All the while, Wallace seeks the assistance of Robert the Bruce ( Macfadyen ), the son of nobleman Robert the Elder and a contender for the Scottish crown.

As significant as he is to the plot, he has fewer lines than the relatively insignificant Ross, a Scottish nobleman who survives the play.

1095-1128 ), a Scottish nobleman

Early the next morning, Lennox, a Scottish nobleman, and Macduff, the loyal Thane of Fife, arrive.

* January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman and boxer ( b. 1844 )

* December 14 – William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nobleman ( d. 1651 )

* October – Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician ( b. 1541 )

** William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, Scottish nobleman

* August 3 – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman and soldier ( b. 1671 )

** Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician ( b. 1507 )

** George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish nobleman ( d. 1562 )

* February 10 – John " the Red " Comyn, Scottish nobleman

* probable – William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish nobleman ( d. 1384 )

** John Menteith, Scottish nobleman ( d. 1323 )

* Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland ( 1656 – 1694 ), Scottish nobleman

John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO ( 20 July 184431 January 1900 ) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the " Marquess of Queensberry rules " that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

The marriage upset Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, as a possible union between Catherine and the Earl of Arran, a young and unstable nobleman with a strong claim to the Scottish throne, was now removed from the table.

* William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton ( 1616 – 1651 ), Scottish nobleman

* William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton ( 1635 – 1694 ), Scottish nobleman

* William Douglas-Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton ( 1811 – 1863 ), Scottish nobleman

* William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton ( 1845 – 1895 ), Scottish nobleman

* Archibald I, Lord of Douglas ( d. c. 1238 ), Scottish nobleman

* Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas ( Archibald the Grim, c. 1328 – 1400 ), Scottish nobleman

* Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas ( 1372 – 1424 ), Scottish nobleman and warlord, Duke of Touraine

* Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas ( 1390 – 1439 ), Scottish nobleman, de jure Duke of Touraine

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

* 1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist ( d. 1982 )

His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

Fans come from all over the world to see the places in Scotland where William Wallace fought for Scottish freedom, and also to the places in Scotland and Ireland to see the locations used in the film.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

William Aiton, a Scottish botanist, included an entry for the cranberry in volume II of his 1789 work, Hortus Kewensis.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

* 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( b. 1585 )

* 1585 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( d. 1649 )

Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.