The on September 18 is fast approaching. The most prominent cultural touchstone for Scottish separatism is Mel Gibson's 1995 epic Braveheart, about William Wallace's 13th-century campaign against British rule, so it's unsurprising that the film is enjoying some in the run-up to the vote.If you're inspired by current events to dust off your copy of the Oscar-winner, be warned: you won't learn anything about Scottish history. In fact, the current struggle for Scottish independence has about as much to do with the events depicted in Braveheart as America's ongoing racial struggles have to do with the events depicted in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Princess Isabella was a protagonist in the film Braveheart. Isabella was the daughter of King Philip IV of France. In the 1290s her father and the English King. So why doesn't history remember her as Braveheart? Isabella's father was Philip IV of France – Phillip the Fair. Yes, she was beautiful, but she was royal,.

That is to say, there may be some similarities in theme and audience, but the Hollywood epic is too thoroughly fictionalized to offer much in the way of insight. Too bad there's not a better movie for headline writers to reference in the run up to this potentially historic vote.Here are just some of the many ways that Braveheart flubbed the story. Scotland's nobles didn't meet in 1280 to choose their king, and the English didn't massacre them immediately afterwardBraveheart opens in 1280, with a scene of nobles gathering to choose a new king, after the previous king, Alexander III had died. After they select a new ruler, they are surprised by the army of England's King Edward I and slaughtered en masse. Dramatically, this works well. It sets up the English as treacherous and explains why Wallace (who, in the movie, is a young boy during the massacre and witnesses the death of his father and brother) would believe English rule is illegitimate.However, it's completely historically inaccurate. Alexander III was still alive in 1280, as was his granddaughter Margaret, the 'Maid of Norway,' who was his heir.

The daughter of the Fair of, Isabella was married to Edward on January 25, 1308, at. Isabella’s first interventions in politics were conciliatory. During the height of the influence of the king’s favourite and after Gaveston’s murder in 1312, she attempted to promote peace between Edward and the barons. In the 1320s, however, Edward’s new favourites, the, aroused her antagonism.

Isabella sailed for France in 1325 to settle a long-standing dispute over. Joined there by her son, the future, she announced her refusal to return to England until the Despensers were removed from court. She became the mistress of of Wigmore and with Mortimer and other baronial exiles crossed to in 1326 and routed the forces of Edward and the Despensers.After the accession of Edward III (1327), Isabella and Mortimer enjoyed a brief period of influence, until 1330, when the young king asserted his independence by the arrest and execution of Mortimer. Isabella was sent into retirement.

In her she joined an order of nuns, the. Transport giant tycoon. This article was most recently revised and updated by, Editor.