Many people know of the romantic tale of Robin Hood and Maid Mariam but before Mariam and before Robin Hood became a legend, he was a solider, a hero at war, a wealthy lord, and he was not chaste. He had known women before the love of his life, and one of the consorts of his past had a child, unknown to him. She knew nothing of her father, and the truth of her upbrigning, and spent most of her life living on her own on the streets where she became a thief to survivie.