Historical Figures

Pierre Cauchon (1371 - 1442)

From the prestigious University of Paris, he is a great scholar and a politician:he is a master of arts, licentiate in canon law, doctor of theology, canon of Beauvais in 1409, university rector, defender of Jean sans Peur at the Council of Constance, master of requests to Parliament in 1418. He was one of the active members of the party reformist, Gallican and Burgundian. In 1420, on the recommendation of Henri V, Duke of Burgundy, he became Bishop of Beauvais and as such was the main animator of the trial of Joan of Arc since the latter was taken to his diocese, in Compiègne. After his death, he was appointed bishop of Lisieux in 1431.