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Revision as of 13:00, 30 July 2005 by J heisenberg (talk | contribs) (dates & cats)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Pierre Cauchon (1371, Reims - December 18th 1442, Rouen) was bishop of Beauvais, France, and president of the ecclesiastic court that convicted Joan of Arc at Rouen in 1431.
His ferocious devotion to the English made an impartial trial unachievable. Cauchon's course of action was renounced by the church in the rehabilitation trial of Joan (1456).
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