The Justiciar of Lothian (in Norman-Latin, Justiciarus Laudonie) was an important legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland. The Norman language is a Romance language, one of the Oïl languages. ... Medieval Latin refers to the Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church. ... Scottish legal institutions in the High Middle Ages are, for the purposes of this article, the informal and formal systems which governed and helped to manage Scottish society between the years 900 and 1288, a period roughly corresponding with the general European era usually called the High Middle Ages. ... Dunnottar Castle in the Mearns occupies one of the best defensive locations in Great Britain. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one strikes me with impunity) Capital Edinburgh¹ Language(s) Gaelic, Scots Government Monarchy King/Queen  - 843-860 Kenneth I  - 1587–1625 James VI  - 1702-1714 Anne Legislature Parliament of Scotland History  - United 843  - Union of the Crowns March 24, 1603  - Act of Union...

The Justiciars of Lothian were responsible for the administration of royal justice in the province of Lothian, a much larger area than the modern Lothian, covering Scotland south of the Forth and Clyde, outwith Galloway, which had its own Justiciar of Galloway. The institution may date to the reign of King David I (died 1153), whose godson David Olifard was the first attested Justiciar. The Justiciars of Lothian, although not magnates of the stature of the typical Justiciar of Scotia, were significant landowners and not creatures of the kings. Lothian (Lowden in Scots, Lodainn in Gaelic) forms a traditional region of Scotland, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills. ... The River Forth meanders over fertile farmlands near Stirling The River Forth, 47 km (29 miles) long, is the major river draining the eastern part of the central belt of Scotland. ... The River Clyde, looking eastwards upstream, as it passes beneath the Kingston Bridge in Central Glasgow. ... Galloway (Scottish Gaelic, Gall-ghaidhealaibh or Gallobha, Lowland Scots Gallowa) today refers to the former counties of Wigtownshire and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in southwest Scotland, but has fluctuated greatly in size over history. ... King David I (or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim; also known as Saint David I or David I the Saint) (1084 – May 24, 1153), was King of Scotland from 1124 until his death, and the youngest son of Malcolm Canmore and of Saint Margaret (sister of Edgar Ætheling). ... The Godson series, or Dragon chip for its origin, is an architecture of general CPUs developed at CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences). ... The Justiciar of Scotia (in Norman-Latin, Justiciarus Scotie) was the most senior legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland. ...

List of Justiciars of Lothian, to 1306

• David Olifard (c.1165–c.1170)
• Robert Avenel, Richard Comyn, Robert de Quinci, Geoffrey de Melville (c.1170xc.1178)
• Walter Olifard the Elder (c.1178–c.1188)
• Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar (d. 1232) (c.1195–c.1205)
• David Lindsay the Elder and Gervase Avenel (d. 1219) (c.1206–c.1215?)
• Alexander, Sheriff of Stirling and Walter Lindsay, Sheriff of Berwick (c.1206–c.1215?)
• Walter Olifard the Younger (d. 1242) (c.1215–1242)
• David Lindsay the Younger (c. 1241–1249x1251)
• David Graham, deputy (1248, 1253)
• Thomas de Normanville (c.1251–1253x1255)
• Walter Murray of Bothwell (1255x1257)
• Hugh Barclay (1258)
• Thomas de Normanville and Stephen Fleming (1259)
• Stephen Fleming (c.1260–1262?)
• Hugh Barclay (c.1261–c.1279)
• William de Soules (d. 1292x1293) (c.1279–1292x1293)
• Geoffrey de Moubray (d. 1300) (1294–1296?)
• Adam of Gordon and John de Lisle (1305–1306)

References

• Barrow, G.W.S., "The Judex", in Barrow (ed.), The Kingdom of the Scots, (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 57-67. ISBN 0-7486-1803-1
• Barow, G.W.S. "The Justiciar", in Barrow (ed.), op.cit., pp. 68–111.

Geoffrey W.S. Barrow is a Scottish historian and academic. ...

See also

• Scotland in the High Middle Ages
• Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages