Cardinal Henry Beaufort (1375 – 1447) was a member of the royal house of Plantagenet, a medieval English clergyman, Bishop of Lincoln (1398), then Winchester (1404), and a Cardinal from 1426. After the English captured Joan of Arc in 1431, legend has it that Beaufort was present to observe some of the heresy trial sessions presided over by Bishop Pierre Cauchon of Beauvais. Legend has it that he wept as she was burned at the stake. Beaufort continued to be active in English politics for years, fighting with the other powerful advisors to the king.

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