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Jean Bréhal OP was the inquisitor-general of France who led the effort to rehabilitate Joan of Arc. Biography. Little is known about the life of Jean Bréhal with the exception of some documents regarding his career within the Dominican Order.
Jean Bréhal, né vers 1400 en Normandie et mort en 1479 à Évreux, était un dominicain, inquisiteur de France, prieur du couvent Saint-Jacques de Paris. Il a rouvert le procès de Jeanne d'Arc.
Jean Bréhal, dominico, inquisidor de Francia, prior del convento de Saint-Jacques en París. Reabrió el juicio de Juana de Arco.
Jean Bréhal is a Dominican friar from Normandy and a theology professor, who became renowned as an inquisitor in the kingdom of France, neither for tracking down heresy nor pursuing witches, but for quashing sentences, more especially the sentence of condemnation of the Maid of Orléans, twenty five years after she was burnt at the stake in Rouen.
Bréhal synthesized the material and wrote a recollectio, a compilation of arguments that favored Jeanne. Bréhal’s piece justified Jeanne’s mystical experience as the freedom of God to choose his prophet in the world and make himself known on his own terms.
Brehal, JEAN, a French Dominican theologian of the convent of Evreux; died c. 1479. He was made Doctor of Theology at the University of Caen, 1443; Prior of St.-Jacques, Paris, 1455; and Inquisitor General of France, 1452, which office he held until 1474.
Jean Bréhal. Catholic Online. Catholic Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Volume. Free World Class Education. FREE Catholic Classes. A French Dominican theologian of the convent of Evreux ; died c. 1479.
