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Sign up to view the full document End of preview Upgrade to view the full document Joan of Arc was born on January 6 1412 in the village of Domremy in north-eastern France Her father Jacques was a peasant farmer and a minor village official Her mother Isabelle raised her daughter in the teachings of the Christian faith Joan was more religious than most of the girls in her village At the age of thirteen or fourteen Joan began to hear voices and to have visions She claimed the voices and visions were of Saint Michael Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine These voices told Joan to free the city of Orleans from the English who were overtaking it The voices also told her to take the dauphin to Reims where he would be crowned king of France Complete with a mountain escort by Robert de Baudncourt captain of the nearby town Joan proceeded across France in February 1429 to the castle of Chinon in the Loore Valley where the dauphin then resided With doubts in his mind Charles had her examined at Poitiers by a group of distinguished clergy and theologians who assured him of the orthodoxy of her religious beliefs Charles then assigned a squire a page heralds and a confessor and sent her on her off with a small force to

 Orleans where she joined the army resisting the English siege There in the first week of May 1429 Joan led a series of successful battles against the English and so defeated them that they raised the siege and departed on May 8 The news of the victory spread quickly across France and gave a new spirit of hope to the people The next step in Joans plan called for the coronation of the dauphin at Reims She believed that this would invest Charles with his rightful authority and restore to the French people a sense of national togetherness The dauphin was to only surviving son of the late King Charles VI and had been disinherited in @Kibin is a lifesaver for my essay right now!!

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Sign up to view the full document End of preview Upgrade to view the full document Joan of Arc was born on January 6 1412 in the village of Domremy in north-eastern France Her father Jacques was a peasant farmer and a minor village official Her mother Isabelle raised her daughter in the teachings of the Christian faith Joan was more religious than most of the girls in her village At the age of thirteen or fourteen Joan began to hear voices and to have visions She claimed the voices and visions were of Saint Michael Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine These voices told Joan to free the city of Orleans from the English who were overtaking it The voices also told her to take the dauphin to Reims where he would be crowned king of FranceComplete with a mountain escort by Robert de Baudncourt captain of the nearby town Joan proceeded across France in February 1429 to the castle of Chinon in the Loore Valley where the dauphin then resided With doubts in his mind Charles had her examined at Poitiers by a group of distinguished clergy and theologians who assured him of the orthodoxy of her religious beliefs Charles then assigned a squire a page heralds and a confessor and sent her on her off with a small force to

 Orleans where she joined the army resisting the English siege There in the first week of May 1429 Joan led a series of successful battles against the English and so defeated them that they raised the siege and departed on May 8 The news of the victory spread quickly across France and gave a new spirit of hope to the peopleThe next step in Joans plan called for the coronation of the dauphin at Reims She believed that this would invest Charles with his rightful authority and restore to the French people a sense of national togetherness The dauphin was to only surviving son of the late King Charles VI and had been disinherited in @Kibin is a lifesaver for my essay right now!!

- Sandra Slivka, student @ UC Berkeley Wow, this is the best essay help I've ever received! - Camvu Pham, student @ U of M If I'd known about @Kibin in college, I would have gotten much more sleep - Jen Soust, alumni @ UCLA Joan of Arc - Maid of Heaven - Domremy-la-Pucelle Joan's Hometown The Hometown of Joan of Arc "I was born in the town of Domremy which makes one with Greux. It is in Greux that the principle church is." Joan of Arc testifying about her hometown at her trial in Rouen Joan Of Arc was born and lived in the small village of Domremy (now called Domremy-la-Pucelle meaning Domremy the Maid to honor Joan) until she left when she was sixteen to save France. Joan's parents Jacques and Isabelle were peasants who owned about fifty acres of land around Domremy and also a small house in Domremy pictured below that is still standing and looks pretty much as it did when Joan lived there.

Joan's mother Isabelle latter described Joan's life while she was growing up in Domremy: "I had a daughter born in lawful wedlock who grew up amid the fields and pastures. I had her baptized and confirmed and brought her up in the fear of God. I taught her respect for the traditions of the Church as much as I was able to do given her age and simplicity of her condition. I succeeded so well that she spent much of her time in church and after having gone to confession she received the sacrament of the Eucharist every month. Because the people suffered so much, she had a great compassion for them in her heart and despite her youth she would fast and pray for them with great devotion and fervor." The Church of Saint-Remy was located right next door to Joan's house and was where she was baptized and spent so much of her time praying.

