Joan of Arc
THE VERDICT IS RENOUNCEDWhen news of her unjust trial and execution spread, everyone involved tried to avoid blame. Even Charles VII sought to overturn the verdict. But nothing happened until Joan's mother, Isabelle Romme, petitioned the Church for a retrial. Because a bishop of the Church (Pierre Cauchon) and the Inquisitor of France (Jean Lemaitre) had convicted her, only the Pope could order a new trial. On November 17, 1455 - at the Cathedral of Notre Dame - Joan's mother and brothers pleaded for a new trial. Fortunately, the clerk of the original trial, Guillaume Manchon, was still alive. Manchon testified about the improprieties he had witnessed at Joan's trial and signed his name. It took less than a year for the judges to renounce the verdict which had condemned Joan to death. On June 7, 1456, they used especially harsh words regarding Pierre Cauchon and his colleagues:
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Joan's status in the Church was restored. The new verdict was publicly read in the Rouen marketplace, where Joan had been burned 25 years before.
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Biographies
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Attila the Hun
- Beethoven's Hair
- Benedict Arnold
- Brockovich, Erin
- Chronicles of Narnia
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
- Galveston and the Great Storm of 1900