Medieval warfare Medieval warfare The first Battle of Meloria took place on May 3 1241 near Meloria islet, off Livorno, Italy. It was fought between the fleet of the emperor Frederick II, surnamed Stupor Mundi, in alliance with Pisa, against a Genoese squadron bringing a number of English, French and Spanish prelates to attend the council summoned to meet at the Lateran by Pope Gregory IX. Three Genoese galleys were sunk and twenty-two taken. Several of the prelates perished, and many were carried prisoners to the camp of the emperor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Meloria (1241)"
The Battle of Meloria was fought on Sunday August 6 1284 near the Meloria islet, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was a typical medieval sea-fight, and accomplished the ruin of Pisa as a naval power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Meloria (1284)"
Unbeknownst to the Scots, however, the English had already arrayed troops for just such an invasion. Once the Scots invaded, an army was quickly mobilized in Richmond under the supervision of William Zouche, the Archbishop of York. It was not, however, a large army and what men were available were split into two separate groups: 3,000-4,000 men from Cumberland, Northumberland, and Lancashire, with another 3,000 Yorkshiremen en route. Given the demands of the Siege of Calais, no further men could be summoned for the defense of Northern England. Worse still, on October 14 (while the Scots were sacking Hexham), the Archbishop decided not to wait for the Yorkshiremen and made haste toward Barnard Castle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Neville's Cross"
The Burgundy Wars were a conflict between the House of Habsburg and the Valois Dynasty, in which the Old Swiss Confederacy got involved and would play a decisive role. Open war broke out in 1474, and in the following years, the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was defeated thrice on the battlefield and killed in the Battle of Nancy. Burgundy then became part of France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burgundy Wars"
The Byzantine Army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine Navy. A direct descendant of the legions of the old Roman Empire, the Byzantine Army maintained a similar level of discipline, strategic prowess and organization. For much of its history in fact, the Byzantine Army was the most powerful and effective military force in all of Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Byzantine army"
De Re Militari ( Latin "On military matters") was a treatise of late Roman warfare that became a military guide in the middle ages. ...more on Wikipedia about "De Re Militari"
Drungarios is a Military rank of the Byzantine Army. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drungarios"
The English longbow, also called the Welsh longbow, was a powerful type of longbow (a tall bow for archery) about 2.0 m (6 ft 6 in) long used by the English and Welsh during the Middle Ages both for hunting and as a weapon of war. Longbows were most devastatingly put to use during the Hundred Years War against the French. ...more on Wikipedia about "English longbow"
Georg von Frundsberg ( 1473– 1528) was a German Knight and landowner. He was born at Mindelheim on September 24, 1473. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georg von Frundsberg"
Götz von Berlichingen (Also Gottfried von Berlichingen) was a German knight (Deutscher Ritter), Soldier of Fortune and robber baron. He was born to a noble family at the Schloss Jagsthausen ( Castle of Jagsthausen) in Württemberg. He owned several other castles, including the Schloss Hornberg, located near the Neckar River in what is now Baden-Württemberg. Berlichingen was made famous by 18th Century scholar Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who wrote a play based on his life. In World War II, the German Waffen-SS had a formation named after him, the 17.SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Götz von Berlichingen"
The term great sword refers to any of a number of large swords used in medieval Europe, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Great sword"
The hauberk is a shirt of mail or leather (weighing about 14 kg for the mail). There are slits in the front and back below the waist (so the wearer could straddle a horse and ride), and it almost always had sleeves. The sleeves would extend to mid-way down the forearm. These shirts were put on over the head. Chain mail was made of interlocking metal rings and was flexible like cloth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hauberk"
The Hundred Years' War is the name modern historians have given to what was actually a series of related conflicts, fought over a 116-year period, between the Kingdom of England and France; beginning in 1337, and ending in 1453. Historians group these conflicts under the same label, for convenience. The war was primarily fought in France; and though in retrospect, it has the feeling of a French civil war as much as an international conflict, the historian Philippe de Vries suggested that it had "taken place at a more or less provincial level." Fernand Braudel, quoting him, adds that "England acted as a province (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit," that was "both battlefield and prize" (Braudel 1984 p. 353). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hundred Years' War"
The term knight from the High Middle Ages referred to armed equestrians of royalty and high nobility, in particular heavy cavalry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Knight"
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A mangonel was a type of medieval catapult or siege engine used in the medieval period to throw projectiles at a castle's walls. While particularly accurate, mangonels were capable of shooting projectiles up to 400 meters, or 1,300 feet, though still not as accurate or ranged as a trebuchet (which was introduced later, shortly before the discovery and widespread usage of gunpowder). The mangonel threw projectiles on a lower trajectory than the trebuchet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mangonel"
Medieval warfare is the warfare of the European Middle Ages. Technological, cultural, and social developments had forced a dramatic transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of cavalry and artillery. Similar patterns of warfare existed in other parts of the world. In China around the fifth century armies moved from massed infantry to cavalry based forces, copying the steppe nomads. The Middle East and North Africa used similar, if often more advanced, technologies than Europe. In Japan the Medieval warfare period is considered by many to have stretched into the nineteenth century. In Africa along the Sahel and Sudan states like the Kingdom of Sennar and Fulani Empire employed Medieval tactics and weapons well after they had been supplanted in Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Medieval warfare"
Plate armour is personal armour made from large metal plates, worn on the chest and sometimes the entire body. Plate armour protecting the chest and the lower limbs was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but it fell into disuse after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Single plates of metal armour were again used from the late 13th century on, to protect joints and shins, and these were worn over full chainmail. By the end of the 14th century, larger and complete full plates of armour had been developed. During the early 1500s the helmet and neckguard design was reformed to produce the so-called Nürnberg armours, many of them masterpieces of workmanship and design. European leaders in armouring techniques were northern Italians and southern Germans. This led to the styles of Milanese from Milan, and Gothic from Germany. Eventually England produced armour in Greenwich which equalled the masters of Europe, and they developed their own unique style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Plate armour"
The birth of the Sassanid Army dates back to Ardashir I rise to the throne, when he planned a clear military aimed at the revival of the Persian Empire by forming a standing army which was under his personal command and its officers were separate from satraps and local princes and nobility. He restored the Achaemenid military organizations, retained Parthian cavalry, and employed new types of armour and siege warfares. This was a beginning for an army which served he and his successors for over 400 years making Sassanids, along with the Byzantine Empire, the superpowers of their time and defending Persia (also called Iran or Eranshahr) from east against central asiatic nomads like Hephthalites, Turks and from west against the Roman Empire and later on the Byzantine Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sassanid Army"
The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed. In all, eighteen battles were fought in what is now northwestern Germany. They resulted in the incorporation of Saxony into the Frankish realm and their conversion from paganism to Christianity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saxon Wars"
In medieval times a squire was a man-at-arms in the service of a knight, often as his apprentice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Squire"
The Varangians ( Russian: Variags, Варяги) were Scandinavians who travelled eastwards, mainly from Jutland and Sweden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Varangian"
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