The church warden when Joan lived in Domremy, Perrin Drappier, later described Joan and her visits to the church: "Joan the Maid, in the time of her youth until she left her father's house, was a good, chaste and simple girl, modest in manner, taking not the name of God nor of His saints in vain, fearing God. She went frequently to church and frequently confessed. The cause of my knowing this is that I was, in those days, churchwarden at the church of Domremy and often did I see Joan come to church, to Mass and to Compline. And when I did not ring the bells for Compline, Joan would catch me and scold me, saying that I had not done well; and she even promised to give me some wool if I would be punctual in ringing for Compline. And Joan went often with her sisters and others to the church and hermitage of Bermont , founded in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

She gave liberal alms, and worked gladly, spinning and doing the other necessary tasks, and sometimes she went out plouughing, and took her turn guarding the cattle." To learn more about the Faith of Joan of Arc visit: Joan of Arc This site has been archived for historical purposes. These pages are no longer being updated. Joan of Arc: Insignis * *A person outstanding in following the King of Heaven Joan of Arc Equestrian St. Joan Jehanne, Maid of Orleans Christ promised: "Behold I am with you all days - until the end of time". He formed his Church - but the human side of it sometimes breaks down and leaders lose their way. In fact Hilaire Belloc claims that it almost seemed as if the church was about to collapse five distinct times during its 20 century history. Then suddenly new life returned because of some special divine intervention - some special visitations occured. This happened five and a half centuries ago when France lost hope with a dysfunctional church: God sent a saint to bring hope the French - Her name was Joan of Arc.

The Hundred-year war between France and England from 1337 to 1453 was celebrated in Shakespeare's Henry V with the battle at Agencourt and the marriage of Henry to the daughter of Mad King Charles VI. Joan of Arc was born on the feast of the Epiphany in 1412 in the village of Domremy in the province of Lorraine. She was burned at the stake on 30 May, 1431 at the age of 19. In 1920, May 30 was made the feast of Joan of Arc - because of the extraordinary story of an illiterate peasant girl who never left her village - but who loved to pray She is unique among saints - the only one to be condemned by a Church trial and executed for heresy: God communicated with her when she was 13 in a beautiful way - through voices of saints and angels of kindred spirits, urging her to become a soldier, to lift the English siege at Orleans, to restore king Charles to the throne of France, to drive out the English and thus restore HOPE to the French people.

George Bernard Shaw's play, SAINT JOAN distorted the story by eliminating God's part; He made Joan merely a very fascinating, very intelligent girl. She was certainly that, but there is much more to the story, and Joan would be the first to insist on the part God played in the drama. In fact God used the weak to confound the strong. There is clear evidence of God's grace from the continuing fulfillment of her very specific prophesies, her marvelous ability to convince wily politicians, lead a huge army of veteran soldiers and outmaneuver learned theologians. She is unique in history in that her whole biography comes to us under oath. This involves the minutes taken at the ecclesiastic trial that condemned her in 1431 and the 1456 retrial that cleared her name, declaring the earlier trial a criminal miscarraige of justice and truth. The sworn testimony of the eyewitnesses makes Joan the most unimpeachable of all saints.

At the age of 17 Joan took over supreme command of the disintegrating French army, just as the English were about to destroy it completely; and in seven short weeks Joan was victorious and broke the back of the 100 year war, thereby preventing France from Ireland's fate - of becoming a province of the English. She saved France just in time, since England shortly after was lost to the Faith because of the dreadful; behavior of Henry VIII. Joan did everything well with amazing courage and miraculous intelligence. She seemed to learn everything she needed to know immediately, such as riding a horse, dealing with politicians, soldiers and churchmen. This young illiterate girl overruled field officers and won battles where the experts had lost: Her campaigns are still taught at the French Military Academy (St. Cyr) as examples of perfect military tactics. She later confounded the dishonest bishops of the inquisition with miraculous logic, inspired argumentation and fearless humor. When asked by one of her tormentors from Southern France if her "voices" were spoken in the French language, she answered, "in better French than yours". She did this five and a half centuries ago and was considered a saint by all French people since then.

But for some reason the documents of her trials were stored in archives for four centuries until 1850, and she was not declared a saint by the Church until Pius X beatified her in 1909 and Pope Benedict canonized her in 1920. Joan's life echoes that of Christ. Her humble birth, her very short three years of public life, her youth, the wonders she worked, the fulfillment of her very specific prophesies. She brought salvation to France, was persecuted by religious leaders, was arrested by scoundrels, endured a sham trial and a brutal death.

