Fan Casting Richard at the Lee in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

A ruined noble and the face of the dispossessed gentry. His family was brought to the brink of collapse after he mortgaged his estate to the Bishop of Hereford to save his son, who had been imprisoned for a tragic, accidental killing. No longer a man of the sword, Richard represents the systemic bankruptcy used by the state to hollow out the traditional nobility. After Robin provides the gold to pay off the debt and rescue his son’s future, Richard becomes the insurgency's most vital aristocratic ally, offering the rebels a legitimate sanctuary and political counsel that the Sheriff's law cannot easily touch.