Walter de Milemete
Illustration — Earliest picture of a European cannon, De nobilitatibus, sapientiis et prudentiis regum, Walter de Milemete, 1326 Walter de Milemete was an English scholar who in his early twenties was commissioned by Queen Isabella of France to write a treatise on kingship for her son, the young prince Edward, later king Edward III of England called De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum in 1326. The Treatise includes images of siege weapons and what is probably the first illustration of a firearm: a pot-de-fer. One of the marginal border illustrations in the Milemete Treatise shows a soldier firing a large vase-shaped cannon, the arrow-shaped projectile is seen projecting from the cannon which is pointed at a fortification.
Walter de Milemete
Walter de Milemete · De Nobilitatibus Sapientii Et Prudentiis Regum Manuscript, Christ Church MS 92 fol. 70v [1] · Public domain
- Born
- 1400
- Died
- 1373
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- designer
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Earliest picture of a European cannon, De nobilitatibus, sapientiis et prudentiis regum, Walter de Milemete, 1326 Walter de Milemete was an English scholar who in his early twenties was commissioned by Queen Isabella of France to write a treatise on kingship for her son, the young prince Edward, later king Edward III of England called De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum in 1326. The Treatise includes images of siege weapons and what is probably the first illustration of a firearm: a pot-de-fer. One of the marginal border illustrations in the Milemete Treatise shows a soldier firing a large vase-shaped cannon, the arrow-shaped projectile is seen projecting from the cannon which is pointed at a fortification.
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Born in 1400, died in 1373.
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- 1.M.A. Michael. 'The iconography of kingship in the Walter of Milemete treatise'. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 57 (1994), 35-47.
- 2.C.J. Nederman, Political thought in early fourteenth-century England : treatises by Walter of Milemete, William of Pagula, and William of Ockham, Turnhout, 2002.
- 3.Anne Curry, in The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 includes a drawing from a book of instruction for Edward III of England which "may predate slightly [Milimete's illustration]"
- 4.Walter de Milemet from Science and Its Times (2006)
- 5.Montague Rhodes James, ed., The Treatise of Walter de Milemete, 1913, p. 140, cited in Robert Douglas Smith, The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477, p. 10
- 6.Rogers, Clifford J., Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years' War, in The Military Revolution Debate, p. 65.
- 7.Giles Morgan (2003), St George: Knight, Martyr, Patron Saint and Dragonslayer. Chartwell Books
- 8.Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War, Richard Hallion, pages 9-10
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