Map showing Joan's travels and campaigns major battles are marked with an X In an essay on Joan of Arc Mark Twain assesses "this remarkable girl" We can understand how Joan could be born with military genius, with leonine courage, with incomparable fortitude, with a mind which was in several particulars a prodigy, a mind which included among its specialties the lawyer's gift of detecting traps laid by the adversary in cunning and treacherous arrangements of seemingly innocent words, the orator's gift of eloquence, the advocate's gift of presenting a case in clear and compact form, the judge's gift of sorting and weighing evidence, and finally, something recognizable as more than a mere trace of the statesman's gift of understanding a political situation and how to make profitable use of such opportunities as it offers; we can comprehend how she could be born with these great qualities, but we cannot comprehend how they became immediately usable and effective without the developing forces of a sympathetic atmosphere and the training which comes of teaching, study, practice, years of practice and the crowning and perfecting help of a thousand mistakes. It is beyond us. All the rules fail in this girl's case. In the world's history she stands alone - quite alone.

Others have been great in their first public exhibitions of generalship, valor, legal talent, diplomacy, and fortitude; but always their previous years and associations had been in a larger or smaller degree a preparation for these things. There have been no exceptions to the rule. But Joan was competent in a law case at sixteen without ever having seen a law book or a court-house before; she had no training in soldiering and no associations with it, yet she was a competent general in her first campaign; she was brave in her first battle, yet her courage had had no education. Friendless, alone, ignorant, in the blossom of her youth, she sat week after week, a prisoner in chains, before her assemblage of judges, enemies hunting her to her death, the ablest minds in France, and answered them out of an untaught wisdom which overmatched their learning, baffled their tricks and treacheries with a native sagacity which compelled their wonder, and scored every day a victory against these incredible odds and camped unchallenged on the field. In the history of the human intellect, untrained, inexperienced, and using only its birthright equipment of untried capacities, there is nothing which approaches this.

Joan of Arc stands alone, and must continue to stand alone, by reason of the fact that in the things wherein she was great she was so without shade or suggestion of help from preparatory teaching, practice, environment, or experience. There is no one to compare her with, none to measure her by; for all others among the illustrious grew towards their high place in an atmosphere and surroundings which discovered their gift to them and nourished it and promoted it, intentionally or unconsciously. Her history has still another feature which sets her apart and leaves her without fellow or competitor: there have been many uninspired prophets, but she was the only one who ever ventured the daring detail of naming, along with a foretold event, the event's precise nature, the special time-limit within which it would occur, and the place and scored fulfillment. At Vaucouleurs she said she must go to the King and be made his general, and break the English power, and crown her sovereign - "at Rheims." It all happened. It was all to happen "next year" - and it did. She foretold her first wound and its character and date a month in advance, and the prophecy was recorded in a public record-book three weeks in advance.

She repeated it the morning of the date named, and it was fulfilled before night. At Tours she foretold the limit of her military career - saying it would end in one year from the time of its utterance - and she was right. She foretold her martyrdom - using that word, and naming a time three months away - and again she was right. At a time when France seemed hopelessly and permanently in the hands of the English she twice asserted in her prison before her judges that within seven years the English would meet with a mightier disaster than had been the fall of Orleans: it happened within five - the fall of Paris. Other prophecies of hers came true, both as to the event named and within the time limit prescribed. Taking into account, as I have suggested before, all the circumstances - her origin, youth, sex, illiteracy, early environment, and the obstructing conditions under which she exploited her high gifts and made her conquests in the field and before the courts that tried her for her life, she is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced. Frances Gies summarizes Joan's life (p. 238) and compares Joan with other mystics (p.

25). Few historical characters, and no women, are more famous than Joan of Arc. Her name and story are known throughout the world. In the Middle Ages there were women who led armies, female mystics who prophesied and gave advice, and men and women alike whose beliefs led them to the stake. Joan's story has a unique quality, a fairy tale with a tragic ending, invested with her own personality - her common sense, her superior intelligence, her trenchant speech, her indomitable courage, before the judges at Rouen as in the moat at Orleans. Certainly Joan was no heretic, she was no reformer, either social or ecclesiastical, no pre-Protestant, no social revolutionary. She accepted the social system, she zealously observed the rites and sacraments of the Church. She surely belonged to no dissident group. Yet Joan was not an ordinary Catholic Christian, or an ordinary anything. She was something else - intensely individualistic, innerdirected, believing so strongly in her own revelations that after a year of imprisonment and months of questioning and pressure, and in the shadow of the scaffold, she maintained unflinchingly that her voices were those of St. Catherine and St.

