William Wallace - terrorist or freedom fighter?
Which do you think he was?
I have no thoughts on it either way; I just find it amusing that we use those words interchangeably, depending on our allegiance.
Well based on the film, he was a freedom fighter. The King of England was enforcing Prima Nocta trying to breed the Scots out instead of fighting them out. This right was the privilege of English Nobles to sleep with a woman on the first night of her marriage.
Not sure if this really happened or not. Google says it’s a myth so that pretty much guarantees it really happened.
It's not just a matter of "Google says." Reputable historical scholars agree that it was a myth. All the historical references to this practice were from hundreds of years after the time when it was supposed to have happened; basically a way to make past generations look uncivilized.
“Excellent”
Some examples of reputable historical scholars would be helpful.
A couple examples:
W.D. Howarth of the University of Bristol: "'Droit du Seigneur': Fact or Fantasy," originally published in the March 1, 1971 issue of The Journal of European Studies.
Alain Boureau of l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris: "The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage," published 1998 by University of Chicago Press.
Did they have any comment on Wallace being able to shoot fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightening from his arse?
shareFrom what I understand no King of England ever enacted Prima Nocta
shareGoogle is just a search engine that lists sites which might know. It itself doesn't know anything and is no different than Bing or Yahoo or DuckDuckGo.
People are quite ignorant when it comes to tech generally. Not saying you are but just that Google is just one among several competent search engines.
Now, re. the issue, we don't know without good records of such things. Likely some Lords did some shenanigans like this and it became an issue for them then to take up arms. I mean, the practice is despicable.