Robert the Bruce (Braveheart)

Robert the 17th Earl of Bruce is one of the main supporting heroes in Braveheart. He is played by Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen. the son of a leprosy-ridden Scottish nobleman named Robert the Elder. Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English. In the middle of the movie, urged by his father, Robert fights for the English against William Wallace and the Scots at Falkirk. As a wounded Wallace rushes to attack the English King Edward Longshanks, one of the king's lancers intercepts him, and it turns out to be Robert the Bruce. Remorseful, he gets Wallace to safety before the English can capture him. When Longshanks' nobles capture Wallace in a trap set by Robert's father, Robert berates and disowns him. At the end of the movie, however, Robert's leper father finally dies, and Robert, himself becomes Scotland's king before leading Wallace's men into a final battle against a stunned English army, winning the Scots their freedom for good.