Margaret and that they had been sent to her by God. Joan's clash was not only with Church authority, but with the authoritarian character of the Church, the fact that it reserved for itself the power of deciding what was the truth. Thus the Church - conducted 1456 Rehabilitation found the 1431 Church - conducted trial unjust and fraudulent. The Church raised Joan to sainthood strictly for her virtues. No mention was made of her military accomplishments, her martyrdom, her voices, or her visions. By a reverberating irony, while Joan is now a saint, both Catherine and Margaret have been stricken from the Church calendar because of doubts that they ever really existed. In the Middle Ages women mystics had remarkable careers, exerting influence over princes as well as peasants. Four in particular have significance in relation to Joan. Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179), whose visions, like Joan's, were accompanied by light - "a great flash from heavens" - was consulted by popes, emperors, and kings, whom in her correspondence she addressed as equals.

Elizabeth of Schonau (1128-1164), who was visited by angels and saints, was inspired to write books freely admonishing her social betters, both clergy and lay, to mend their ways." Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297), criticized the laxity and materialism of the contemporary Church. She was criticized for the unorthodox theology that lay beneath her poetry, and she was even threatened with excommunication. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was subjected to an Inquisition - like examination in doctrine, but ended by convincing the pope that he should restore the papacy to Rome. Thus Joan of Arc had illustrious predecessors in women who claimed direct inspiration from God. In one interesting respect, however, Joan was strikingly different from the other mystics. Hildegarde suffered protracted bouts of illness and may have had a functional nervous disorder. Elizabeth was delicate and often fell into trances in which she lost consciousness of her surroundings. Mechthild lived a long life, but in constant ill-health, while Catherine, a severe ascetic, died exhausted at the age of thirty-three.

Many other mystics were subject to physical or nervous maladies. In marked contrast, Joan was strong and healthy, readily bearing hardship, recuperating quickly from wounds, and impressing soldiers with her endurance. James Darmesteter ("Joan of Arc in England", ENGLISH STUDIES: BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS, FREEPORT, NY 1896 REPRINTED 1972) speaks of the conversion of England to the cult of Joan: for two centuries she was considered a witch, for a third she became a heroine and finally a saint. To later historians, the veritable excellence of the Maid was revealed at Rouen, not at Rheims: " Never, from the foundation of the earth, was there such a trial, if it were laid open in all its beauty of defense, and all its hellishness of attack.

O child of France, shepherdess, peasant girl, trodden under foot by all around thee, how I honor thy flashing intellect, quick as God's lightning and true as God's lightning to its mark, that ran before France and laggard Europe by many a century." Joan is in history what Jesus is in sacred history; and none the less divine because she knew herself to be a mere mortal woman; more utterly abandoned, since neither Magdalene nor Mary wept beneath her cross, since, even more than He, she died surrounded by hate and insult beyond measure. Behold her, most innocent, so free of all bitterness, accepting the cup without a word, never casting at her king the cry of reproach and anguish "Why hast thou forsaken me ? " To me, a Jew, the stake of Rouen appears loftier than the cross of Calvary. The night of the Mount of Olives loomed again, fourteen centuries later, in the poor little church of Compiegne, but it was suffered with how sweet a sadness, how pure a resignation ! A few days before she was taken, says the old chronicle, the little children of the village clustered round her as she leaned against a pillar of the church.

She said to them: " My little ones, I am betrayed, and soon I shall be handed over to the death. I entreat you therefore, pray to God for me; for never more shall I render service to the King, neither to the noble realm of France." This ideal divinity of the Maid, is true Imitation of Christ. Perhaps Joan of Arc is unfitted to make the heroine of a poem: how should the author interpret her thoughts ? There are souls so far above the range of humanity, soaring so out of reach of the noblest imaginations, that it is a vain temerity in a poet to attempt to touch them. History alone can attain their level. No poet has added to the words of Christ. No poet will add to the speech of Joan. Pg. 53-55 John Richard Green says: "In putting Joan to death the Duke of Bedford "terminated the English ascendancy in France. Had she returned home with her parents from the coronation at Rheims, had she escaped from prison, or even had she been pardoned by her judges, it had been different. She would have become the heroine of romance instead of the heroine of history.

Death was her triumph, and from the ashes of her execution - pile at Rouen arose the regenerated liberty of France. Although, in compassion to "the weakness of her womanhood, the full truth, the "terrible but necessary end to her mission, was never clearly revealed to herself until it was about to be realized, yet it had been marked out from the beginning. The two Saints, her 'Voices', St. Catherine and St. Margaret, were both of them Virgins and Martyrs. To Orleans they promised deliverance, to Charles they promised that he should be crowned Icing at Rheims; but for Joan they had no promise save this - that at the end, after a great victory, they would conduct her into Paradise." P.58 Let her remain therefore our Sybil of history, an emblem of the past and an augury of the future. Let France re - make herself in the image of Joan of Arc. A nation lives by a book or a life: a book which teaches it what it ought to do; a life which shows it what it may become. We have lost our faith in the Book; may the life still abide with us!

