At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy.
Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine. In 1415, the Hundred Years War between England and France entered a crucial phase when the young King Henry V of England invaded France and won a series of decisive victories against the forces of King Charles VI.
By the time of Henry’s death in August 1422, the English and their French-Burgundian allies controlled Aquitaine and most of northern France, including Paris. Charles VI, long incapacitated, died one month later, and his son, Charles, regent from 1418, prepared to take the throne. However, Reims, the traditional city of French coronation, was held by the Anglo-Burgundians, and the Dauphin (heir apparent to the French throne) remained uncrowned. Meanwhile, King Henry VI of England, the infant son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI, was proclaimed king of France by the English.
Joan’s village of Domremy lay on the frontier between the France of the Dauphin and that of the Anglo-Burgundians. In the midst of this unstable environment, Joan began hearing “voices” of three Christian saints—St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. When she was about 16, these voices exhorted her to aid the Dauphin in capturing Reims and therefore the French throne. In May 1428, she traveled to Vaucouleurs, a stronghold of the Dauphin, and told the captain of the garrison of her visions. Disbelieving the young peasant girl, he sent her home. In January 1429, she returned, and the captain, impressed by her piety and determination, agreed to allow her passage to the Dauphin at Chinon.
Dressed in men’s clothes and accompanied by six soldiers, she reached the Dauphin’s castle at Chinon in February 1429 and was granted an audience. Charles hid himself among his courtiers, but Joan immediately picked him out and informed him of her divine mission. For several weeks, Charles had Joan questioned by theologians at Poitiers, who concluded that, given his desperate straits, the Dauphin would be well-advised to make use of this strange and charismatic girl.
Charles furnished her with a small army, and on April 27, 1429, she set out for Orleans, besieged by the English since October 1428. On April 29, as a French sortie distracted the English troops on the west side of Orleans, Joan entered unopposed by its eastern gate. She brought greatly needed supplies and reinforcements and inspired the French to a passionate resistance. She personally led the charge in several battles and on May 7 was struck by an arrow. After quickly dressing her wound, she returned to the fight, and the French won the day. On May 8, the English retreated from Orleans.
During the next five weeks, Joan and the French commanders led the French into a string of stunning victories over the English. On July 16, the royal army reached Reims, which opened its gates to Joan and the Dauphin. The next day, Charles VII was crowned king of France, with Joan standing nearby holding up her standard: an image of Christ in judgment. After the ceremony, she knelt before Charles, joyously calling him king for the first time.
On September 8, the king and Joan attacked Paris. During the battle, Joan carried her standard up to the earthworks and called on the Parisians to surrender the city to the king of France. She was wounded but continued to rally the king’s troops until Charles ordered an end to the unsuccessful siege. That year, she led several more small campaigns, capturing the town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moitier. In December, Charles ennobled Joan, her parents, and her brothers.
In May 1430, the Burgundians laid siege to Compiegne, and Joan stole into the town under the cover of darkness to aid in its defense. On May 23, while leading a sortie against the Burgundians, she was captured. The Burgundians sold her to the English, and in March 1431 she went on trial before ecclesiastical authorities in Rouen on charges of heresy. Her most serious crime, according to the tribunal, was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. After refusing to submit to the church, her sentence was read on May 24: She was to be turned over to secular authorities and executed. Reacting with horror to the pronouncement, Joan agreed to recant and was condemned instead to perpetual imprisonment.
Ordered to put on women’s clothes, she obeyed, but a few days later the judges went to her cell and found her dressed again in male attire. Questioned, she told them that St. Catherine and St. Margaret had reproached her for giving in to the church against their will. She was found to be a relapsed heretic and on May 29 ordered handed over to secular officials. On May 30, Joan, 19 years old, was burned at the stake at the Place du Vieux-Marche in Rouen. Before the pyre was lit, she instructed a priest to hold high a crucifix for her to see and to shout out prayers loud enough to be heard above the roar of the flames.
As a source of military inspiration, Joan of Arc helped turn the Hundred Years’ War firmly in France’s favor. By 1453, Charles VII had reconquered all of France except for Calais, which the English relinquished in 1558. In 1920, Joan of Arc, one of the great heroes of French history, was recognized as a Christian saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Her feast day is May 30.
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So many errors in that article: First her parents were not tenant farmer, her dad Jack of Arc was a tax collector (role often given to man of lower nobility). At the age of 13, Joan moved out of Domremy to a castle located near by in a place called Le Bois Chenu. The place was open to the public until a Frenchman wrote about it at the beginning of the 21st century. Now the entire foundation of the castle is surrounded by barbed wire.
Prior to the day she went to Vaucouleurs allegedly to ask help to go to the Dauphin in Chinon (which by the way was the last place of imprisonment of Jacques du Molay, last known Grand Master of the Templar) Joan and her family went to Nancy and visited the Duke of Lorraine. She was offered a war horse (to a shepherdess?). The following week, tournaments and joust went on to celebrate May Day. Joan won several of them. (archives are visible to “scholars” only in Nancy) (The Frenchman mentioned above has a copy of those documents).
When she freed Orleans, Joan was not alone. She received help from none other than Rene d’Anjou who’s mother was Yolande du Bar (incidently the Arc family moved out of the city of Bar to become tax collector in Domremy). At the crowning of Charles in Reims, she brought a flag that was deemed illegal in Europe since 1312 (that year Clement V dismantle the order of the Knight Templar). The flag in question was Beauceant. She was quoted as saying “He was in terrible places and deserves honor”.
There are no witnesses to the Burning of Joan. The population had been kept hundred paces around the pyre. The woman who arrived and tied to post was wearing a hood so no one could see her face. As she was burning She didn’t move which might suggest she had been drugged. (This is testimony of an anonymous witness and many copies of it have subsisted).
Two years later Joan was seen and recognized in the city of Orleans.
On the facade of the alleged birth house of Joan there is a statue of her kneeling. Under that statue a carved stone defaced which bear the year of construction 1447…. oups….
Another little known facts of mores of the day: If a person has been captured then sold to whomever wanted to person, the original captors (in this case the Duke of Luxembourg) had the right to buy back that person for the price of the original ransom
If History ever got a story correct it would be by Pure Accident.
I honestly believe they are worse than Wicked-Pedia.
Thanks Stucky. I seldom look lyingpedia, and when I do it’s only to verify their lies.
I visited Domremy in 2013 (unfortunately at that time I didn’t know about the Bois Chenu). But I managed to take several pictures of the house presented above interior and exterior (although this one is not mine).
You’re most welcome. I stupidly forgot to add …. I enjoyed reading the truth YOU posted!! I’m really most grateful you post here. Your perspectives from France are interesting and deeply appreciated. I hope you’re in a safe area, far away from the possible upcoming French Rebellion, Part IV, or whatever the next number is!
Right now it’s quiet in town but not in neighboring ones. I’m getting ready for.. unknown.
Today in Paris a mob of antifa aggressed a Christian procession commemorating the murder of Christians about 150 years ago by commies. Thankfully this time there wasn’t any dead.
https://www.ncregister.com/news/remembering-the-catholic-martyrs-of-the-commune-of-paris
Thank you for a good read and some educatiun
You’re welcome. When I happen to know a subject I share it. Glad you enjoyed it.
I will believe in Joan when pigs fly out of my butt. The whole thing was made up by heretics.
The original heretics were burned at Montsegur March 16 1244. This was the way Christianity was settled in most Europe, with swords pyre and threats.
The next ones didn’t show until the 16th century. Sorry pal, but Joan really kicked butt of the Brits. (I’m Gnostic so for you I’m a heretic as well).
Thanks it’s a beautiful song