About Gilles Deschamps
Lived 1350 – 1413 (aged 62–63). Gilles Deschamps was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Gilles Deschamps (also Gilles des Champs; Latinized as Aegidius Campensis) was a teacher and bishop of Coutances. He was created cardinal by Antipope John XXIII on 6 July 1411, and thus considered a pseudocardinal (Pierre d'Ailly was another such cardinal). Jean Gerson studied under both Deschamps and D'Ailly.
Deschamps was present at the trial of Joan of Arc (1431), where he "asked that the articles be read to counsel her, and a day assigned for her to appear, and that she be advised to reply."
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Who was Gilles Deschamps?
Catholic cardinal
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Gilles Deschamps was born in 1350 in Rouen.
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Gilles Deschamps died on 5 March 1413 in Rouen.
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Gilles Deschamps was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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