Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (born 1371)

Pierre Cauchon

15th-century Catholic bishop of Beauvais, France

Pierre Cauchon was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Beauvais from 1420 to 1432. He was a strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War. He was the judge in the trial of Joan of Arc and played a key role in her…