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Crossbowman
Sleeping Soldiers at the Empty Tomb, Saint Nicolas Church, Haguenau, France.
A larger image of the Crossbowman, Sleeping Soldiers at the Empty Tomb, Saint Nicolas Church, Haguenau, France.
ca. 1360 - 'soldiers at the Holy Sepulchre', Église Saint-Nicolas, Haguenau, dép. Bas-Rhin, France
Photos by Roel Renmans
Referenced as figure 115 in GERMAN INFANTRYMEN, MID-14th CENTURY in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 by Ian Heath:
The two specific figures depicted here are from sculptures of c.1345-50 at Strasbourg and c.1350-55 at Haguenau respectively. There is nothing particularly remarkable about their equipment, ... Though mail chausses had generally disappeared elsewhere by c.1350, they remained in occasional use in Germany right up until very late in the 14th century. In the original, 115 is shown cocking his crossbow by the cord-and-pulley method, in which a cord with a hook at one end was attached to a ring on the belt, an eye at the other end then being located on the hook visible below the crossbow tiller; the crossbow string was hooked to a pulley attached to the cord, the stirrup then being used in the usual way.