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The conviction of Joan of Arc in 1431 was posthumously investigated on appeal in the 1450s by Inquisitor-General Jean Bréhal at the request of Joan's surviving family—her mother Isabelle Romée and two of her brothers, Jean and Pierre. The appeal was authorized by Pope Callixtus III. The purpose of the retrial was to investigate whether the ...
The Trial of Joan of Arc was a 15th century legal proceeding against Joan of Arc, a French military leader under Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War. During the siege of Compiègne in 1430, she was captured by Burgundian forces and subsequently sold to their English allies.
[16] Joan of Arc's reported guides and visions did not include any from among the "holy transvestites." Nevertheless, the phenomenon must be important in context of Joan's trial and rehabilitation. Numerous legends and tales from Medieval Europe (and, likewise, elsewhere in the world) discuss transvestism and sex change (often miraculous).
Why pop culture’s love of Joan of Arc endures. Tacita Quinn, CNN. October 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM. More than 600 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object ...
France. Joan of Arc (1412–1431) was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV in his bull Divina disponente, [4] which concluded the canonization process that the Sacred Congregation of Rites instigated after a petition of 1869 of the French Catholic hierarchy.
Hobbins' best-known work is The Trial of Joan of Arc, which includes the first new translation of the transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial for fifty years. [1] He gave guest lectures on Joan of Arc at Bowling Green State University and Ohio Northern University in October 2007. [2] He has also written in The American Historical Review on Jean Gerson.
In 1452, while residing in Paris, he became the Inquisitor-general of France; and two years later, in 1455, was elected prior of the convent of Saint-Jacques of Paris and finally elected to review the trial of Joan of Arc's conviction. In 1474, he returned to his convent Saint-Louis d'Évreux, and became vicar of the master of the order.
Joan of Arc, Sick, Interrogated in Prison by the Cardinal of Winchester is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, created in 1824. The painting depicts Joan of Arc as she is being interrogated by Cardinal Henry Beaufort , of Winchester , despite the fact that the event never happened.