Elizabeth Wallace can not be the daughter of William Wallace because he never had children.
He did have brothers but no children. Never Married.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace
Elizabeth Wallace can not be the daughter of William Wallace because he never had children.
He did have brothers but no children. Never Married.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace
She may have been his natural daughter.
Need to check what contemporary historians think. I know Blind Harry’s stories are not necessarily fact.
More historic sources which aren’t necessarily reliable either. I’m looking at Wikitree’s comments:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wallace-434
Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910, Vol. VII, Archive.org, page 365
https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun07pauluoft/page/365/mod...
Chalmers, George. Caledonia : Or, a Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain, from the Most Ancient to the Present Times with a Dictionary of Places Chorographical & Philological. Paisley : Gardner, 1887.
vol 6. Pg. 742.
https://archive.org/details/caledoniaorhisto0006chal/page/447/mode/...
Sir William Wallace left no legitimate issue, but he left a natural daughter, who is said to have married Sir William Baillie of Hoprig, the progenitor of the Baillies of Lamington.
Page 365 of "The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume 7", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, and published in 1910 by David Douglas of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Citations to document that historians find that wife Marion Braidfoot, {fictional} and daughter daughter Wallace were invented people, and not the wife & child of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, Kt.
It appears that Hugh Braidfute of Lamington, {fictional} his father FNU Braidfort, {fictional} and wife Wife of Hugh Braidfute of Lamington, {fictional} were invented also, as there were no Braidfute’s living at Lamington in the 13th century.
Here’s a more detailed description.
https://clanwallace.org/cw/wallaces-wife-marion-braidfute-was-inven...
Marion Braidfute, wife of William Wallace, was a fictional character concocted by medieval biographers, a leading historian has claimed. Braidfute, who was supposedly murdered by the Sheriff of Lanark, triggering Wallace’s rebellion against the English, was created more than 200 years after his death to heighten the political standing of a noble family, according to new research.
Cross reference discussions on geni.
Marion Braidfute of Lamington - William Wallace
Posted 12/20/2022 at 9:08 PM
https://www.geni.com/discussions/258540?msg=1604010
Since William de Bailleul of Cavers, 1st of Lamington did have a wife, and his son William Baliol, of Hoprig, 2nd of Lamington had a mother, we will continue her profile as daughter Wallace with the “by tradition” name of “daughter Wallace.” She could not have been the “heiress of Lamington” via the Braidfoots, if at all.
She’s been detached as daughter of Marion Braidfoot, {fictional} and Marion’s family marked “fictional.” Marion has been detached as wife of the Guardian of Scotland, William Wallace of Elderslie.
Anne Brannen - the link you had posted was the most complete I found. I was taken aback the debunk was not more widely available. Even good sites still have them connected with the “not sure existed” comment.
So, glad we got this done.
Yes. To be quite open about the whole thing, I think that at the point I was putting things together on that profile I was sorta exhausted from something — probably the why have you labeled so many high kings of Ireland fictional, or maybe why am I no longer descended from the sun god — and i did not feel like I could face, at the time, the William Wallace issue.
Don’t get me started on Braveheart. The pinnacle of made up history.