The Lord Bishop of Beauvais was eager to put it into execution. He, a
priest and Councillor of State, was consumed with a desire, under the
semblance of trying an unfortunate heretic, to sit in judgment on the
descendant of Clovis, of Saint Charlemagne and of Saint Louis.

Early in August, the Sire de Luxembourg had the Maid taken from
Beaulieu, which was not safe enough, to Beaurevoir, near Cambrai.[2069]
There dwelt Dame Jeanne de Luxembourg and Dame Jeanne de Bethune.
Jeanne de Luxembourg was the aunt of Lord Jean, whom she loved dearly.
Among the great of this world she had lived as a saint, and she had
never married. Formerly lady-in-waiting to Queen Ysabeau, King Charles
VII's godmother, one of the most important events of her life had been
to solicit from Pope Martin the canonisation of her Brother, the
Cardinal of Luxembourg, who had died at Avignon in his ninetieth year.
She was known as the Demoiselle de Luxembourg. She was sixty-seven
years of age, infirm and near her end.[2070]

[Footnote 2069: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 109, 110; vol. ii, p. 298; vol.
iii, p. 121. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 389. E. Gomart, _Jeanne d'Arc au
chateau de Beaurevoir_, Cambrai, 1865, in 8vo, 47 pages (_Mem. de la
Societe d'emulation de Cambrai_, xxxviii, 2, pp. 305-348). L. Sambier,
_Jeanne d'Arc et la region du Nord_, Lille, 1901, in 8vo, 63 pages.
Cf. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 300, notes 3 and 4, vol. iv, supplement
xxi.]

[Footnote 2070: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 95, 231. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p.
402. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. i, p. 2;
vol. ii, pp. 72, 73.]

Jeanne de Bethune, widow of Lord Robert de Bar, slain at the Battle
of Azincourt, had married Lord Jean in 1418. She was reputed pitiful,
because, in 1424, she had obtained from her husband the pardon of a
nobleman of Picardy, who had been brought prisoner to Beaurevoir and
was in great danger of being beheaded and quartered.[2071]

[Footnote 2071: A. Duchene, _Histoire de la maison de Bethune_, ch.
iii, and proofs and illustrations, p. 33. Vallet de Viriville, _loc.
cit._, and Morosini, vol. iv, pp. 352, 354.]

These two ladies treated Jeanne kindly. They offered her woman's
clothes or cloth with which to make them; and they urged her to
abandon a dress which appeared to them unseemly. Jeanne refused,
alleging that she had not received permission from Our Lord and that
it was not yet time; later she admitted that had she been able to quit
man's attire,