Warwolf

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.

[citation needed] 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".

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.