Pope Calixtus III authorized the suit of Joan’s mother and brothers for damages to their (and Joan’s) honor when Joan was convicted and burned for heresy. Because of the bungled terms of the petition submitted to the pope, the issue was identified solely as a matter of local jealousy, and the chief defendant was identified as Promotor Estivet (with the wrong name of “Guillaume”), along with judges Cauchon and Lemaistre; and the modern counterparts of Estivet and sub-inquisitor (Lemaistre) were to be summoned, and the current inquisitor added to the judges. On November 11, 1455, in Paris, Pierre Maugier, dean of the Faculty of Canon Law of the University of Paris, along with Joan’s mother, Isabelle Rommée d’Arc, and her two sons, Pierre and Jean, presented their case to the papal judges, Archbishop Jean Jouvenal des Ursins of Rheims and Bishop Guillaume Chartier of Paris, in the distorted terms of the commission (i.e., no mention of the war with or intimidation by the English). The trial was to take place in Rouen, and now even the present-day bishop of Beauvais was to be cited, as well as the present-day promotor and sub-inquisitor of Beauvais, as presumptive defendants.

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

The Arc Family Sues at the Papal Court, 1455

  • Henry Ansgar Kelly

摘要

Pope Calixtus III authorized the suit of Joan’s mother and brothers for damages to their (and Joan’s) honor when Joan was convicted and burned for heresy. Because of the bungled terms of the petition submitted to the pope, the issue was identified solely as a matter of local jealousy, and the chief defendant was identified as Promotor Estivet (with the wrong name of “Guillaume”), along with judges Cauchon and Lemaistre; and the modern counterparts of Estivet and sub-inquisitor (Lemaistre) were to be summoned, and the current inquisitor added to the judges. On November 11, 1455, in Paris, Pierre Maugier, dean of the Faculty of Canon Law of the University of Paris, along with Joan’s mother, Isabelle Rommée d’Arc, and her two sons, Pierre and Jean, presented their case to the papal judges, Archbishop Jean Jouvenal des Ursins of Rheims and Bishop Guillaume Chartier of Paris, in the distorted terms of the commission (i.e., no mention of the war with or intimidation by the English). The trial was to take place in Rouen, and now even the present-day bishop of Beauvais was to be cited, as well as the present-day promotor and sub-inquisitor of Beauvais, as presumptive defendants.