The legend of the first Lord of Kinfauns: a French knight turned pirate, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
France, about 1300. Thomas de Longueville has killed a nobleman in front of the king and been refused a pardon. He takes to the sea, and under a red sail, as the Red Reaver, he becomes the terror of every ship afloat.Legend says that William Wallace, sailing for France, met the pirate at sea, fought him and took him prisoner.Wallace asked the king for mercy. Philip the Fair pardoned the Red Reaver and knighted him, and Sir Thomas followed Wallace home to Scotland.January 1313, the taking of Perth. When Robert the Bruce waded the icy moat, Sir Thomas was the first to follow him into the water, and the story goes that his reward was the lordship of Kinfauns.
