Diocese of Beauvais
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The Diocese of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese encompasses the department of Oise in the region of Hauts
St. Peter's Cathedral, Beauvais
Herveus and Roger, two 10th cent. Bishops of Beauvais, panel from the binding of a Pontifical in the cathedral of Beauvais
Pierre Cauchon
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Pierre Cauchon was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Beauvais from 1420 to 1432. He was a partisan of Burgundian and English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred
Diocese of Beauvais
…role in politics. Bishop Roger II died during the First Crusade, Philip of Dreux was a participant in the Third Crusade and the Battle of Bouvines, and Pierre Cauchon was the leading judge in the trial of Jeanne d'Arc. Beginning in 1100, a five year long period of ecclesiastical, social and political discord descended…
15th century drawing of Cauchon's tomb sculpture by François Roger de Gaignières in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Miniature of Pierre Cauchon presiding at Joan of Arc's trial, unknown author (15th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
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Stain glass image of Cauchon's coat of arms at Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Lisieux [fr]