William Wallace statue in Union Gardens Aberdeen SCO 8156
William Wallace - The Wallace - is world famous; a national hero who fought and died to free Scotland from English rule. William is thought to have been the younger son of a Scots landowner, Alan Wallace. In the Scotichronicon, around the end of the 14th century Wallace was described as tall man with the body of a giant, cheerful in appearance with agreeable features, broad-shouldered and pleasing in appearance but with a wild look, broad in the hips, with strong arms and legs, a most spirited fighting-man, with all his limbs very strong and firm. Wallace may have been outlawed for killing the son of an English constable in Dundee, and may have killed two English soldiers who demanded the fish he had caught at Irvine Water. The English authorities saw Wallace as nothing more than a dangerous outlaw. In May 1297 Wallace was in Lanark. It is said that he was visiting his wife, the beautiful Marion Braidfute, who he had married in secret. Lanark Castle was held by an English sheriff, Sir William Heselrig. When Heselrig’s soldiers learned that Wallace was with Marion they surrounded him. Wallace escaped but Marion was captured by Heselrig. The English sheriff had Wallace’s wife put to death.
Size: 6063px × 4035px
Location: Union Square, Aberdeen Grampian Region Scotland. UK.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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