Warwolf
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For".
The Warwolf, also known as the Loup-de-Guerre or Ludgar,[1] is believed to have been the largest trebuchet ever made.[2] It was created in Scotland by order of Edward I of England, during the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304, as part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. A contemporary chronicle refers to it as une engine orrible.[3]
Warwolf at Stirling
When disassembled, the weapon would fill 30 wagons in parts.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It reportedly took five master carpenters and forty-nine other labourers at least three months to complete.[4]
The Flores Historiarum claims that the Warwolf sent a single stone through two of the castle's walls in the course of the siege, "like an arrow flying through cloth".[5] Other sources, however, report that the weapon was only finished after the Scots had surrendered.[4] Edward decided to use it anyway, refusing to let anyone enter or leave the castle until it had been tested.[6]
In the original records
Some of the original parchment rolls of the accounts of King Edward survive. Two references to the Warwolf in Latin read:
Another payment refers to a watchman; Reginald the Janitor was paid wages for guarding the Warwolf's beams for forty nights in June and July 1304.[7]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".