Editing Mace (bludgeon) (section)

==Heraldic use==
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Like many weapons from feudal times, maces have been used in heraldic blazons as either a [[Charge (heraldry)|charge]] on a shield or other item, or as external ornamentation.

Thus, in France:
* the city of [[Cognac, France|Cognac]] (in the [[Charente]] département): ''Argent on a horse sable harnessed or a man proper vested azure with a cloak gules holding a mace, on a chief France modern''
* the city of [[Colmar]] (in [[Haut-Rhin]]): ''per pale gules and vert a mace per bend sinister or.'' Three maces, probably a canting device (''Kolben'' means mace in German, cfr. ''Columbaria'' the Latin name of the city) appear on a 1214 seal. The arms in a 15th-century stained-glass window show the mace per bend on argent.
* the duke of [[Seigneurs and Dukes of Retz|Retz]] (a [[pairie]] created in 1581 for Albert de Gondy) had ''Or two maces or clubs per saltire sable, bound gules''
* the [[Garde des sceaux]] ('keeper of the seals', still the formal title of the French Republic's Minister of Justice) places behind the shield, two silver and gilded maces in saltire, and the achievement is surmounted by a mortier (magistrate's hat)