What is the relationship between king Richard and Guy of Gisbourne??
Sir Guy of Gisborne (also spelled Gisburne, Gysborne or Gisborn) is a fictional character in the Robin Hood legends. In The Ballad of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne (Child Ballad 118), he hunts Robin for the Sheriff of Nottingham, but Robin kills him and cuts off his head. He is described so: There were they ware of a wight yemàn, [wight = sturdy] His body lean’d to a tree. A sword and a dagger he wore by his side, Of manye a man the bane; And he was clad in his capull-hyde [capull-hyde = horse-hide] Topp and tayll and mayne ‘I dwell by dale and downe,’ quoth hee, ‘And Robin to take I’me sworne; And when I am callèd by my right name I am Guy of good Gisborne.’ There is some evidence that he originally had an independent legendary tradition which became absorbed in the Robin Hood tradition. Although he has made many appearances in variants of the Robin Hood legends, his only constant is appearing as a villain. In Howard Pyle’s Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, he is a rude, coarse outlaw,
