Sentence examples for justiciar from inspiring English sources
noun
One who administers justice, particularly: A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland. A justice: a high-ranking judge. A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries. Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
Finally, there was Burgundy, to the south of Champagne (not to be confused with the old kingdom and the later imperial county of Burgundy), which first achieved princely identity under Richard the Justiciar (880 921).
Used by Henry III in 1232 to enable him to throw off the dominance of his great officers of state (the justiciar, the treasurer, and the chancellor), the power of the Wardrobe was attacked by rebellious barons in 1258 67 and again in 1311.
Hugh de Lacy was granted (c. March 1172) the lordship of Meath for the service of 50 knights and was left as constable of Dublin and justiciar when Henry returned to England in April 1172.
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.
A justiciar was appointed (for the first time since 1234) to oversee local administration, and the majority of sheriffs were replaced by knights holding land in the shires that they administered.
The 1st Earl's father, Robert (1279 1316), who was summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1309, was the son of Robert de Ufford, twice justiciar of Ireland in Edward I's reign.
After Richard's departure on crusade, he became joint justiciar with Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (March 1190).
After Henry stripped the powerful Hubert de Burgh, the last of the great justiciars, of his authority (July November 1232), Peter des Rivaux took over the machinery of government.
July 25, 1186 Leinster, Ireland Hugh de Lacy, 1st lord of Meath, (died July 25 , 1186 Durrow, Leinster, Ire.) one of the Anglo-Norman justiciars of Ireland who went to Ireland with England's King Henry II in 1171.
Hugh de Lacy, 1st lord of Meath, (died July 25 , 1186 Durrow, Leinster, Ire.), one of the Anglo-Norman justiciars of Ireland who went to Ireland with England's King Henry II in 1171.
In a subsequent post about the manifesto on Foreign Policy's Passport blog, Mr. Hounshell wrote: In it, "Berwick" declares himself a "Justiciar Knight Commander," a leading member of a "re-founded" Knights Templar group formed at an April 2002 meeting in London.
