Caterina Bezia

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Female
Place of origin
Barge, Duchy of Savoy
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
End date
5 September 1551
Courts involved
Inquisition of Turin
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Parliament of Turin
Notes

End date: sentence

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Turin
Local judge
Tommaso Giacomelli
Sentence date
5 September 1550
Sentence place
Turin, Duchy of Savoy
Crime category
Magic & witchcraft
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Accused of witchcraft
Accessory penalties
Confiscation of assets

Execution

Execution date
After 5 September 1551
Authority
Parliament of Turin
Execution place
Bagnolo, Duchy of Savoy
Execution type
Burned
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Unknown
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
Unknown
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies

Torino, Archivio di Stato, Archivi camerali, Registro delle sentenze del Parlamento, art. 618, f. 90

 

Petitions
Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies
Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons
Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles
Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other