Pierre Cauchon

Timeline

1. 1371–1420Northern France · PicardyCauchon came from northern France, held various parish offices, and gradually rose to the episcopal rank, maintaining close ties with Burgundian and Church politics in the English-occupied territories.
2. 1420–1430Beauvais · BeauvaisAround 1420 he became Bishop of Beauvais, supporting the English–Burgundian side in the divided landscape of the Hundred Years' War, laying the political and ecclesiastical groundwork for his later role presiding over the trial of Joan of Arc.
3. 1431–1440Rouen · RouenIn 1431, as president of the tribunal, he presided in Rouen over the heresy proceedings against Joan of Arc, sentencing her to be burned at the stake; he continued to participate in church councils and ecclesiastical affairs in the occupied territory of Normandy until around 1440.
4. 1440–1442Lisieux · LisieuxHe continued to serve as Archbishop of Rouen in the 1440s, dying of illness near Lisieux on December 15, 1442, and remained a subject of long-standing historiographical controversy over the Joan of Arc case after his death.