Now that the national conscience is re - born in a great effort towards a wide, wise, unsectarian and universal education, may the life of Joan of Arc to every Frenchman and every Frenchman be something of the living lesson which the life of Jesus and Mary is to every Catholic. Pg. 69 Quotations of Joan collected from her 1431 trial and 1456 retrial. QUOTATIONS INVOLVING JOAN'S VOICES AND INSPIRATIONS My mother had told me that my father often dreamed that I would run away with a band of soldiers. That was more than two years after I first heard the voices. She told me that he had said to my brothers, "If I believed that the thing I have dreamed about her would come to pass, I would want you to drown her; and if you would not, I would drown her myself." But since God had commanded me to go, I must do it. And since God had commanded it, had I had a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers, and had I been a king's daughter, I would have gone. It pleased God thus to act through a simple maid in order to turn back the King's enemies.

I must be with the King before mid-Lent, though I wear my legs to the knees on the road. For there is none in this world - neither kings, nor dukes, nor the King of Scotland's daughter, nor any other - who can restore the Kingdom of France. Nor is there any succor for it but from me. Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after! Voices, inspirations and prophecies Joan of Arc, horoscope for birth date 6 January 1413 Jul.Cal. (15 Jan 1413 greg.), born in Domrémy la Pucelle, with Astrodatabank biography - Astro-Databank add Joan of Arc Alternative rectified time to 'my astro' Biography French saint and savior who is known as the Maid of Orleans or La Pucelle D'Orleans, a national heroine and a history phenomena. A peasant girl, she was the daughter of a plowman and tenant farmer.

Inspired by her visions and voices, she led the French armies to momentous victory, marking a turning point of the Hundred Year's War. Her victory at Orleans in 1429 opened the way for the coronation of Charles VII at Reims. Joan said that she heard the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret, who divinely inspired and instructed her. The French crown was in dispute between the Dauphin, Charles, son and heir of the Valois king, Charles VI, and the English king, Henry VI. Charles cause seemed hopeless at the end of 1427 as he was not yet crowned five years after his father's death. Reims, the city where coronations were customarily held, was held by his enemies. Domremy was on the frontier and, in 5/1428, led by her voices, Joan put on men's clothes and traveled to Vaucouleurs where she asked the Captain of the garrison to see the Dauphin. She was refused and sent home but, in 1/1429 she went again.

Charles' advisors agreed to give her an audience so she went on to Chinon, reaching it in late February. He kept her waiting two days then concealed himself among his couriers. She went directly to him and said she wished to go to battle and would have him crowned. In 1429, she set off for Orleans with several hundred troops on April 27. On May 4 they took the fort, with another battle on May 6, and one on May 7 in which she was wounded. When the armies met on June 18, she had a great victory over the English. Charles was crowned with Joan present, a coronation held on 7/17/1429. Charles left Reims July 20, traveling through his country in a celebratory parade for a month. Joan had more battles and sorties, attacking Paris 9/8/1429, where she was wounded and routed. In late December 1429, King Charles ennobled her and her family. During a siege of 5/23/1430, Joan was unhorsed and when she could not remount, was captured by the Bergundians.

As Charles was working toward a truce with the Duke of Bergundy, he made no attempt to save her. Joan was tried as a heretic with opening statements on 1/13/1431. She appeared a dozen times at interrogations between February 21 and March 24. As she refused to promise to not attempt escape, she was often put in irons in the cold dungeon. The original 70 charges were reduced to 12 and, in May, she became very sick in prison. Thinking herself near death, she begged for the last rites of the church. On May 29, the Judges agreed to turn her over to secular officials. The following day she was allowed to hear a Mass before she was taken to the stake and burned to death on 05/30/1431, Rouen, France. For this quote, and the entire letter from which it is taken, see Paine's "Joan of Arc: Maid of France", Vol. I, p. 353 [the letter runs from p.

352 – 358) "Her childhood was spent among the forests and strawberry-covered fields of the Meuse river valley, far from the northern regions where the political situation had become increasingly troubled. The throne at that time was occupied by Charles VI de Valois (aka Charles "the Mad"), whose frequent delusional periods rendered him unfit to govern. The monarchy had therefore been placed in the hands of several members of the Royal family (the Dukes of Orléans, Burgundy [Bourgogne], Berri, and Bourbon, plus Queen Isabel), and this warm extended family had become embroiled in an ugly civil war after Duke Louis of Orléans was assassinated on the orders of his cousin Duke Jean-sans-Peur de Burgundy in 1407. France would henceforth be divided between the Orléanist (or Armagnac) faction and their Burgundian rivals. In May 1413, when Jehanne was still a baby, the conflict produced the Cabochien Revolt in Paris.

