• Justiciar is the English form of the medieval Latin term justiciarius or justitiarius (meaning "judge" or "justice"). The Chief Justiciar was the king's...
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    Simon de Montfort during the reign of Henry III. He served briefly as Justiciar of England in 1260 and as Constable of the Tower of London. Despenser...
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  • Hugh Bigod (c. 1211 – 1266) was Justiciar of England from 1258 to 1260. He was a younger son of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk. In 1258 the Provisions...
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  • Richard the Justiciar (858–921), also known as Richard of Autun, was count of Autun from 880 and the first margrave and duke of Burgundy. He attained...
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  • The Justiciar of Galloway was an important legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland. The Justiciars of Galloway were responsible for the administration...
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  • The Justiciar of South Wales, sometimes referred to as the Justiciar of West Wales was a royal official of the Principality of Wales during the medieval...
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  • the River Forth and River Clyde. The other Justiciar positions were the Justiciar of Lothian and the Justiciar of Galloway. The institution has some Anglo-Norman...
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    Peter des Roches (category Justiciars of England)
    Archbishop of Canterbury despite Papal warning. In 1213 Peter was made Chief Justiciar in succession to Geoffrey Fitz Peter. This promotion was justified by...
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    William de Longchamp (died 1197) was a medieval Lord Chancellor, Chief Justiciar, and Bishop of Ely in England. Born to a humble family in Normandy, he...
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    Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (category Justiciars of England)
    May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar of England (1215–1232) and Justiciar of Ireland (1232) during the reigns of King John and...
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  • Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex (category Justiciars of England)
    principal advisor to Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, who, as Chief Justiciar, was one of the regents during the king's absence. Late in 1189, Geoffrey's...
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  • Justiciar of Lothian (in Norman-Latin, Justiciarus Laudonie) was an important legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland. The Justiciars of...
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    A lawspeaker or lawman (Swedish: lagman, Old Swedish: laghmaþer or laghman, Danish: lovsigemand, Norwegian: lagmann, Icelandic: lög(sögu)maður [ˈlœɣ(ˌsœːɣʏ)ˌmaːðʏr̥]...
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  • The Justiciar of North Wales was a legal office concerned with the government of the three counties in north-west Wales during the medieval period. Justiciar...
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  • Puiset (c. 1125 – 3 March 1195) was a medieval Bishop of Durham and Chief Justiciar of England under King Richard I. He was the nephew of King Stephen of...
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  • Sir Andrew Moray, Lord of Petty (died 8 April 1298) was Justiciar of Scotia. Andrew Moray was the younger son of Sir Walter de Moray, and a daughter of...
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    Roger of Salisbury (category Justiciars of England)
    England after the King, and was in office, if not in title, justiciar. He was never called Justiciar during Henry's reign. In 1106 Henry defeated and captured...
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  • Hugh the Black Duke of Burgundy Reign 923–952 Died 952 Noble family Bivinids Father Richard the Justiciar Mother Adelaide of Auxerre...
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  • (Finnish), (other plausible translations are Lord High Steward or Lord High Justiciar) is a Danish and Swedish supreme state official, with at least a connotation...
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  • Ranulf de Glanvill (category Justiciars of England)
    Glanvill (alias Glanvil, Glanville, Granville, etc., died 1190) was Chief Justiciar of England during the reign of King Henry II (1154–89) and was the probable...
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    seizing power. Richard left political authority in England—the post of justiciar—jointly in the hands of Bishop Hugh de Puiset and William de Mandeville...
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  • became the magnus Judex, which arguably developed into the office of Justiciar, an office which survives to this day in that of Lord Justice General...
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  • the order of precedence was: lieutenant 🢡 justiciar 🢡 custos 🢡 deputy (lieutenant) 🢡 deputy justiciar. The title "Deputy", and later "Lord Deputy"...
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  • William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex (category Justiciars of England)
    founded by his Mandeville ancestors. He was succeeded as chief justiciar by his fellow justiciar Hugh de Puiset and the Bishop of Ely, William Longchamp. The...
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    eldest son of the sometime Justiciar Hugh Despenser (d. 1265), son of Sir Hugh le Despenser I (above). The sometime Justiciar was summoned in 1264 to Simon...
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  • Dundonald (died 1246) was 3rd hereditary High Steward of Scotland and Justiciar of Scotia. He was the eldest son of Alan fitz Walter, 2nd High Steward...
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    Walter de Coutances (category Justiciars of England)
    archbishop back to England to mediate between William Longchamp, the justiciar whom Richard had left in charge of the kingdom, and Prince John, Richard's...
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  • over a century later by the French crown, their suzerain. Richard the Justiciar (880–921) Rudolph (921–923), then King of the Franks Hugh the Black (923–952)...
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    Butler to his old position as Governor. In 1389 Richard II appointed him Justiciar of Ireland, a post he held until 1391. He was heavily involved in Richard's...
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  • Norman nobleman Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104–1168), Justiciar of England, 1155–1168 Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (died...
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