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Robin Hood games, although it is not clear exactly what those were or when they were first played. The first record of them is at Exeter in 1426 and it may be that both Maid Marian and Friar Tuck were inventions to fit these games rather than linked to the historicity of Robin himself. Robin was the equivalent of the May King, with Marian as Queen.
James Fields
Origins of friar tuck and marion in later stories could have come from here
Robin Hood: English Outlaw (the origins of the legend and the search for a historical Robin Hood)
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