
Also known as lance spear, lance weapon
thumb|300px|Normans|Norman cavalry attacks the Anglo-Saxon [[shield wall at the Battle of Hastings as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The "lances" depicted here are held with a one-handed over-the-head grip, and so their use is not the same as the "lances" of the later medieval period, when they were fitted with a "grapper" designed to engage a lance rest attached to the wielder's plate armour and used couched in the charge.]]
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- pole weapon
- Image
- Clevelandart 1964.357.j.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lances
- different from
- Kopie
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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