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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5557314" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Thanks for the historical update.As for the fusion:  The Robin Hood legend is said to have roots in a particular individual, but it is still a legend.Timing of the tales would place it in the late 1100s to early 1200s though, considering the people involved:  The "Evil Prince John" of Robin Hood fame later became the unloved King John the 1st, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215.The Normans were, of course, from Normandy, and Richard is said to have spoken French better than he spoke English, due to the influence of his French mother.  The same is said of John (no matter how delightful the English accent of Claude Raines who played him in the famous movie.)As for the longbow against heavy armor:  If only the French had thought to armor their horses as thoroughly as they did themselves...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Having your horse fall while at a full charge can kill a man, and having it land on you can do much the same.Also note that the heaviest armor we have from the age was actually tournament armor, rather than field plate.  Tournament armor was heavier, specifically to resist the lance.  This was the stuff that caused tales to be told of knights needing ladders or winches to hoist them into the saddle, and of men who, once down, were as helpless as turtles on their backs.  (Not entirely true, but an indicator of the difference.)  Not something a man could or would wear for battles that may last days, and campaigns that might last for months.<edit>Not an historian, not pretending to be, and I'm sure your knowledge tops mine.  I'm just a gamer, with thte normal gamer's interest in the period.</edit></blockquote>

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