How did Robin Hood die?

Answer 1

Robin dies by bleeding out. He goes to a healer woman with either Will Scarlet or Little John (varies) because he was ill. Now the story again varies on whether is was the healer woman to bled him more than she should have (a common practice) for pay.

His last words was bury me where my last arrow falls.

Answer 2

If in the TV series you are on about he died because he got poisoned by his sword by a lady and he sadly died in the forest.
There will not be a Series 4

IN the 1976 movie "Robin and Marian", with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in the title roles, Marian surreptitiously poisons both Robin and herself. Robin had just found Marian after years of being away from her. He had just fought the Sheriff of Nottingham to the death in a one on one fight and was rejoicing that it was one of the best days of his life. Marian knew that he would be hunted down and that there would never be a better day for them than this one. So she tricked Robin into drinking poison then drank some herself. Even Robin understood the logic as he died with Marian.

Answer 3

The earliest sources of the Robin Hood legend are ballads, one of which is called "The Death of Robin Hood." In it Robin Hood dies in the priory of Kirklees, which is in Yorkshire. I follow the ballads in my novel The Robin Hood Chronicles.

Answer 4

There is no substantial historical evidence that a real Robin Hood ever existed.

Robin Hood was feeling poorly one day so he went and visited his cousin, a nun in a convent, to get bled. People in those days thought that bleeding had medicinal benefits. Unfortunately the poor girl bleed him too much and he became very ill indeed. Little John wanted to burn down the convent but Robin restrained him and shot an arrow into Sherwood Forest and told him 'where that arrow falls there let me lie.'

The earliest source is a Ballad called "The Death of Robin Hood," dating from some time before 1450; I use that and other early ballads as the basis for my novel The Robin Hood Chronicles. In the ballad Robin's cousin, the prioress of the convent, is having an illicit love affair with Sir Roger of Doncaster; she deliberately overbleeds Robin in an attempt to keep her love affair secret; but even though weakened, Robin fights Sir Roger and kills him. In another ballad Robin becomes a yeoman of King Edward, most likely Edward II; Edward II had a valet and porter named Robyn Hod, whom I identify as the real Robin Hood. Nothing is heard about Robyn Hod after 1345; in my novel I conjecture that the reason Robin "was feeling poorly" was that he had contracted the Black Death, which killed hundreds of people in England in 1348.

Answer 5

In the ballad "The Death of Robin Hood," Robin is ill and is taken by Little John to his cousin, the abbess of Kirklees, to be sured. In those days a common treatment for any illness was bleeding, often by the application of leeches. In the ballad the abbess is having an illicit love affair with Sir Roger of Doncaster and, to hide this from becoming public, she overbleeds Robin. Robin and Sir Roger fight, Robin kills Sir Roger, but Robin dies from overexertion. But what was the illness for which Robin was originally taken to Kirklees?

For reasons I explain in the Afterword to my novel, The Robin Hood Chronicles, I date Robin in the 14th century and identify him with a Robyn Hod who was alive in 1323 and 1345 and the years in between. Nothing is documented about Robyn Hod after 1345. In 1348 there was a plague called the Black Death in England which killed hundreds of people. I think that's what Robin was dying of when Little John took him to Kirklees.

Answer 6

Robin Hood died when he took an arrow shot in the back.

Answer 7

Proboly of age