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
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)
Stain glass image of Cauchon's coat of arms at Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Lisieux [fr]
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundre
Pierre Cauchon
…years in service to the king. He returned to his diocese with the deaths of Kings Charles VI and Henry V. He departed for a visit to Reims in 1429 when Joan of Arc and the French army approached for the coronation of King Charles VII. Cauchon had always allied with the opposition to Charles VII. Shortly after the…
Speculative portrait, c. late 19th-century, in the style of a 15th-century miniature
Charles VII of France by Jean Fouquet (c. 1444, Louvre, Paris)
Coronation of Charles VII in Guillaume de Nangis' Chronicon abbreviatum regum Francorum; Joan of Arc stands holding a banner of France to his left. Unknown author (15th century).
Miniature depicting Jeanne d'Arc from The Lives of Famous Women, by Jean Pichore [fr] (1506, Musée Dobrée, Nantes, France)