Editing Robin Hood (section)

===Robert and John Deyville===
Historian Oscar de Ville discusses the career of John Deyville and his brother Robert, along with their kinsmen Jocelin and Adam, during the [[Second Barons' War]], specifically their activities after the [[Battle of Evesham]]. John Deyville was granted authority by the faction led by [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester]] over [[York Castle]] and the Northern Forests during the war in which they sought refuge after Evesham. John, along with his relatives, led the remaining rebel faction on the [[Isle of Ely]] following the [[Dictum of Kenilworth]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=de Ville |first=Oscar |year=1998 |title=John Deyville: A Neglected Rebel |journal=Northern History|volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=17–40 |doi=10.1179/007817298790178420}}</ref> De Ville connects their presence there with Bower's mention of "Robert Hood" during the aftermath of Evesham in his annotations to the ''Scotichronicon''.

While John was eventually pardoned and continued his career until 1290, his kinsmen are no longer mentioned by historical records after the events surrounding their resistance at Ely, and de Ville speculates that Robert remained an outlaw. Other points de Ville raises in support of John and his brothers' exploits forming the inspiration for Robin Hood include their properties in Barnsdale, John's settlement of a mortgage worth £400 paralleling Robin Hood's charity of identical value to Sir [[Richard at the Lee]], relationship with Sir Richard Foliot, a possible inspiration for the former figure, and ownership of a fortified home at Hood Hill, near [[Kilburn, North Yorkshire]]. The last of these is suggested to be the inspiration for Robin Hood's second name as opposed to the more common theory of a head covering.<ref>{{cite journal |last=de Ville |first=Oscar |year=1999 |title=The Deyvilles and the Genesis of the Robin Hood Legend |journal=Nottingham Medieval Studies|volume=43 |pages=90–109 |doi=10.1484/J.NMS.3.295}}</ref> Perhaps not coincidentally, a "Robertus Hod" is mentioned in records among the holdouts at Ely.<ref>Rennison, Nick. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5fWEAAAAQBAJ Robin Hood: Myth, History and Culture]'' (Oldcastle Books, 2012).</ref>

Although de Ville does not explicitly connect John and Robert Deyville to Robin Hood, he discusses these parallels in detail and suggests that they formed prototypes for this ideal of heroic outlawry during the tumultuous reign of Henry III's grandson and Edward I's son, [[Edward II of England]].<ref>de Ville 1999, pp. 108–09</ref>