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What specific charge did Pierre Cauchon use to send Joan of Arc to the stake on 30 May 1431?
Joan signed a brief abjuration on 24 May and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Within three days she was wearing men's clothing again — her testimony said because the male clothing was harder to remove during assault. The court called it relapse.
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The 19-Year-Old Peasant Girl Tried for Heresy by the Bishop of Beauvais and Burned at the Stake at Rouen on 30 May 1431 Joan of Arc was tried for heresy at Rouen between 9 January and 30 May 1431 by a Church court under the Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon, who was on the English military payroll. Seventy specific articles were reduced to twelve and then to one — relapse into men's clothing. She was burned at the stake in the Vieux-Marché on 30 May 1431. The verdict was overturned in 1456 by the same Church.
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