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 until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.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. |