1. Pierre Cauchon was a strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War.
25 Facts About Pierre Cauchon
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Pierre Cauchon was the judge in the trial of Joan of Arc and played a key role in her execution.
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Pierre Cauchon entered the clergy as a teenager and went to Paris, where he studied at the University of Paris.
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Pierre Cauchon followed with studies in canon law and theology and became a priest.
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Pierre Cauchon defended the University of Paris in a quarrel against Toulouse.
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Pierre Cauchon allied himself with Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy and later his successor, Philip the Good.
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In 1407, Pierre Cauchon was part of a mission from the crown of France to attempt to reconcile the Schism between the rival claimants to the papacy: Boniface IX and Gregory XII.
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Pierre Cauchon formed part of a commission charged with proposing sanctions and reforms.
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The next year, Pierre Cauchon became the official ambassador of the Duke of Burgundy.
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Bishop Cauchon supported the election of Pope Martin V Shortly afterward, Cauchon became archdeacon of Chartres; canon of Rheims, Chalons, and Beauvais; and chaplain of the Duke of Burgundy.
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Pierre Cauchon took part in the royal marriage negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Troyes.
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Bishop Pierre Cauchon spent most of the next two years in service to the king.
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Pierre Cauchon returned to his diocese with the deaths of Charles VI and Henry V Pierre Cauchon departed for a visit to Rheims in 1429 when Joan of Arc and the French army approached for the coronation of Charles VII.
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Pierre Cauchon had always allied with the opposition to Charles VII.
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Pierre Cauchon went to Rouen, seat of the English government in France.
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Pierre Cauchon escorted Henry from London to Rouen as part of a clerical delegation.
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Pierre Cauchon played a leading role in negotiations to gain Joan of Arc from the Burgundians for the English.
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Pierre Cauchon claimed jurisdiction to try her case because Compiegne was in his diocese of Beauvais.
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Pierre Cauchon organized events carefully with a number of ecclesiastics, many of whom came from the pro-English University of Paris.
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Concerned for the regularity of the proceeding, Bishop Pierre Cauchon forwarded a bill of indictment to Paris in order to obtain the opinion of university clerics, who agreed with the charges.
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Pierre Cauchon was interested in a vacancy at the archbishop's palace at Rouen.
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When constable Arthur de Richemont returned to favour with Charles VII of France in 1436, Pierre Cauchon went as ambassador to the Council of Basel.
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Pierre Cauchon was active for the unsuccessful English side in the peace negotiations that ended in reconciliation between the French and the Burgundians.
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Pierre Cauchon divided his later years between his new diocese and a residence in Rouen.
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Pierre Cauchon was buried in Lisieux Cathedral beneath the vault he had patronised.