Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index d. 1442, bishop of Beauvais, France, president of the ecclesiastic court that convicted (1431) Joan of Arc at Rouen. His ferocious devotion to the English made an impartial trial unachievable. Cauchon’s course of action was renounced by the church in the rehabilitation trial (1456) of Joan. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.