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I wouldn't know myself but Holt was probably correct and if so it could have been part of the romance put about by the balladeers?

This may be nearer the truth and it is another mention of Yorkshire. It is only in recent years that someone who shall remain nameless tried to make out Robin Hood was from Nottingham. I really get sick to death of it.

Richard Grafton pursuing the theme of Robin Hood being a member of the nobility who had fallen on hard times has this to say.

He (Robin Hood) was discended of a nobel parentage: or rather beyng of a base stocke and linage, was for his manhoode and chivalry advaunced to the noble dignité of an Erle. Excellyng principally in Archery, or shootyng, his manly courage agreeyng therunto: But afterwardes he so prodigally exceeded in charges and expences, that he fell into great debt, by reason wherof, so many actions and sutes were commenced against him, wherunto he aunswered not, that by order of lawe he was outlawed, and then for a lewde shift (uneducated, immoral, on the move), as his last refuge, gathered together a companye of Roysters and Cutters (boisterous merrymaking ruffians, and cut-throats) and practised robberyes and spoylyng (pillage, rob, plunder, to seize by force) the kynges subjects, and occupied and frequentede the Forestes or wilde Countries. The which beyng certefyed to the King, and he beyng greatly offended therewith, caused his proclamation to be made that whosoever would bryng him quicke or dead, the king would geve him a great summe of money, as by the recordes in the Exchequer is to be seene: But of this promise, no man enjoyed any benefite.

For the sayd Robert Hood, beyng afterwardes troubled with sicknesse, came to a certein Nonry in Yorkshire called Bircklies, where desirying to be let blood, he was betrayed and bled to death. After whose death the Prioresse of the same place caused him to be buried by the high way side, where he had used to rob and spoyle those that passed that way. And upon his grave the sayde Prioresse did lay a very fayre stone, wherin the names of Robert Hood, William of Goldesborough and others were graven. And the cause why she buryed him there was for that the common passengers and travailers knowyng and seeyng him there buryed, might more safely and without feare take their jorneys that way, which they durst not do in the life of the sayd outlawes. And at eyther end of the sayde Tombe was erected a crosse of stone, which is to be seene there at this present (1569, pp. 84-85)."

Best regards Graham.

P.S.

And another thing, Robin Hood is associated with Loxley as a young man it is not where he died, so what on earth are people doing to say he is burried at Loxley in Warwickshire? Can people not think straight?

Oh, I get so mad.

The Folville gang in particular were seen as enforcing God's justice and divine order in a corrupt world and no-one would testify against either the Folvilles or the Cotteril gang, who both incidentally were in the Royal Forest of the Peak near Loxley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Folville

I wasn't meaning you Lady Archer and I am sorry for offending you. It is all these other people who get me so mad with their "Robin Hood came from here and Robin Hood came from there" and if they weighed it up with what few facts we have they would see it is nonsense. I could go on because I'm getting a bit wound up so I will leave it here ta, but one of these days I am going to have such an outburst that you wouldn't believe.

The concept of chivalry in the sense of "honourable and courteous conduct expected of a knight" was perhaps at its height in the 12th and 13th centuries and was strengthened by the Crusades, which led to the founding of the earliest orders of chivalry, the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitalers) and the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Templars), both originally devoted to the service of pilgrims to the Holy Land. In the 14th and 15th centuries the ideals of chivalry came to be associated increasingly with aristocratic display and public ceremony rather than service in the field.

(Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

I'm pretty sure that among this vast array of people there were many who held and farmed land, but if Robin Hood were a yeoman, and he may well have been, then he would have lost his lands when he was outlawed.

That rules out the Robin Hood landmarks in Nottingham then.

After establishing that Nottingham's sheriffs were in Yorkshire where the Rhymes are set, now with your latest post you are killing off Nottingham's Robin Hood landmarks.

Even St. Ann's Well that people point to in Nottingham was called "Owsell" in 1287. It only got the name "Robin Hood's Well" when some Robin Hood players had an affray there in the 1500's. It had nothing to do with Robin Hood really.