Question is not clear. Do you mean "Why was Robin Hood considered an invented story rather than a historical fact?" or "Why did Robin Hood achieve status as a legend rather than other outlaws?" I deal with the latter question both in my Midwest Folklore article "Jesse James as Robin Hood" and the "Afterward" to my novel The Robin Hood Chronicles. The appeal of Robin Hood is that he was a scamp who could make you laugh while he was robbing you.-- Sam Sackett
(nice try, but read on after this answer) Because he was 'robin' the 'hood'...
(Robbing the [rich in the] neighborhood) I won't take that away, it sounds cute, But Robin Hood was an assumed name to protect his family and heritage, He came from money and power, Saxon nobility and he was known as "Robin of Loxley" So after coming back from fighting in the crusades which the king of the land, King Richard (Also known as Richard the Lionheart) also fought in, but remained behind fighting when robin came home. When robin got back to his home and found out that Prince John had been taxing the people extremely large amounts of money He assumed the name Robin Hood gathered some town's people that he could trust and rely on to help end Prince Johns taxing and The sheriff of Nottingham from collecting the tax. But we all know its just a legend and fable, It was likely that this legend arose from a local hero of England "Hereward the Wake", Who led a rebellion against "William the conqueror" And the "Normans"
robin hood was a theif ,stole from rich to give to the poor
Robin Hood was helping the poor.
Robin Hood was born in 1971, and died in 1999
The Sherwood outlaw Robin Hood was approximately 5'10 1/2" tall.
The earliest source of information about how and where Robin Hood died is a ballad called "The Death of Robin Hood." I follow it pretty closely in my novel The Robin Hood Chronicles. In the ballad Robin is ill and is taken by Little John to the convent at Kirklees, where his cousin, who is skilled in medicine, is prioress. It is there that he dies. The ballad does not indicate the nature of the illness he is being treated for; in my novel I assume it was the Black Death, a plague which killed hundreds of people in England in 1348.
where did robin hood get captured He never did. He came close at the battle of loxley but he was never a prisoner.
Robin hood may have been modeled after a real person, called Robin of Locksley.
Robin Hood was active in a wood called Sherwood forest.
a person steals from the rich and gives it to the poor.
Of the millions of people that have a Facebook account there will be, without too much doubt, someone called Robin Hood.
no Robin Hood was not evil yes Robin Hood was evil
robin hood is the most famous and the best because my brother IS robin hood
The members of Robin Hood's gang are commonly referred to as "Merry Men."
No, Robin Hood is not single.
Robin Hood was with Allan A Dale, Friar Tuck, and Little John.
Christopher Robin Hood's birth name is Hood, Christopher Robin.
no one is sure if a guy called Robin Hood existed it's a myth that has lasted for centuries, but Sherwood Forest does exist (where he was from).
Robin Longstride is given as the name for Robin Hood in the 2010 movie, Robin Hood.