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From 1189 to 1199 it was said that King Richard I was in power over England but had to leave his throne for the crusades during his rule. He was only in his throne six months of the ten years he was King and he didn’t even speak English, he spoke French. While he was gone his brother, John, Count of Mortain, took over. He taxed the people of the kingdom and abused his powers so most of them could barely, or couldn’t afford to eat.

Robert Fitzooth was a young, very hungry man who went out to find some food. In some legends he was a nobleman and in others he was a yeoman, a man who is either a man who owns his own land and was a farmer, or a sort of bodyguard and servant. He went onto the King’s fields and spotted a deer; he shot it with his bow and arrow and went to get it when the king’s foresters stopped him. The deer Robert had killed was one of the king’s deer and the penalty for killing it was death. Robert took an arrow and shot it close to the captain of the foresters’ arm and ran off to the forest. He would have to change his name, his mother had called him Robin and he would add Hood for the hood he would wear to cover his face.

He, after a while, had gotten so famous for being an outlaw helper that other people, who couldn’t stay on their land, started coming to him and he eventually had a whole band of men two of them being Friar Tuck and Little John. They started taking from the rich and giving to the poor people of England. Robin, however, never left the house leaving nothing for the owners, he would leave them food and water and enough money for them to live off of.

Maid Marian seems to be a major part of all Robin Hood legends but some say that she never came into the legend until around the 1600’s when it started to appear in the written stories. During an arrow shooting contest, in one legend, Robin Hood disguised himself as someone else and won a kiss from Maid Marian

Robin Hood falls ill and goes with Little John to Kirkley Hall to get bled by his cousin at the nunnery but she bled him too much and her lover stabbed him. Robin blew his hunting horn and Little John came but it was too late and Robin shot one last arrow and said where it lands he would like to be buried. Little John threatened to burn down the nunnery but Robin stopped him because he had never harmed a woman.

There are many different legends of Robin Hood and this is just a mix of some of them. Most follow the same plot and some are totally different, but Robin Hood lived around 800 years ago before most people wrote stories down and his legends were passed down through generations orally. We do not know what Robert Fitzooth did or even if he existed at all, he is just a story.

Bibliography

“Robin Hood.” Taken from the World Wide Web at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/CAMELOT/rh/rhhome.stm on February 22, 2007.

“Robin Hood.” Taken from the World Wide Web at http://ledgends.duelingmodems.com/robinhood/index.html on February 22, 2007.

“Robin Hood.” Taken from the World Wide Web at http://www.robinhood.uk.com/ on February 22, 2007.

Osborne, Mary Pope, Howell, Troy. Favorite Medieval Tales. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1998.

Holt, J.C. Robin Hood. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1989.

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