The Red Reaver fights for Scotland, swears to avenge Wallace, follows the Bruce into the moat at Perth, and wins a bride and Kinfauns.
Scotland. Sir Thomas fought at Wallace’s side wherever the war went. In Elcho Park, in the woods on the Tay below Perth, they cut their way through the English, and across the river rose the hill of Kinfauns.1305. Wallace was betrayed and carried off to London to die. At Lochmaben Sir Thomas swore that he would never leave Scotland, and that Wallace would be avenged.January 1313, the taking of Perth. He had found his avenger in Robert the Bruce. When the King waded the icy moat up to his throat, Sir Thomas was the first to follow him into the water.June 1314, Bannockburn. Sir Thomas stood with the King in the hedge of Scottish spears on the day the English army broke, and Wallace was avenged at last.The King rewarded him with land, and he won a bride as well. The story goes that the heiress of the Charteris family chose the French knight for her husband and brought him Kinfauns with her hand. He took her name, and Thomas de Longueville became Thomas Charteris.1330. Bruce was dead, but his son did not forget. By charter the boy king David II made Thomas de Carnoto, as the Latin calls him, Lord of the half lands of Kinfauns, for his homage and good service.
