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  1. French. Pierre Cauchon (1371 – 18 December 1442) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Beauvais from 1420 to 1432. He was a strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War. He was the judge in the trial of Joan of Arc and played a key role in her execution.

    • 21 August 1420
    • Beauvais
  2. Died: Dec. 18, 1442, Rouen (aged 71) Pierre Cauchon (born 1371, near Reims, Fr.—died Dec. 18, 1442, Rouen) was a French bishop of Beauvais, an ecclesiastic memorable chiefly because he presided over the trial of Joan of Arc. Cauchon was educated at the University of Paris, of which he became rector in 1403.

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  4. 1371. Reims, Departement de la Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Death. 18 Dec 1442 (aged 70–71) Rouen, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. Burial. Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Lisieux. Lisieux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Add to Map. Memorial ID. 161051160. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 1.

    • Reims, Departement de la Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  5. Cauchon died abruptly of heart failure at the age of 71 on 15 December 1442 in Rouen. He was buried in the Saint-Pierre cathedral at the vault he patronized. Read More

    • Reims, Departement de la Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  6. He assisted at the council of Basel in 1435, and died suddenly on the 18th of December 1442. Excommunicated posthumously by Pope Calixtus IV., his body was exhumed and thrown in the common sewer.

  7. In 1439 and 1440 Pierre Cauchon was commissioned with several trips to Calais and to England to treat for peace between the two kingdoms, and concerning the deliverance of the duc d'Orléans. Pierre Cauchon died suddenly, while he was being shaved, at his fine hotel Saint-Cande, on December 18, 1442, at the height of his honors.

  8. The Trial of Joan of Arc. by Douglas O. Linder (2017) Bishop Pierre Cauchon questions Joan (painting by Paul Delaroche) THIS TRIAL SITE WILL BE CONSTRUCTED IN 2017. The story of Joan of Arc, the peasant girl whose religious visions altered the history of France, has been told often. And like so many stories in history, things do not end well ...

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