Cultural depictions of Richard I of England

Richard I of England has been depicted many times in romantic fiction and popular culture.

The Scots philosopher and chronicler John Mair was the first to associate Richard with the Robin Hood legends in his Historia majoris Britannae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae (1521).

However, Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe popularised Mair's linking of the Hood legends to Richard's reign, and it was taken up by later novelists and by cinema.

Typically Robin is depicted upholding justice in Richard's name against John and his officials during the king's imprisonment.

Richard appears in the novella about Robin Hood, Maid Marian (1822), by Thomas Love Peacock.