Given the scale that takes the rebellion, Edward I first sent the Princess Isabelle negotiate peace with Wallace. He refused gold, securities and land offered to him in exchange for his submission and impressed on Isabella, who expected to find a bloodthirsty barbarian blood, not a grown man. Later, learning that Edward I first preparing a surprise attack against Wallace, Isabelle sends his servant to warn of the danger. Wallace tries to unite the Scottish nobles against the English but on the battlefield of Falkirkhe is betrayed by the nobles Lochlan and Mornay. The Scots are defeated and Wallace discovers that Robert Bruce was in the English staff. He refuses to kill him, however, and Bruce, seized with remorse, allows him to escape the capture. Wallace then kills Lochlan and Mornay in retaliation and now leads a guerrilla war against the British.Įdward I first made ambush Wallace by his killers, but warned again by Isabella, he foiled the trap and burned alive the English killers. He finds Isabelle falling under his spell and sleeping with him, discovering the love that Edward II did not give him. When Edward I first heard the news of the rebellion of Wallace, he charged his son, the first Prince of Wales in history, also named Edward , to end it. Prince Edouard is married to Isabelle de France but abandons him because he is homosexual. Meanwhile, Wallace and his troops multiply the blows and new strengths join him as his fame grows. Wallace inflicts a grievous defeat on the English army sent against him during the Battle of Stirling . He then sacks the city of York . Wallace is also seeking support from Robert Bruce, a strong pretender to the throne of Scotland, but this one, despite his admiration for Wallace, is very much influenced by his father, the leper, who presses him to support Wallace officially while remaining secretly close to the English. Edward I st of England , nicknamed Longshanks ( “leggy”) but The Hammer of Scots by the English, occupies much of southern Scotland . His oppression leads to death the father and brother of the young William Wallace . Years later, after Wallace has been raised abroad by his uncle, the Scots continue to live under the cruel laws of Edward I st . Wallace returns to his native village with the intention of living as a farmer and to avoid getting involved in the turmoil that is agitating the country. He meets his friend and childhood lover, Murron MacClannough, to whom he shows thethistle , carefully preserved, which she had given him when they were children. The two young men marry in secret in order to avoid the decree of the noctis primae(right of the “first night”) that the king has stated. Later, when an English soldier brutalizes Murron and tries to rape her, Wallace flies to her rescue. He helps her ride so that she escapes while holding the soldiers. But she is finally captured and the sheriff cuts her throat in public, proclaiming, “An attack on the king’s soldiers is like an attack on the king himself”. In retaliation, Wallace, soon joined by the villagers, massacred the English garrison and cut the sheriff’s throat at the very spot where he killed Murron, and with the same dagger . Thus begins Wallace ‘s quest for the independence of Scotland .