Robin Hood history
The true name of ROBIN HOOD, was ROBERT FITZ-OOTH, the addition of FITZ, common to many Norman names, was afterwards often omitted or dropped : The two last letters TH being turned into D, he was called by the common people Ood or Hood. It is evident he was a man of quality, as by the annexed Pedigree, copied from Dr. STUKELEY'S Paloeographia Britanniae: JOHN SCOT, 10th Earl of Huntington, dying anno 1237, without issue R. FITZ-OOTH, was by the female line next heir to that title, as descended from GILBERT DE GAUNT Earl of Kyme and Lindsey. The title lying dormant during the last ten years of his life, there could be nothing unreasonable or extraordinary in his pretensions to that honor. The arms of ROBIN HOOD were gules, two bends engrailed or. In the old garland he is said to have been born at LOXLEY in Staffordshire; and in a shooting match, made by the KING and QUEEN, being chose by the latter for her archer, she calls him Loxley, a custom very common in those days to call persons of eminence by the name of the town where they were born.
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King Richard never called England home and barely spoke the language if at all. He was born in England but was taken to France as a child because he was never expected to take the throne, since his 2 brothers were older than he. Actually, he only thought of England as a wet dirty place that he could get money from for his war making. One of which was against his father and brothers, in which he took the crown from. John was actually the rightful heir to the throne. Richard spent a few months in England after being crowned and then set off on his crusade. On his return from the crusade.
he was captured and held ransom for 150,000 marks by Leopold, duke of Austria. His Brother John offered the duke 80,000 marks to hold him a bit longer until he was crowned king... unfortunately for John, the duke thought the idea less than virtuous.
Richard never made it back to England from the crusade. But he did forgive his brother after his release and actually named him heir instead of his son Arthur.
In 1199, he was in battle in France suppressing a revolt when he was shot with a crossbow bolt fired from a youth who was using a frying pan as a shield. The King applauded the shot and rewarded the boy with 100 shillings. Unfortunately, after Richard died, the boy was flayed alive. Richard was 41 years old.
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