Braveheart Trailer. William Wallace. From New World Encyclopedia A statue of William Wallace by the entrance of Edinburgh Castle Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – August 23, 1305) was a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English military occupation of Scotland during significant periods of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Wallace was the inspiration for the historical novel The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie written by the fifteenth-century minstrel Blind Harry. For centuries after its publication, Harry's epic poem, ‘The Wallace’ was the second-most popular book in Scotland, outdone only by the Bible. Braveheart Wiki. Braveheart (1995.