About: Governor of York   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Governor of York was a minor villain in the movie Braveheart. A nephew of the English King Edward "Longshanks" he was named the governor of the English city of York and surrounding areas in the late 13th century. While Governor he became notorious for hanging innocent Scots - including women and children - from the city walls. Upon learning of a rebellion north of the city in Scotland, he appealed to his cousin Prince Edward for aid. The Prince responded that he had no troops to spare.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Governor of York
rdfs:comment
  • The Governor of York was a minor villain in the movie Braveheart. A nephew of the English King Edward "Longshanks" he was named the governor of the English city of York and surrounding areas in the late 13th century. While Governor he became notorious for hanging innocent Scots - including women and children - from the city walls. Upon learning of a rebellion north of the city in Scotland, he appealed to his cousin Prince Edward for aid. The Prince responded that he had no troops to spare.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • The Governor of York was a minor villain in the movie Braveheart. A nephew of the English King Edward "Longshanks" he was named the governor of the English city of York and surrounding areas in the late 13th century. While Governor he became notorious for hanging innocent Scots - including women and children - from the city walls. Upon learning of a rebellion north of the city in Scotland, he appealed to his cousin Prince Edward for aid. The Prince responded that he had no troops to spare. Meanwhile William Wallace's forces arrived and laid siege to the city. The Governor was given a chance to escape to safety, however he refused on the grounds that he wasn't going to put himself in the position of having to tell his uncle that he lost the greatest city in northern England. After several hours Wallace's forces were able to overcome the fortifications and enter the city. The Governor was beheaded by Wallace. His head was sent to Longshanks along with a message that Wallace had sacked the city.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software