William Wallace as an English commander

hey, all. some of you may be familiar with my English victory at Hastings thread, where part of the consensus ended up being that the alliance and eventual union between England, Ireland, and Scotland would be more mutually agreeable and less controversial had the Normans not conquered the isles

anyway, i was wondering recently what others thought about the notion of William Wallace as a loyalist to the English crown since there would (probably) not be any Scottish Wars of Independence ITTL. personally, i was wondering if he would fit best as a Scottish-English commander in an analogous war elsewhere in Europe, perhaps in Brittany (i decided a while ago that England would have control of this region for centuries due to butterflies) or if the fact that he's just a landowner IOTL would mean that he stays just that and doesn't have any kind of military career
 
Well if Scots-English relations were better and no constant warring and betrayal animosity on both sides ought to be reduced, and if that's the case, as you said WW maybe just becomes another landowner and never really becomes historically important, though you never know maybe he still gets into the military and distinguishes himself, though of course not near as much as OTL
 
If William Wallace isn't killing Englishmen then Mel Gibson won't be interested in making a movie about him.
 
I can't see it happening. In this scenario Wallace is nothing more than minor landholder. He has no pretensions to gentility, far less nobility. English commanders of the time almost had to be from the nobility (they could be from the gentility if they were in church orders).

But a minor landlord from Scotlandshire? Doubtful.
 
Yeah, the whole reason Wallace got so far up the chain of command was because most of our nobility had been nabbed at Dunbar castle. And his name came after the noble Andre Murray's on the documents even when Murray was dying of his wounds.
 
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