For several weeks the city was subjected to a violent uprising engineered by the Duke of Burgundy, led by a butcher named Simon Caboche, and egged on by a young clergyman and Burgundian partisan named Pierre Cauchon, whom Jehanne would later meet during a less pleasant period of her life." From the same website above, we find this chronology which also shows different years for her birth and for the death of Henry IV. I show the whole chronology as it would be useful in an attempt to rectify her chart. Events in the life of Joan of Arc (Jehanne Darc) Events in Jehanne's life Parallel events of the Hundred Years War 1410, 11, 12, or 13, Jan 6 - Born at Domremy to Jacques Darc and Isabelle Romée 1413 - Death of Henry IV, accession of Henry V; Armagnacs gain control of Paris *More specifically Mar 20 - England's King Henry IV died of an epileptic seizure while praying at Westminster Abbey; he was succeeded by his son Henry V.

(AP, 3/20/97)(MWH, 1994) – [my italics – MB; this is unquestionably one year after Joan's birth.] 1415 ??

- Birth of her childhood friend, Hauviette 1415 - Henry V invades France 1415, Sept 23 - English forces capture Harfleur 1415, Oct 25 - The French army is crushed at the battle of Aginçourt 1417 - Henry V begins the conquest of Normandy; Jean-sans-Peur de Burgundy sets up a rival French government at Troyes 1418 - Jean-sans-Peur gains control of Paris; the Dauphin Charles flees south of the Loire 1419 - Assassination of Jean-sans-Peur at Montereau during a meeting with the Armagnacs; his successor, Philippe-le-Bon, allies himself with the English 1420 - Treaty of Troyes, allowing Henry V to marry Catherine, daughter of King Charles VI, and become king of France upon the latter's death 1422 - Death of Henry V and Charles VI, producing a disputed kingship between the infant Henry VI and the Dauphin Charles VII; John, Duke of Bedford, becomes Regent of France 1422-1429 - English make slow gains

 in Northern France 1424 (?), Midsummer - First hears her Voices 1428, May - Goes to Vaucouleurs 1428, July - Takes refuge at Neufchâteau; Domremy is raided Campaign against Vaucouleurs by Antoine and Jean du Vergny 1428, October 12 - The English begin the siege of Orleans 1429, Jan-Feb - Returns to Vaucouleurs 1429, February - Visit to Nancy, meets with Charles II de Lorraine 1429, Feb 12 - Battle of Rouvray ("Battle of the Herrings") 1429, Feb 23 - Leaves for Chinon 1429, Feb 24 - At St.

Urbain 1429, c. Feb 27 - At Auxerre 1429, c. March 1 - At Gien 1429, March 4-5 - At St. Catherine de Fierbois 1429, March 6 - Arrives at Chinon 1429, c. March 9 - Meets with Charles VII 1429, early-March - March 21 - Examined by the theologians at Poitiers 1429, March 22 - Dictates her first letter to the English 1429, late March-April - At Tours and Blois 1429, April 25 - Leaves for Orleans 1429, April 28 - Arrives outside of Orleans; her army returns to Blois to gather reinforcements.

1429, night of April 28-29 - Sleeps at Chéchy 1429, April 29 - Slips into Orleans 1429, April 30 - Consultation with the captains at Orleans; skirmish led by La Hire against the English in Saint Pouair; attempts by Jehanne to negotiate with the English 1429, May 1 - Dunois and d'Aulon set out for Blois; more attempts by Jehanne to negotiate / trade insults with the English 1429, May 2 - Inspects the English positions, hears Vespers at Orleans' cathedral 1429, May 3 - Arrival of the French garrisons from Gien, Montargis, Château Reynard and Châteaudun 1429, May 4 - Dunois returns to Orleans with a reinforced army and launches an assault on the English-held Bastille de Saint Loup; Jehanne shows up and evidently encourages the French to victory, capturing Saint Loup and opening the eastern road into Orleans 1429, May 5 - Since this was Ascension Day, Jehanne declares a truce in

 honor of the holy day; orders the prostitutes to be expelled from the army's camp; agrees to the attack planned for the next day; writes another letter to the English 1429, May 6 - French troops cross a pontoon bridge in preparation for an attack upon the Bastille de St.

Jean le Blanc; the English fall back to the Bastille des Augustins. Jehanne and La Hire join the French troops at this point and lead them against the English, capturing Les Augustins. Jehanne steps on a caltrop and is wounded in the foot; that night she predicts a more serious wound to be suffered on the next day. 1429, May 7 - The French assault the English-held Bastille des Tourelles from 7 in the morning until around 9 in the evening. Jehanne is wounded by an arrow between the shoulder and neck; eventually returns to the battle and encourages the troops to make a final assault in which Les Tourelles is finally taken. 1429, May 8 - The English offer battle; Jehanne refuses to attack out of regard for the Sabbath. The English fall back to Meung.

