Immediately after Joan was captured at Compiègne on May 23, 1430, a vicar of the French heresy inquisitor demanded to try Joan in an inquisition, claiming without proof that she was vehemently suspect of heresy for propagating various errors against the faith. A bishop could also try heresy cases, and Pierre Cauchon emerged for that purpose, claiming right because Joan was captured in his diocese of Beauvais. The University of Paris agreed that he was the only bishop with jurisdiction over her; and he was authorized by the handlers of the child-king Henry VI, “king of England and France,” to purchase her from her captors. The English command in France decided that the venue for the trial would be Rouen rather than Paris, and the jurisdictional question would be solved by having the chapter of Rouen (where there was no archbishop at the moment) cede space temporarily to the diocese of Beauvais to allow Cauchon to function there as bishop. Finally, Henry VI delivered her to Cauchon for trial on January 3, 1431, accusing her of spreading false doctrines, dressing as a man, committing treason, murder, and other crimes.