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Royal court official with a ceremonial or real mace
A mace bearer, or macebearer, is a person who carries a mace, either a real weapon or ceremonial.

As for ceremonial maces, which symbolise the power or status of a monarch, institution or high dignitary, the duty to carry them in procession or other formal occasions may either be occasional and vested in an office otherwise named, or give its name to the office, either as a sinecure or in conjunction with other duties (sometimes indeed as an alternative title, as with some university officers, e. g. at St Andrews, the Bedelis is the chief mace bearer and at Oxford the bedels). His main day to day duties may be rather that of a general assistant, like say a driver's. In the Anglo Saxon tradition, there usually is one post of mace bearer per mace, and rarely more than one mace in use at the same time per master, or only in specific different contexts. In French, the above mentioned title massier is nowadays used for a mere huissier (a lowly post, door keeper or usher) who occasionally carries a 'masse' when taking part in formal ceremonies, rather like a staff of office, as the mace is not given the same reverence as in the Anglo Saxon tradition, indeed there may be several ones carried at the same time by staff of the same master, without any symbolism or tradition concerning the individual maces. In Spain, the macero mentioned above evolved to become the symbol of civil authority, usually associated with extra royal institutions such as municipalities, local authorities, etc. When these institutions celebrate a formal ceremony, the macero will head any parade or surround the figures of authority. Similar to the French case, albeit they always wield a 'maza' (a mace), the mace itself does not bear the ceremonial reverence it does in the Anglo Saxon tradition. Typically, the maceros are dressed in characteristic 15th century garment, and wear a tabard with the coat of arms of the institution they represent. A swordbearer is similar to a mace bearer but carries a ceremonial sword rather than a ceremonial mace.