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|Joan's show trial at Rouen commences | |Joan's show trial at Rouen commences with the first of six "public examinations" (the court later moved to "private examinations" as it was getting embarrassed by Joan's testimonies). Present on the 21st at the Castle of Rouen was Bishop Cauchon and forty-two "Assessors", made up of clerics and theologians from Rouen and Paris. | ||
|The English hand Joan over to a French ecclesiastical court, but, in violation of that transfer of authority, keep her in an English prison; normally she would be held in a Church prison for women | |The English hand Joan over to a French ecclesiastical court, but, in violation of that transfer of authority, keep her in an English prison; normally she would be held in a Church prison for women | ||
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