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CAUCHON, PIERRE (d. 1442)

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CAUCHON, See also:PIERRE (d. 1442) , See also:French See also:bishop, was See also:born near See also:Reims in the latter See also:half of the 14th See also:century. We find him See also:rector of the university of See also:Paris in See also:October 1397. In 1413 he joined the Burgundian See also:faction, and was exiled by the See also:parlement of Paris. But on the See also:triumph of his party this See also:decree was annulled, and See also:Philip the See also:Good, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, gave him a canonry at See also:Beauvais, sent him to the See also:council of See also:Constance, procured him the See also:post of maitre See also:des requetes in 1418, and finally in 1420 had him made bishop of Beauvais. But the See also:people were hostile to him, and he was driven from his bishopric in 1429; whereupon he attached himself to the See also:English See also:court, and in 1431 endeavoured to procure the surrender of Reims to the English, so that See also:Henry VI. might be crowned there. In this hefailed, and Henry was crowned in Paris on the 17th of See also:December 1431 by Henry See also:Beaufort, See also:cardinal bishop of See also:Winchester, assisted by the bishops of Beauvais and See also:Noyon. On the 24th of May 1430, See also:Joan of Arc having been taken prisoner at See also:Compiegne, within the limits of his See also:diocese, Cauchon acted as her accuser, and demanded the right of judging her. Joan was taken to See also:Rouen, whither Cauchon followed her, having been driven from Beauvais. He conducted the trial with marked partiality and malevolence, condemned the maid to imprisonment for See also:life, and then, under pressure from the populace and the English, had recourse to fresh perfidies, declared Joan a relapsed heretic, excommunicated her, and handed her over to the See also:secular See also:arm on the 3oth of May 1431. As, in consequence of this, it was impossible for him to return to his own diocese, he obtained the bishopric of See also:Lisieux in 1432 by favour of the See also:king of See also:England. He assisted at the council of See also:Basel in 1435, and died suddenly on the 18th of December 1442.

Excommunicated posthumously by See also:

Pope See also:Calixtus IV., his See also:body was exhumed and thrown in the See also:common See also:sewer. See Cerf, " Pierre Cauchon de Sommievre, chanoine de Reims et de Beauvais, eveque de Beauvais et de Lisieux, son origine, ses dignites, sa mort et sa sepulture," in the 1 ransactions of the See also:Academy of Reims (1896–1898).

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