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They viewed him as a martyr and continued his fight, even sought french assistance yet they failed to assist once needing Edwards help.
that individuals would rise with him in an efforts to regain what was taken from them
Vastly out numbered, forced to fight an open battle, abandonment, and being lied to resulting in him being betrayed and back stabbed.
William Wallace’s efforts to free Scotland from England’s grasp came just a year after his country initially lost its freedom, when he was 27 years old.May 1297, Wallace and some 30 other men burned the Scottish town of Lanark and killed its English sheriff. Wallace then organized a local army and attacked the English strongholds between the Forth and Tay rivers.
knighted in April 1298 Edward ordered a second invasion reclaiming a few castles but the Scottish refused to meet them due to the English having had an up rise in their own army left them with lack of food and low moral William evaded capture until august 5th 1305 when a Scottish knight loyal to Edward (John De-Menteith) turned Wallace over to English soldiers in Robroyston where he was transported to London where he was judged in Westminster's half responding to the treason charge saying “i could not be a traitor to Edward for i was never his subject” on august 23rd he was taken to the tower of London where he was stripped naked and dragged through the city by his heels by a horse where he was then hanged drawn and quartered which was strangling him by hanging but released while he was still alive emasculated sliced open had his intestines set on fire while he was alive then eventually beheaded his body cut into four parts his head dipped in tar hung above London bridge as was his brothers John and Simon Fraser and his limbs displayed in Newcastle Berwick Stirling and Perth.
Disregard for the English in terms of their officers and king's refusal to submit to English rule was not in accordance to Scottish nobles, murder (to an extent)
William Wallace stepped out of social norms when his country lost it's freedom.
William Wallace born in around 1207 dying in the year 1305 was a Scottish knight born of lesser nobility having been the main figurehead or leader for the war for Scottish independence very little is known of this man's early form of life but his life eventually resulting in him being hung, drawn and quartered for high treason against the English crown for crimes against the king and English civilians his name didn't stop there it fetched far from his own homeland begin used as the main character in a fifteenth century poem known as The Wallace by blind harry.
the battle of Stirling bridge his first victory over the English army from that point on his was dawned the guardian of Scotland until the battle of Falkirk being his final defeat until being captured near Glasgow in Robroyston When growing up as a young lad in Scotland king Andrew the third ruled over Scotland a time of great economic prosperity and peace among Scotland but immediately upon his dead (having fallen off of his horse and died) the heir to the throne was his granddaughter Margaret a child located in Norway eventually dying as well after having fell ill on the voyage to Scotland with this death there was no true heir so multiple families fought in order to control the territory having the possibility of a civil war emerging King Edward the First of England having insisted he be the lord of Scotland a judgement was made and a man known as John Balliol had the strongest claim the court viewing him as the successor to Andrew John was viewed as a lessor more weak king eventually Edward forced him to comply historians believe Wallace had some form of military experience in order to lead such a successful campaign with successful opportunistic strategic tactics on the terrain around November 1297 Wallace led a large scale raid into northern England.