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  1. #rapsheet #thuglife

    "In 1308 Guichard, Bishop of Troyes, who had a made a number of influential enemies at the French court, was arrested and imprisoned in Louvre. ... He was accused of being the son of an incubus and of having had a pact with the devil which led him to poison the queen's mother and to stick pins into a model of the queen's body until she herself died. When a priest refused to baptise a child the Bishop had had by a nun without knowing the name of the father Guichard had him killed immediately. In addition to other acts of homicide and sorcery he was accused of sodomy, usury, simony, counterfeiting, blasphemy, and inciting to riot."

    (Lerner: The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages, Notre Dame 2007, 69)