Medieval Weaponry

Can kill, puncture, wound, hurt, or anything else. All weapons

From the Middle Ages were looked upon as frightening and crucial

Tools to kill. From a small dagger to a large cannon; all weapons

A lot, in fact most of the weapons were used for siege and

Defense against castles. Castles were the most integral part of the

Middle Ages. They held the king, the servants and anyone else

Important. If you wanted land or money, a castle was the perfect

Movable Towers were just one thing used to lay siege on

These castles. Not necessarily a weapon itself, it held

Knights and (or) peasants carried many weapons depending

On what specialty they had. Some carried bows-and-arrows, others

Maces, some swords, some knifes, etc.

A mace was a metal ball with metal spikes welded on the

Ball. A chain was attached to a wood stick onto the ball. The

Other siege weapons included the ballista, a HUGE

Crossbow- like slingshot that could send a huge tree trunk 3 football fields

Long. The ballasta was manly for breakin

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The belfry could not be hidden, for it were multiple stories high. "Neither corps obeyed the church and so the crossbow continued to go against God's will. These fortification were called castles, and they were so well defended that some historians have called it "the most formidable weapon of medieval warfare" (Hull 1). Richard the Lionhearted's stronghold, the Chateau-Gaillard, which was built in only a year along the Seine River, was sacked on March 6, 1204 by blockade. The weapons of archery were the short and long bows, and the most fearsome weapon known before the discovery of gunpowder: the crossbow. The axe was large and formidable and had no specific types of strikes as the sword did.

"The purpose of this short, powerful bow was to give the missile greater initial speed and thus to increase the range of the shot and its power of penetration. It was not possible, however, to obtain increased tension when drawing the bow merely by hand. With the level method, an archer could load the crossbow by kneeling, which did not provide such an obvious target for the enemy. Yet another common tactic in the siege was undermining. The band did not work; crossbows continued to knock noblemen off their steeds with great regularity. However, the purposes of such subterranean activity were not for passage, but to create instability in the towers and in the end cause their disintegration. In this form of assault, the attacking party did not have to approach the castle, as was required in a storm, the second way to attack a castle.

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