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With the words "Here begin the proceedings in matters of faith against a deceased woman, Joan, commonly known as the Maid", the trial transcript announces the start, on January 9, 1431, of the judicial inquiry into the case of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc as her name appears at the head of said records).
January 9, 1431, opened in Rouen before a church tribunal chaired by the Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, the “trial in matters of faith” that would lead Jeanne at the stake on 30 May of the same year. The text of the “Minute française” (register which were recorded from day to day, notaries, interrogations and deliberations) has ...
On 30 May 1431, on what is now the Place du Vieux-Marché, Joan of Arc was condemned to be burnt at the stake. Two years earlier, she had led the resistance against English occupation during the Hundred Years’ War, and was taken to Rouen (then under English rule) for her trial. Today, the presence of Joan of Arc in Rouen is palpable in the ...
Oct 5, 2016 · The Bishop proceeded to form at Rouen a “court of justice” for her trial, and on February 21st the Maid was brought before her judges — “Norman priests and doctors of Paris” — in the chapel of Rouen castle. The trial lasted until May 30th, forty sittings being held — some of them in Jeanne’s prison, where for a time she was kept ...
A series of Norman documents proves to us that even in Rouen the Inquisition pursued several cases in matters of faith about the time of Jeanne’s trial. In 1429, the Inquisitor receives nineteen books from the Chapter for things done “in certain cases of faith for the well-being and relief of the jurisdiction of the Church.”
INTRODUCTION. By the order of Pope Calixtus in 1455, the Trial of Jeanne d'Arc at Rouen, which had taken place twenty-four years before, was reconsidered by a great court of lawyers and churchmen, and the condemnation of Jeanne was solemnly annulled and declared wicked and unjust. By this re-trial posterity has been allowed to see the whole ...
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THIRD PUBLIC EXAMINATION. Saturday, 24th February, in the same place. The Bishop and 62 Assessors present. In their presence We did require the forenamed Jeanne to swear to speak the truth simply and absolutely on the questions to be addressed to her, without adding any restriction to her oath.
