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The Goedendag is a Normal mace in Diablo III. It requires character level 60 to be used.

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  • The Goedendag is a Normal mace in Diablo III. It requires character level 60 to be used.
  • The goedendag (also rendered godendac, godendard, godendart, and sometimes conflated with the related plançon) was a weapon originally used by the militias of Medieval Flanders in the 14th century. It was essentially a combination of a club with a spear. Its body was a wooden staff roughly five feet (150 cm) long with a diameter of roughly four inches (10 cm). It was wider at one end, and at this end a sharp metal spike was inserted by a tang.
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  • The goedendag (also rendered godendac, godendard, godendart, and sometimes conflated with the related plançon) was a weapon originally used by the militias of Medieval Flanders in the 14th century. It was essentially a combination of a club with a spear. Its body was a wooden staff roughly five feet (150 cm) long with a diameter of roughly four inches (10 cm). It was wider at one end, and at this end a sharp metal spike was inserted by a tang. The name "goedendag" derives from Dutch, usually taken in English sources to have meant "good day", with reference to the revolt of Bruges in 1302, at which the guildsmen of Bruges purportedly took over the city by greeting people in the streets, and murdering anyone who answered with a French accent. This derivation of the name may however be spurious: the name is found only once, in a French account from shortly after the Battle of Courtrai. The Flemings themselves referred to the weapon as a spiked staff (gepinde staf). The weapon was used to great effect by the guildsmen of Flanders' wealthy cities against the French knights during the Guldensporenslag, the Battle of Courtrai or Battle of the Golden Spurs, near Kortrijk (Courtrai) on 11 July 1302. (The date is still marked as the celebration of Flanders', Brabant's and Antwerp's independence and Flanders' national celebration day.) It is depicted being used against the French knights in the Battle of Courtrai in the carvings on the Courtrai Chest, a 14th-century wooden chest (discovered c1905 on a farm owned by New College, Oxford, England, and now to be seen in the Ashmolean Museum.) There is also a now faded fresco from the Leugemeete in Ghent.
  • The Goedendag is a Normal mace in Diablo III. It requires character level 60 to be used.
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