1429, May 10 - Travels from Orleans to Tours 1429, May 10-11 - At Tours to meet with Charles VII; meanwhile, an army under Dunois, Poton de Saintraille and the Maréchal de Sainte-Sévère launches an unsuccessful attack on the English fortress of Jargeau 1429, May 12-23 (?) - At Loches 1429, May 24 - June 6 (?) - At Selles-en-Berri 1429, June 6 - At Romorantin 1429, June 9-10 - At Orleans 1429, June 11-12 - Capture of Jargeau 1429, June 13-14 - Back at Orleans 1429, June 15 - At Meung-sur-Loire 1429, June 16-17 - Capture of Beaugency 1429, June 17 - Between Beaugency and Meung 1429, June 18 - Battle of Patay 1

429, June 19-24 - At Orleans, Sully, St Benoit, and Châteauneuf 1429, June 24-27 - At Gien 1429, June 27-29 (?) - In camp 1429, June 30 - Travels to Reims 1429, July 1,2 or 3 - Near Auxerre 1429, July 4 - At St Florentin 1429, July 5 - At St Phal 1429, July 5-11 - Near Troyes 1429, July 5-12 (?) - Entry into Troyes 1429, July 13-14 - At Bussy-Lettré 1429, July 14-15 - At Chalons-sur-Marne 1429, July 16 - At Sept-Saulx 1429, July 16-21 - At Reims for the coronation; Charles VII is crowned on July 17 1429, July 2

1 - At Cerbeuy 1429, July 22 - At Vailly 1429, July 23-38 - At Soissons 1429, July 29 - At Château-Thierry 1429, August 1 - At Montmirail-en-Brie 1429, August 2-5 - At Provins 1429, August 7 - At Coulommiers and Château-Thierry 1429, August 10 - At La Ferté Milon 1429, August 11 - At Crépy-en-Valois 1429, August 12 - At Lagny-le-Sec 1429, August 13 - At Dammartin and Thieux 1429, August 14 - At Baron and Montepilloy 1429, August 14-15 - Battle of Montepilloy 1429, August 16-17 - At Crépy-en-Valois 1429, August 18-23 - At

 Compiègne 1429, August 26 - September 8 - At St.

Denis and La Chapelle 1429, September 8 - Attack on Paris; Jehanne is wounded in the thigh while trying to locate a spot for her troops to cross Paris' inner ditch. 1429, September 9 - At La Chapelle and St. Denis 1429, September 10 and 13 - At St. Denis 1429, September 14-21 - At Lagny, Provins, Bray, Sens, Courtenay, Châteaurenard, Montargis, Gien 1429, October - At Meung-sur-Yèvre and Bourges 1429, October and early November - At St. Pierre-le-Moutier 1429, November 9 - At Moulins 1429, November 24 - Attack on La Charité-sur-Loire 1429, early December - At Meung-sur-Yèvre 1429, December 19 - At Orleans 1429, December 25 (?) - At Jargeau ?

1429, December 29 - Ennobled along with her family, given a coat of arms and surname "du Lys" 1430, March 3-28 - At Sully 1430, early April - At Lagny; battle of Lagny 1430, April 17-23 - At Melun 1430, late April - At Senlis, Compiègne, Berenglise, Ste Marguerite, Soissons, Crépy-en-Valois 1430, May 14-15 - At Compiègne and Pont l'Evêque 1430, May 18 (?) - At Soissons 1430, May 19(?) - 22 - At Crépy-en-Valois 1430, May 23 - At Compiègne; assault on Margny; Jehanne captured.

1430, May 23-25 - At Clairoix 1430, late May - July - Held prisoner at Beaulieu 1430, mid-July - mid-November - At Beaurevoir 1430, late November - At Arras, St Riquier, Drugy, and Le Crotoy 1430, December - At St Valéry, Eu, Dieppe, and Rouen.

1430, December 25 (?) - Held in a tower at Rouen, where she would stay until May 30 1431, January 3 - Transferred to the custody of Bishop Cauchon 1431, January 9 - Beginning of the 1st trial (Trial of Condemnation) 1431, February 21 - First public session of the trial 1431, March 10-17 - Closed sessions of testimony 1431, March 27 - Libellus read 1431, April 18 - Admonished to recant 1431, May 19 - Reading of the University of Paris' condemnation 1431, May 23 - Conclusion of the trial 1431, May 24 - Taken to a platform and threatened with execution; recants and is given the sentence of life in prison 1431, May 28 - Rejects her previous abjuration and accepts a death sentence.

