Gilles Deschamps (also Gilles des Champs;

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ized as Aegidius Campensis) (date of death unknown) was a teacher and

bishop of Coutances The Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances (–Avranches) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Constantiensis (–Abrincensis)''; French: ''Diocèse de Coutances (–Avranches)'') is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Its mother church is the Cathe ...

. 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 Joan of Arc was a young French woman who said she had been sent to help Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War, which led to her capture by the English-allied Burgundians during the siege of Compiègne in 1430. She was sold to the English ...

(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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15th-century deaths Bishops of Coutances 15th-century French cardinals 15th-century French Roman Catholic bishops Year of birth unknown {{france-bishop-stub