William Wallace

[huwwaters]

Braveheart will be on BBC 1 Wales on Tuesday night. Can I request the history of William Wallace?

Thank You

Huw Waters - 14

Wales requires a William Wallace themselves to get rid of mostly English commands.

Cymro ar y we.

[Babz]

Found this address for you in an ealier thread.

http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace/

[Celyn]

Hello – croeso y scotland.com! I fear this could be too late to be of much use, but here goes – a hurried set of links! I do hope they are of some interest or use!



http://www.3wnet.com/pers/wec/hist/scothist.html


http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/


http://www.stir.ac.uk/theuni/recruit...ng/wallace.htm


http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/2411.html


http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1307bruce.html


Now we want a film about Owain Glyndwr too!

cymru gu bragh
willie

[ANDY-J]

William Wallace was Welsh.The name Wallace is derived from the word Wallis which was used to denote his Brythonic lineage.His ancestors were the Britons of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde and until the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons the 'Welsh'(Britons)controlled all of South West Scotland and Cumbria.They were eventually squeezed further South into Wales by the expansion of the Scots kingdom of Dalriada and the Saxons of Mercia and Northumbria.

[Danny]

The Merciand and Northumbrians weren't Saxons but Angles. The Saxons lived in the South of present-day England.

[ANDY-J]

Danny,
There were several distinct Germanic tribes which arrived in Britain after the departure of the Romans,including Angles,Saxons and Jutes.In general the term Anglo-Saxon is employed by historians when referring to any Germanic tribe which settled in Britain at this time.