List of medieval weapons

This is a list of weapons that were used during the medieval period.

Handheld weapons

Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight.

Arming sword
Dagger
Estoc
Falchion
Katana
Knife
Longsword
Messer
Rapier
Sabre or saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
Shortsword
Ulfberht (Frankish)
Scythe
Scimitar

Polearms are weapons in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.

Ballista
Battering ram
Bombards
- Bombard
- Byzantine bombard (Greek)
- Dardanelles bombard (Turkish)
- Dulle Griet
- Faule Grete
- Faule Mette
- Grose Bochse
- Mons Meg
- Orban bombard
- Pumhart von Steyr
Cannons
- Abus
- Basilisk
- Byzantine fire tube^[1]
- Cannon
- Cetbang
- Chongtong
- Culverin
- Ekor lotong
- Falconet
- Fauconneau
- Hu Dun Pao cannon
- Korean cannon
- Lantaka
- Lela
- Pierrier a boite
- Pot de fer
- Prangi
- Saker
- Tarasnice
- Veuglaire
- Wankou Chong
- Xanadu cannon
- Xi Xia bronze cannon
Mortar
Organ gun
Petrary weapons
- Catapult
- Hu Dun Pao trebuchet
- Mangonel
- Onager
- Trebuchet
Rocket powered weapons
- Huo Che rocket arrow launcher
- Hwacha rocket arrow launcher
Siege tower

^ ^a ^b Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 12-13, Greece, 2002.