And Bishop Odo during that little spat between Normans & Anglo Saxons...

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Bishop Odo using it certainly cast doubt over the attitude that the club was a low status weapon.
Rather the mace/club could actually be a status symbol of authority (like the royal scepter), when it was wielded by a person which had authority.
A low status warrior wielding a club would still be low status, not because he wielded a club, but because HE was low status.

A "ragged staff" with and iron band and spike like a goedendag: Egerton Genesis, BL Egerton MS 1894, 1350-1375, Norfolk -
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=...1894_f005r

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