Joan of Arc — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Joan of Arc — War leader of the Hundred Years’ War, burned at Rouen in 1431

The daughter of well-off peasants from a village on the Meuse, she said she was sent to have the dauphin crowned and drive out the English. She raised a siege and led a king to Reims, was captured, sold, tried by university men and burned at nineteen. A second trial annulled the first twenty-five years later. (Editorial synthesis)

Joan of Arc was born around 1412 (Julian calendar). (source: Archives nationales)

Joan of Arc was born in Domrémy. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Joan of Arc died on 30 May 1431 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Joan of Arc died in Rouen. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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