Claim: Joan of Arc was excommunicated.
Evidence: Joan of Arc -LRB- Jeanne d'Arc , -LSB- ʒan daʁk -RSB- ; 6 January c. 1412 -- 30 May 1431 -RRB- , nicknamed `` The Maid of Orléans '' -LRB- La Pucelle d'Orléans -RRB- , is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years ' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.