Wallace was the younger son of a Scottish knight and minor landowner. His name, Wallace or le Waleis, means the Welshman, and he was probably descended from Richard Wallace who had followed the ...

A letter written for William Wallace in 1300 has been displayed in ... written in a form of Latin shorthand, is from the King of France to his agents at the papal court in Rome and instructs ...

Until 1297 the heavily armed and mounted knight had been an invincible force on the battlefield. Stirling Bridge was the first battle in Europe to see a common army of spearmen defeat a feudal host.

Some Scots refused to see Edward as their king and fought back. One of those people was a man called William Wallace. We don't know much about Wallace's early life but in 1297, he is reported to ...