1431, May 29 - The assessors vote to turn her over to secular justice 1431, May 30 – Execution (from what I found, 'In the middle of the morning'). (As an aside comment, many of you may have heard that transits continue to impact the birth chart even after the native's death - so here they go.) Related events after her death ----------- 1435, Sept 21 - Treaty of Arras between Charles VII and Philippe-le-Bon de Burgundy, effectively dooming the English cause 1436 - Paris surrenders to the French 1448 - Rouen taken by the French 1450 - English driven out of Normandy; the process of retrying Joan of Arc's case begins under the direction of Guillaume Bouillé 1450, March 4 & 5 - Preliminary witness depositions are taken, beginning with the testimony of Guillaume Manchon, one of the notaries at the original trial.

1452 - Joan of Arc's retrial process continues under Cardinal d'Estouteville and Inquisitor Jean Bréhal 1452, May 2 & 3 - Five witnesses questioned. 1452, May 8 - More testimony, with depositions from seventeen witnesses 1453 - English driven out of Guyenne; most historians consider this to be the end of the "Hundred Years War" 1455, June 11 - Pope Calixtus III authorizes Jehanne's mother, Isabelle, to open the suit 1455, November 7 - The opening session of the retrial ("Trial of Rehabilitation"), held at Notre Dame in Paris 1455, November through 1456, May - Witness testimony 1456, May 14 - The witness testimony is concluded 1456, May 30 - Hearings resumed 1456, June 2 - As no further evidence was submitted, the existing body of testimony was accepted into the record.

1456, June 5 - The counsel for the plaintiffs, Guillaume Prévosteau, submitted his documents to the tribunal 1456, June 10 - Final session during which all the various documents were collected. 1456, June 18 - The plaintiffs, in the form of Jehanne's brother Jean Darc, the family's lawyer, and the Promoter for the case, pay a visit to the commissioners, expressing the wish that the latter would speed up their final deliberations 1456, June 24 - Final call for any objections, with presentation of final evidence against Jehanne set for July 1 1456, July 1 - No one showed up. 1456, July 2 - The plaintiffs formally ask the judges to annul the original verdict and declare Jehanne innocent. 1456, July 7, beginning at the hour of 8 am - Public announcement of the judgment of the court, in which the original verdict is thrown out and Joan of Arc is declared innocent.

Related events in our own era ------- 1903, February - Formal proposal for canonization 1904, January - Pope Pius X awards her the title of "Venerable" 1909, April 11 - Beatification Domremy | Article about Domremy by The Free Dictionary Domremy | Article about Domremy by The Free Dictionary Also found in: Dictionary , Wikipedia . Domrémy-la-Pucelle (dôNrāmē`-lä-püsĕl`), village, Vosges dept., E France, in Lorraine, on the Meuse River. Joan of Arc was born (1412?) in the village. The house in which she was born is now a museum. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Write what you mean clearly and correctly. References in periodicals archive ? In this, she notably differs from her childhood peers in Domremy, who were "obedient to their parents and the priest; and as they grew up .

FOCUS: Low-priced bean sprouts, sweets sell well Aussi, inutile de revenir ici sur la longue et riche historiographie du mythe pour admettre que depuis le bucher de Rouen, l'heroine de Domremy a bien largement deborde le cadre strictement francais pour devenir un symbole au rayonnement universel dont la renommee s'etend jusque dans les contrees les plus reculees. Was Joan of Arc genetically male? The war had affected the sculptor deeply, and he wished to do something to give expression to what he felt, and as there was no subject in his country's history which appealed to him so forcibly as the rich and tragic life of the peasant girl of Domremy, he resolved to commemorate both by making an equestrian statue of the patriot martyr; representing her in all the simple pride of her pure maidenhood as she held the banner of her beloved France toward heaven, as the source from whence she believed the divine mandate had come that was to enable her to free her country from the invaders.

An iron maiden for Melbourne--the history and context of Emmanuel Fremiet's 1906 cast of Jeanne d'Arc The shepherd girl that had delivered France--she, from her dungeon, she, from her baiting at the stake, she, from her duel with fire--as she entered her last dream, saw Domremy, saw the fountain of Domremy, saw the pomp of forests in which her childhood had wandered. Grevel Lindop, General Editor. The Works of Thomas De Quincey By the time Joan of Arc was born, in 1412 in the village of Domremy in the region of Champagne, France had already been at war with the English for more than 70 years.

Question: In which village in north-eastern France was Joan of Arc born?
Answer: DOMREMY