William Wallace
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Wallace's Wife
Wallace is often seen as someone who did this for the higher values of god. He was inspired to fight by seeing a cloud formation coming out in terms of a saltire. The details of his marriage have been blurred by time, but we do know that he has a wife. In some accounts, she is called marian braithfoot. Whoever she was, the figure of wallace's wife is seen as the motivation for one of his most audacious exploits. While the sheriff rests, wallace attacks, slaughtering him in his sleep. Chronicles say that wallace dismembers the man's body, which supports the argument that what becomes known as the action at lanock was a
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