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As justiciar, archbishop of Canterbury, and papal legate Hubert Walter stood for harmonious co-operation between king and Church.
In Scotland the justiciar was the supreme law officer until replaced in the 15th cent. by the lord justice general.
Theobald was a brother of Hubert Walter, the future archbishop of Canterbury and justiciar and chancellor of England.
In Scotland the title of justiciar was borne, under the earlier kings, by two high officials, one having his jurisdiction to the north, the other to the south of the Forth.
In Ireland the justiciar was the king's chief representative in the 13th cent. until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.
But how aware of this were the archers and foot soldiers from Cheshire, where Hotspur had been royal justiciar, and a commander of the King's army against the rebel Welsh?
A justiciar was appointed by the king to stand in his absence when he was on the continent.
Mandeville immediately died, and Longchamp took over as joint justiciar with Puiset, which would prove a less than satisfactory partnership.
Longchamp, who had left England after Walter's intervention, now returned, and argued that he had been wrongly removed as justiciar.
The criminal law was much the same, with felonies such as murder, larceny and robbery prosecuted before the justiciar, as in England.
Fife relieved Buchan of his offices of lieutenant of the north and justiciar north of the Forth.
The tower contained grand lodgings, and was probably built for Sir Otton de Grandson, the first justiciar of Wales.
Henry abandoned this policy, leaving the post of justiciar vacant and turning the position of chancellor into a more junior role.
Hubert de Burgh, Henry's justiciar, set sail to intercept it, resulting in the Battle of Sandwich.
By the time of King Malcolm II, the great protonotary was extinct and the great justiciar was replaced by the lord justice general.
Burgh became the dominant figure in the government upon the death of the regent, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, in 1219, and in 1228 he was created justiciar for life.
He was finally defeated in 1318 by Edward II's Irish justiciar, Edmund Butler, at the Battle of Faughart, and Edward Bruce's severed head was sent back to the King.
Later, he took over John's Lordship of Ireland and replaced his justiciar.
The Norman kings were often overseas and appointed a Justiciar, Regent or Lieutenant to represent them in the kingdom, as the Sheriff did in the shire.
The legal responsibility for this area lay in the hands of the Justiciar of South Wales based at Carmarthen.
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Your lordship, being the justiciar, speaks with knowledge of what is to come to me.
Flambard was appointed justiciar by the second William, and in his hands the office became permanent.
The justiciar was now the king's chief minister, acting in his name whether he was present or absent.
Its president was the justiciar, who was the king's representative.
From 1228 to 1232 he held the high office of justiciar of Ireland.
During his absence Hubert visited York both as legate and as justiciar.
He received a legatine commission, and became sole justiciar.
That is why the archbishop and the justiciar accompanied the expedition.
He traces his descent from the justiciar of the Norman kings.
You mind last year when he came down to Malwood, with his inner marshal and his outer marshal, his justiciar, his seneschal, and his four and twenty guardsmen.
In 1198 appears a letter from the Warden of the stannaries to the Justiciar.
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