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What is a justiciar?

What is a justiciar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) One who administers justice, particularly:
    1. (historical) A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
    2. (historical) A justice: a high-ranking judge.
    3. (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
    4. (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
  2. (theology) A justiciary: a believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
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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 until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.
A justiciar was appointed by the king to stand in his absence when he was on the continent.
Your lordship, being the justiciar, speaks with knowledge of what is to come to me.
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?
Fife relieved Buchan of his offices of lieutenant of the north and justiciar north of the Forth.
Theobald was a brother of Hubert Walter, the future archbishop of Canterbury and justiciar and chancellor of England.

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