Giacomo Bech

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Iacopo Bech
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Chieri, County 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 1388
Courts involved
Extradition
Other judges involved
Tommaso di Casasco
Notes

Sentence

Court
Local judge
Antonio di Settimo da Savigliano
Sentence date
5 September 1388
Sentence place
Turin, County of Savoy, San Giovanni Battista
Crime category
List of crimes

Member of the sect of the fraticelli;

believed that the devil is the creator of all visible things;

that human souls are the fallen angels;

that the twelve articles of faith are false.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
after 5 September 1388
Authority
Pier Malabaila vicar of Turin
Execution place
Execution type
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
Sacraments imparted
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
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Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. D. III. 18 (published in Girolamo Amati, Processus contra valdenses in Lombardia superiori, anno 1387, in «Archivio storico italiano» s. III, 38 (1865), pp. 3-52; 39 (1865), pp. 3-61).

Turin, Archivio arcivescovile, Protocollo 19, ff, 46v-ss (published in Giuseppe Manuel di San Giovanni, Un episodio della storia del Piemonte nel secolo XIII con alcune notizie e osservazioni critiche sugli eretici valdesi e bagnolesi e sugli antichi signori di Bagnolo, corredate da documenti, in «Miscellanea di storia italiana» XV (1874), pp. 5-84: 75-84).

Archivio di Stato di Torino, Materie ecclesiastiche per categoria, categoria 38, mazzo I (published in Giuseppe Boffito, Eretici in Piemonte al tempo del Gran scisma (1478-1417), in «Studi e documenti di storia e diritto» 18 (1897), pp. 381-431: 391-402).

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