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Have you seen the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson as William Wallace? I found it to be a very very bloody gory movie thus only have watched half of the film. Anyway, here’s a memorial near the place where he was executed in 1305.

London, England

The 23rd August 2005 marks the 700th Anniversary of the execution of the hero of the Scots Wars of Independence, Sir William Wallace, by being hanged, drawn and quartered at Smithfield, London. The site is marked by a memorial on the wall of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield. The Latin couplet was taught to the young Wallace by one of his uncles, the Priest of Dunipace.

A great deal of mythology attaches to Wallace, much quite recent, as a result of the film “Braveheart”, starring and directed by Mel Gibson, though the film has brought much needed attention to the period and its main protagonists. We had, for example, the Battle of Stirling Bridge without a bridge, lowland Scots in kilts, Wallace’s face painted blue and white and much else. Much artistic licence was used to convey the spirit of the times.

The real Wallace was born between 1270 and 1276, originally thought to have been in Elderslie, near Paisley, in Renfrewshire, though there is a more recent view that he was born in Ayrshire. The recent discovery of his seal shows he was the younger son of Alan Wallace of Ayrshire, whose name appears on the Ragman Rolls (Waleys, Aleyn (tenant le Roi du counte de Are)). He was educated by two uncles, both priests, in Latin and French.

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