Man of Honour
Actually, they used windmills. If you go to Holland, just outside Amsterdam is a historical museum with a group of windmills that were used to power various medieval technologies and one of them is making planks from raw lumber.
I thought sawmills were late medieval at the earliest, but I was wrong.
Water would have been more common than air as a power source for mills in many places, of course. Rivers flow all the time and the flow can be controlled using artificial channels.
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