Edward VIII chose Wallis Simpson because he was deeply in love with her and wanted to marry her, despite her being a commoner and twice divorced. However, their relationship led to a constitutional crisis due to the Church of England's opposition to remarriage after divorce, which ultimately led to Edward abdicating the throne in order to be with Wallis.
Difficult question, it really is not know if Wallace was married or not,, even his own birth date is not certain and is quoted as being between 1260 and 1278.. However Marion Braidfute has been suggested.
There was no Battle of Stirling, it was the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
There is no evidence that Wallace ever met Robert the Bruce or the French Princess.
William Wallace (AKA "braveheart") was captured by the English king, known as Edward the Long Shanks , tortured and eventually beheaded. I don't know if this next part is true but i have heard that his body was torn to peices his arms and legs sent to the 4 corners of England and his head set on London bridge as a warning to other "traitors". Though he did not live to see it Scotland did win its freedom...for a while at least.
Edward I (Longshanks) of England. He was only an outlaw as far as the English king was concerned. Not an outlaw in Scotland.
In man-to-man encounters, both men were brutally psychopathic killers; Wallace had terrorized southern Scotland for years as a professional thief and murderer before rehabilitating himself through alignment with the Scottish enemies of Edward I, and Shaka Zulu assassinated scores of rivals in his consolidation of power, in some cases feeding the friends and family members of his enemies to wild hyenas. Neither of the two made their reputations as common foot soldiers, so it might as well be a coin toss if you dropped them each into an arena armed with nothing but bone daggers. Shaka Zulu was certainly by far the more notable strategic military innovator, and had been a distinguished member of a Zulu regiment, while Wallace was a brutish, unprincipled thug. Both were sadists, but which would win in an unarmed hand-to-hand fight would mostly depend on which one was healthier at the time.
A fairer comparison would be to compare Shaka Zulu with other empire builders like Napoleon (a roughly contemporary figure) or Ghengis Khan. William Wallace should be compared to medieval generals like the Sire of Coucy, or to guerrilla warfare tacticians like Jubal Early.
That's bullshitting mother f@*k&$
The Wallace sword on display at the Wallace monument in Stirling weighs 2.7 kg. There are however doubts as to its authenticity.
William Wallace did not fight at Bannockburn. Wallace died in 1305. The Battle of Bannockburn was in 1314.
he is believed to be loaded because he was the second son of a minor noble but noone really knows.
3 that I know of. Stirling Bridge, Louden Hill (or was that Robert the Bruce) and the Bell O' The Brae.
William Wallace led a war for independence from England. The English will tell you they did not murder Wallace, rather they executed him for treason and atrocities against civilians during war.
I looked this up and came up with 5 ( there could be more). I found them in Sterling, Aberdeen ,Melrose, Bemersyde, and Ayrshire .
It is believed he was born in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, very little in known of his early life. His family however are of minor Norman nobility and were followers of Walter Fitzallan, High Steward of Scotland. Before coming to Scotland, they likely lived in Wales or Shorpshire in England. The family appear on the Ragman Rolls as 'Le Waleys'
This is news to me, as far as i know little is known of wallace and his early life, yet his family seem to have come from wales, unbelievable !
the story of William Wallace is very much like the film; you just remove every single little detail of story, scenery, dialogue, and a good bit of the characters, voila.
He didn't. Wallace was betrayed to the English by a Scots knight named Sir John De Menteith, who was said to have turned over a bannock (a bap or roll of bread) on a tavern table, a sign to the English that he (Wallace) was among them.
William Wallace went to dundee high and that's why theres a house called Wallace house
its called "hollywood nonsense".
Blue body painting was worn by the ancient scots... more than 1000 years before Wallace was born.
However, it is commonly called woad, an indigo-blue dye made from the leaves of woad plants (Isatis tinctoria).
It should be noted that woad dye does not work very well as a paint, and it is uncertain exactly what material the Roman accounts of the Pictii (literally meaning "painted") were referring to, when it came to their blue paint - or even if it was paint - it could have been a form of tatooing.