Who is Malclm Wallace father

Question

Who is Malcolm Wallace B  1249 in Scotland Father and Mother?

Answer 1

First you must understand last name spelling does change in time,A lot of it was  caused by people of little education,could not read,write ort spell.So this answer
is going to look odd,the first Wallace was abt 1100,they immigrated from Normandy. back then it could have been Le Waleis.Richard Wallace of Oswestry.was among the first mentioned.Anyway to answer your question,Malcom Wallace was the younger son of Adam Wallace,he had an older brother,they both received land in Auchinbothie and Elderslie in Renfrewshire.You must understand there may be other cousins in the wallace lines with the same name,Another thing to understand an many situations historians only Know they were there and only estimate ages.

Wayne R.Morgan

Comments

A good site for medieval research for Scotland is www.poms.ac.uk

Answer 2

My response is going to ignore the parents question asked, instead focus on the Malcolm, presumably the Malcolm named by Blind Harry as father of Malcolm and William. Searching for a presumptive father born in 1249 is perhaps a decade or more later than might be practical; IF he was father of Malcolm, probably born about 1268, and William, said by one researcher to be born in 1270, then a 1249-born Malcolm would be too close to the birth years of his sons, in my opinion. That being said, let's take a look at that family from the perspective of Blind Harry's misnaming the father, perhaps with an assist from Sir William Wallace of Craigie in the 1470s about the time Harry's book was published. William "Braveheart" states on his seal that he is the son of Alan Wallace, a man with that name found on the Ragman Rolls of 1296, living in the county of Ayr. Assuming "Braveheart" knew who his father was, then his older brother, Malcolm, and younger brother, John, also were the sons of Alan Wallace. Blind Harry did not name the mother, other than to say she was the daughter of the Sheriff of Ayr, and named only two sons, Malcolm and William. Given that bit of inaccuracy, it's not surprising to find Alan alive in 1296 to put his seal on the Ragman Roll, Malcolm, the older brother, still around in 1299 at a meeting of nobles in Peebles. One might well wonder where Harry got his information, and/or whether Sir William Wallace of Craigie in the 1470s was perhaps promoting his family line rather than the line with Alan Wallace.