Taking a castle by siege was never as easy as rolling up your machines when the need arose. When the forces of England’s King Edward I encircled Scotland’s Stirling Castle in 1304, he ordered that thirteen trebuchets be built. Hauling in the supplies and building the huge machine took months, while all the while the besieged Scottish warriors watched and dreaded what was to come.
As the machines were finished, they were christened with names such as Kyngstone, Belfry, Segrave, Toulemonde, Gloucester, and Lincoln. Edward called the biggest of all “Loup–de-guerre,” which is French for “wolf of war”. A French name for an English king’s war engine is…
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