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Meet Maid Marian. She is Robin Hood's true love and truly a great woman. Local legend says Robin and Marian were married in St. Mary's church in the village of Edwinstowe. Click here to see a picture of the church. Marian's a late-comer to the legend, and she doesn't appear in many of the traditional ballads. No matter.
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In the 1973 Disney animated version of Robin Hood, Maid Marian is an anthropomorphic vixen (female fox) voiced by Monica Evans, with Nancy Adams doing her singing voice. In the 1976 film Robin and Marian, Lady Marian is played by Audrey Hepburn.
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The love interest to Robin of Loxley Marian was an interesting character with a varied past and many versions of her tale, sometimes a sheltered noblewoman but originally a skilled fighter capable defeating her lover at the end of a long sword fight. She swore off marrying him until he had gained a King's pardon.
Marian was born the daughter of nobility in some ballads but originally she had a more humble origin as a shepherdess. Sometimes she and Robin knew each other since childhood but other tales have them meet as adults. When she is portrayed as a noble Richard at the Lee is sometimes her father.
At what point Marian and Robin met is variable but her oath to marry her love, instead of a man of her family's choosing, is on the condition that he first be pardoned. Her most well known act was joining the Merry Men in the forest after disguising herself as a male page and defeating Robin in a duel in during which he was unaware of her identity....
Marian married Robin immediately following his pardon by the King just as she had promised to do while he was living as an outlaw and was widowed many years later when Robin was murdered by his cousin. She is not said to have left him when he left the king's service and returned to living like an outlaw in the woods.
The name of Robin's alternate wife Clorinda from the circa 1660s ballad Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage, which takes many of its elements from outside the Robin hood tradition, is sometimes used by Marian as an alias.
Ballads:•Robin Hood and Maid Marian
•Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
•Robin Hood's Golden Prize
•Maid Marian
Plays:•1641 The Sad Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood by Ben Jonson (incomplete, first published 4 years after author's death)
Literature:•1822 Maid Marian (1822) by Thomas Love Peacock
When Robin returns from crusade with two Arabs, Suleiman and his dancing-girl daughter, Marian begins to be jealous of Leila with Robin, but she vanishes to an orientalist fate as Prince John's mistress. In later action Marian is taken prisoner and rescued when Robin shoots a silken ladder into her cell.
Mar 10, 2024 · Relegated to a dainty, chaste and highborn maiden, she became defined almost completely by her relationship to Robin. Their tale became a respectable Victorian love story, complete with a happy ending when the pair were married in St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe, by King Richard Lionheart.
Jun 19, 2014 · The love between Robin Hood and Maid Marian is embedded among the larger picture, making it more intriguing. The ballad, the legend, the folktale, all ends with only one true love for Robin Hood, and that is what readers have always kept in their hearts; the love between himself and Maid Marian.]]>. Tags: Love Maid Marian Nottingham Queen ...
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Maid Marian is a vixen and one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Little John) of Disney's 1973 animated feature film Robin Hood. She is the love interest and later wife of the title character. She based on the character from the Robin Hood legend of the same name.
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