The shield is believed to have been used by the personal body guard of Henry VIII around 1544-1547. The gun shield was exactly what its name would suggest, it was a shield with a breech loading match lock pistol at its center with a small square window about the barrel as an observation port. While these weapons were not used regularly, they do provide an interesting window into medieval warfare and the advances in technology that were being made at that time. Listed here are ten strange and deadly weapons used in the medieval period spanning across hundreds of years and reaching across the globe.
However, the weapons that these knights wielded expanded far past that of an ordinary sword and shield. Long before modern warfare, there was a time of knights in shining armor atop equally armored horses fighting for the hand of a maiden or in pitched battle.
