St Kentigern's Burial Ground, Lanark, Scotland

            The ruins of the ancient parish church of Lanark, dedicated to Saint Kentigern. Legend has it that the greatest of Scottish patriots, William Wallace, married his wife Marion Braidfute (Broadfoot in English) here, probably around the year 1296. Marion was the daughter of the laird of Lamington who had a town house in Lanark. She was murdered soon afterwards by soldiers of the Sheriff of Lanark, a man by the name of Haselrigg who had previously murdered her brother. 

Wallace took a swift and terrible revenge. He, along with some of his men, broke into the castle of Lanark in the middle of the night, overpowered the guards, roused the sleeping Haselrigg from sleep and split his skull to the collarbone with his massive two-handed sword. The Sheriff's son, hearing the commotion, burst into his father's apartment and suffered the same fate.

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Lanark (show map)

Taken on: April 25, 2021

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