, and dragged through the streets of London for 6 miles, eventually arriving at Smithfield Elms. Here he was hung, then cut down while still alive. His stomach was opened and his entrails were pulled out and burnt before him. His heart was then ripped out, ending his life. His body was cut to pieces, his head stuck on a spike on old London Bridge. The parts of his body were sent north to dishonour the Scots. Longshanks thought by giving him such an ignoble death that the Scots would forget Wallace, and there were religious connotations too. Wallace would have no body to rise on Judgement Day, and so be damned forever. But Sir William Wallace needs no tomb. His memory lives on in the heart and souls of Scots, every generation recognising his devotion to his native soil, and he will be remembered by Scots men and women till the end of time.