PowerBoy, that’s exactly what I was going to say. Theoretically it might have been possible: while clerical celibacy was mandated a few decades before the reign of Richard I, it might have taken a while to be enforced in outlying places like the north of England.
Still, that’s a little involved for a comic strip. Let’s just assume that Friar Tuck is married to his vocation and that’s his widowed sister he’s graciously escorting.
PowerBoy, that’s exactly what I was going to say. Theoretically it might have been possible: while clerical celibacy was mandated a few decades before the reign of Richard I, it might have taken a while to be enforced in outlying places like the north of England.
Still, that’s a little involved for a comic strip. Let’s just assume that Friar Tuck is married to his vocation and that’s his widowed sister he’s graciously escorting.