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That Queyntyly Engynours Made

Margaret Johannsen · October 18, 2026

Around 1300 an English poet put Richard the Lionheart on crusade in rhyming couplets. In Richard Coer de Lyon the king’s army raises a siege tower, and the poem says of it: “A tour ful strong, That queyntyly engynours made.” […]

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That Queyntyly Engynours Made