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1412
Her Family
His parents were Jacques D'Arc and Isabelle Romée. Isabelle Romée was not the original name, it was the nickname given to Isabelle de Vouthon. His parents owned approximately 50 acres and his father complemented his work as a farmer with a minor position, as a village officer, collecting taxes and directing the local guard.He was not poor but reluctantly saw the coming of another new scion more to his family, since Juana had three older brothers. -
Period: Jan 6, 1412 to May 30, 1431
Her Life
Joan of Arc was born in Domrémy on January 6, 1412, she was a young French peasant who led the French army in the Hundred Years War against England, making Charles VII of Valois was crowned King of France. Later she was captured by the Burgundians and given to the English. The clerics condemned her for heresy and Duke John of Bedford burned her alive in Rouen on May 30, 1431, although she was later rehabilitated and canonized as Saint Joan of Arc. -
1425
Beginning
At thirteen, Joan of Arc confessed to having seen St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret, and declared that their voices urged her to lead a devout and pious life. A few years later, he felt called by God to a mission that did not seem within the reach of an illiterate peasant: to lead the French army, crown the king in Reims as king, and expel the English from the country. -
Jul 17, 1429
Coronation of Charles VII
In 1428 she traveled to Vaucouleurs with to join the troops of Prince Charles, but was rejected.
Prince Charles, not without having made her examine by several theologians, agreed at last to entrust her with the command of an army of five thousand men, with which Joan of Arc managed to defeat the English and raise the siege of Orleans. She then conducted a series of victorious campaigns that cleared the dolphin the way to Reims and allowed his coronation as Charles VII of France. -
May 24, 1430
After the War
Finished its task, Joan of Arc stopped hearing their inner voices and asked permission to return home, but at the insistence of those who asked her to stay, continued fighting, first in the unsuccessful attack on Paris in September 1429, and then in the siege of Compiègne, where she was captured by the Burgundians. -
May 21, 1431
Her Trial
Her trial was in Rouen and was accused of witchcraft, with the argument that the voices that spoke to her came from the devil. After an inquisitorial process of three months, she was found guilty of heresy and witchcraft. -
May 30, 1431
Her Death
In the end she was found guilty, although she had defended her innocence, she ended up recanting her statements, which allowed her to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.
Days later, she reaffirmed the divine origin of the voices she heard and executed at the stake. In 1456 it was rehabilitated by Pope Calixto III, at the request of Carlos VII, who promoted the revision of the process. Considered a martyr and converted into the symbol of French unity, she was beatified in 1909.
