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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.
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.
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.
One of five children in a peasant family in Domrémy, in north-eastern France, Joan was born in the year 1412. Experiencing visions from a young age, Joan believed she was guided by God to save ...
Her given name at birth is also sometimes written as "Jeanneton" [4] [5] or "Jeannette", with Joan of Arc possibly having removed the diminutive suffix -eton or -ette in her teenage years. [6] The surname of Arc is a translation of d'Arc, which itself is a nineteenth-century French approximation of her father's name.
Clotilde Forgeot d'Arc, who claims to be Pierre's direct descendant, played Joan in the 2022 celebration in Orléans commemorating Joan's liberation of the city. [5] However, her lineage is disputed. Genealogist Michel de Sachy de Fourdrinoy wrote in the October 1973 Bulletin de l' Alliance française : "there is no longer any known descendants ...
Joan of Arc drawing by Clément de Fauquembergue, 1429. The artist never saw Joan. [1] There are a number of revisionist theories about Joan of Arc which contradict the established account of her life. These include the theories she was an illegitimate royal child; that she was not burned at the stake; that most of her story is a fabrication ...
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.