Editing Robin Hood (section)

===Alias===
It has long been suggested, notably by [[John Maddicott]], that "Robin Hood" was a [[Stock character|stock alias]] used by thieves.<ref>Dobson and Taylor, pp. xxi–xxii.</ref> What appears to be the first known example of "Robin Hood" as a stock name for an outlaw dates to 1262 in [[Berkshire]], where the surname "Robehod" was applied to a man apparently because he had been outlawed.<ref>D. Crook ''English Historical Review'' XCIX (1984) pp. 530–34; discussed in Dobson and Taylor, pp. xi–xxii.</ref> This could suggest two main possibilities: either that an early form of the Robin Hood legend was already well established in the mid-13th century; or alternatively that the name "Robin Hood" preceded the outlaw hero that we know; so that the "Robin Hood" of legend was so called because that was seen as an appropriate name for an outlaw.