Justiciar of North Wales

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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 created by Edward I of England out of the Kingdom of Gwynedd under the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. He was responsible for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merioneth. The criminal law administered was English, but in other matters Welsh law was allowed to continue.^[1]

[edit] List of Justiciars

• Otton de Grandson, 1284–1294
• Robert Tibetot, 1295–1301
• Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, 1334–1352
• Arundel sold the office to Edward the Black Prince in 1352
• John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp 1385–1388
• Henry Percy 1399?–1403?

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