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Joan of Arc in a decorated initial, a miniature probably made in the late 19th century, now in the French National ArchivesImage: Unknown · Public domainculture · Europe
Joan of Arc dies at the stake in Rouen
Two years after she had helped lift the siege of Orléans and seen Charles VII crowned at Reims, Joan of Arc was a prisoner of the English. Captured by Burgundian troops in 1430 and handed over to their English allies, she was tried at Rouen by a church court led by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, a supporter of the English cause, on charges that included heresy. Worn down by months of questioning, she signed a recantation, but within days she had taken back her words and returned to wearing men’s clothes. The court declared her a relapsed heretic, and on 30 May 1431, aged about 19, she was burned in the old market square of Rouen. A later church inquiry overturned the verdict in 1456, and in 1920 she was made a saint, with 30 May as her feast day.
Source: Britannica: Saint Joan of Arc ↗
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