I get that, it's like a Cossack. Death in every periphery, and always seconds away. As for Robin Hood, he was assuredly real. Just like Jesus Malverde, Black Caesar and Sam Hall. Every time a character like this appears in history, it is said that he probably didn't exist.

That's how you know they did, because in those days there was the recordkeeping of literacy, and that of illiteracy. Literacy had royal scribes and records, illiteracy had legends and tales.

At some point, it is only reasonable to recognise this pattern.