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Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk] ⓘ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Joan of Acre (April 1272 – 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. [2] The name " Acre " derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade .
Coat of arms of the d'Arc family before December 1429. Jacques (or Jacquot) d'Arc (sometimes spelled Darc, Dars, Tart, Tarc, Darx, or Day; [1] 1375–1431) [2] was a farmer from Domrémy, France, who was the father of the French military leader and Catholic saint Joan of Arc.
Joan of Arc at the coronation of Charles VII with her white flag In his adolescent years, Charles was noted for his bravery and flamboyant style of leadership. At one point after becoming Dauphin, he led an army against the English dressed in the red, white, and blue that represented his family; [ citation needed ] his heraldic device was a ...
One of five children in a peasant family in Domrémy, in north-eastern France, Joan was born in the year 1412. ... The Amazonian image of Joan of Arc in armor is perhaps the most recurrent one in ...
Isabelle Romée, also known as Isabelle de Vouthon and Isabelle d'Arc (1377–1458) and Ysabeau Romee, was the mother of Joan of Arc. She grew up in Vouthon-Bas and later married Jacques d'Arc . The couple moved to Domrémy , where they owned a farm consisting of about 50 acres (200,000 m 2 ) of land.
Joan (1379–1440)—Joan's son, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and her grandson, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, were leading supporters of the House of York. Edmund (1341–1402)—founder of the House of York. He had three children with Isabella of Castile: Edward (1373–1415)—killed at the Battle of Agincourt.
Jeanne's second husband, who was an ally of the English during the last phase of the Hundred Years War, received Joan of Arc as his prisoner following her capture by the Burgundians in May 1430. [3] She was held in his castle of Beaurevoir, close to Saint-Quentin. Jeanne was one of the three women in whose custody Joan was placed. [3]