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To: wideawake

Well done, good historical legwork.

Boettner has Joan of Arc condemned to the stake by the Pope....wasn’t it a Burgundian bishop who presided over her trial?


136 posted on 10/15/2008 9:34:49 PM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud
wasn't it a Burgundian bishop who presided over her trial?

A Burgundian bishop who was in the pay of the English, who wanted Joan, their mortal enemy, dead.

Her trial was also very irregular according to canon law. I believe the law required three clerics to sign off on her condemnation; they had one.

139 posted on 10/15/2008 9:49:17 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Claud
Boettner has Joan of Arc condemned to the stake by the Pope....wasn’t it a Burgundian bishop who presided over her trial?

Pierre Cauchon claimed jurisdiction over Joan of Arc because his English allies captured her in Compiegne in his diocese.

However, as a Catholic from Domremy, she was entitled to demand that she be tried in her own local ordinary's court - which would have resulted most likely in a controversy over canonical jurisdiction which would have to be resolved by a higher authority, likely Rome.

Cauchon ignored canon law and proceeded to preside over a trial for which he had no legally established jurisdiction.

The Pope had no role in her conviction or execution - when he learned of what happened he overturned the verdict and leveled canonical charges against Cauchon, who refused to answer them and fled his diocese to take refuge in English-controlled territory.

The entire trial of Joan of Arc was conducted against canon law and without the Pope's permission.

142 posted on 10/15/2008 9:57:31 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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