Joan was born around 1412 in Domrémy, a village on the French side of the Hundred Years' War. From the age of thirteen she said she heard the voices of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret telling her to drive the English out of France and bring the dauphin Charles to be crowned at Reims. At seventeen she got an audience with the dauphin, was tested by clerics, and given armour and a banner. In May 1429 she lifted the seven-month English siege of Orléans in nine days; that summer the English were broken in open battle at Patay; on July 17 the dauphin was crowned at Reims with Joan beside him. Captured the following May by Burgundian troops at Compiègne and sold to the English, she was tried for heresy by a French ecclesiastical court at Rouen; on May 30, 1431, she was burned at the stake in the Old Market square. She was nineteen. Twenty-five years later a posthumous retrial declared her innocent. She was canonised in 1920 and is, with Saint Denis, co-patron of France.
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Peasant · Visionary · Military Commander · Saint
Joan of Arc
c. 1,412 CE – 1,431 CE
The illiterate teenage farm girl who said she heard saints, persuaded a French king to let her command an army, lifted the siege of Orléans, was burned at the stake at nineteen, and is now the patron saint of France.
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