A vergobret was a magistrate in ancient Gaul who held the highest office in many Gallic cities, especially among the Aedui.
Julius Caesar discusses the role of the vergobret several times in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, referring to the office with the terms princeps civitatis, principatus, and magistratus.
[1] Elected every year under the aegis of the druids,[2] the vergobret had the right of life and death, and that of commanding the army in defensive action.
One of the rare archaeological traces of the vergobret came from the 1978 excavations of Dr. Allain in the zone of the temples to Argentomagus (Saint-Marcel, Indre).
Furthermore, an inscription in rock in the Gallo-Roman city of Augustoritum has been found, which is a sign of a yet incomplete Romanization: it cites a certain "Postumus, vergobret, son of Dumnorix" (the latter having no relation to the Aedui of the same name).