Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), 'the Maid of Orléans', was a French peasant girl from Domrémy in Lorraine who, guided by religious visions, led French armies to a series of crucial victories during the Hundred Years' War and escorted the Dauphin Charles to his coronation at Reims in 1429. Captured by Burgundian forces and sold to the English, she was tried for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, condemned, and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 at approximately nineteen years of age. Her trial was posthumously annulled in 1456; she was beatified in 1909 and canonised in 1920. Joan is one of the most written-about figures in history: she represents the intersection of religious mysticism, peasant agency, nascent French national identity, and the gendered constraints of medieval society.
- Lived: 1412 CE – 1431 CE
- Nationality: french
- Roles: military_leader, religious_figure
