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The first Speaker of the House, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania, approved the mace as the proper symbol of the Sergeant at Arms in carrying out the duties of this office. [2] The first mace was destroyed when the Capitol Building was burned on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812. A simple wooden mace was used in the interim. [3]
Some officials of the medieval Eastern Roman Empire carried maces for either practical or ceremonial purposes. Notable among the latter is the protoallagator, a military-judicial position that existed by about the 10th century A.D. and whose symbols of office were reported by the Palaiologan writer Pseudo-Kodinos in the 14th century to include a silver-gilt mace (matzouka).
The mace was made in England in 1938 and passed through several owners before being purchased by an art dealer. [5] Each day that the House is in session, the mace is placed in the House chamber by the sergeant-at-arms, Jay Pearson. [1] When not in use, the mace is on display in the old hall of the House of Delegates. [4]
Mace (bludgeon), a weapon with a heavy head on a solid shaft used to bludgeon opponents Flail (weapon), a spiked weapon on a chain, sometimes called a chain mace or mace-and-chain; Ceremonial mace, an ornamented mace used in civic ceremonies; Gada (mace), the blunt mace or club from India Kaumodaki, the gada (mace) of the Hindu god Vishnu
In the Ukrainian language, a булава (bulava) is a mace or club, in both the military and ceremonial senses.The bulava was one of the Ukrainian Cossack kleinody (клейноди - "jewels"): Bohdan Khmelnytsky bore a bulava as Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host (in office: 1648 to 1657).
Mace B was made in the reign of William III and Mary II in 1695, is 1.58 m (5.2 ft) long and weighs 11.82 kg (26.1 lb). [22] Top of a royal mace bearing the cypher of Charles II. The House of Commons mace, carried by the Serjeant-at-Arms, [23] is placed on brackets on top of the Table of the House in front of the Speaker.
It is derived from the word "mazza", the Italian word for mace. The mace (or mazza) was the primary weapon in Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries, and the area around Milan in northern Italy was a primary site of manufacture for the Italian mace that was most popular during this period.
When the mace was still in actual use as a weapon, it was deemed fit for close-protection, and hence a mace-bearer could be a bodyguard.. Thus in French and Dutch, a massier (armed with a masse d'armes 'weapon-mace') could be a member of a formally so-styled guard corps, as in the court of the Dukes of Brabant.