viguiern.

1744 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 June (1966) II. 331 We have a new Vice Legate... The Magistrate next to him in place is call'd the Viguier, who is chose every year by the Hotel de ville.

1898 H. L. Smith in H. Spender Through High Pyrenees iii. iii. 291 The President of the French Republic nominates a viguier with an unlimited tenure of office, and the Bishop of Urgel nominates another, who must be an Andorran, and who holds office for three years.

1922 Glasgow Herald 24 July 5/5 The chief of these is the supreme judicial authority, though the Viguiers—in theory at least—are also the heads of the militia.

1983 Whitaker's Almanack 793/1 The sovereignty of Andorra is vested in two ‘Co-Princes’, the President of the French Republic and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel... They are represented by Permanent Delegates of whom one is the French Prefect of the Pyrenees Orientales Department at Perpignan and the other is the Spanish Vicar-General of the Diocese of Urgel. They are in turn represented in Andorra la Vella by two resident ‘Viguiers’.., who have joint responsibility for law and order and overall administration policy, together with judicial powers as members of the Supreme Court.