The Trial of Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc
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Jean Bréhal was a French Dominican friar, doctor of theology and Inquisitor-General of France. Tasked by the papal legate Guillaume d’Estouteville with reviewing Joan of Arc’s Trial of Condemnation, he gathered witness testimonies and expert opinions across France, and sat with the papal delegates who pronounced the definitive sentence of rehabilitation on 7 July 1456.