Jeanne d' Arc
Jeanne d' Arc
(1412-1431) is a heroin of the French history which lived with the Middle Ages, during the
One hundred Year old war One calls it also Jeanne the Virgin or the Maid of
Orleans.
Jeanne d' Arc is a
country-woman of the village of Domrémy, in Lorraine. Child, it would have
heard voices come from the sky asking him to go to the
help of the king Charles VII. At that time indeed, in full One
hundred Year old war, most of the kingdom is under English domination; the
king of France, called "the king of Bourges", controls nothing any
more but one reduced field.
In 1429, when it is 17
years old, Jeanne d' Arc goes to Chinon and persuades Charles VII to entrust an
army to him. With a troop of royal soldiers, it
releases Orleans, then
brings Charles VII in Rheims where
he is crowned. But the following year, it
is captured by the Burgundian ones which deliver it to the
English. Judged for sorcery, she dies burned sharp on the place from the market in Rouen, May 30,
1431.
Its lawsuit is revised
in 1456 then, in 1920, Jeanne d' Arc is declared holy by the catholic Church.
TO GO FURTHER
? the One hundred Year old war
? Charles VII
? the Middle Ages
?interactivity: chronology of the Middle Ages
?play: characters of the Middle Ages
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