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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.
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. Claiming to be ...
February 21 – The trial of Joan of Arc for heresy begins. March – Alexander I Aldea takes the throne of Wallachia with support from Alexander I of Moldavia. March 3 – Pope Eugene IV succeeds Pope Martin V, to become the 207th pope. May 30 – 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen.
Joan was tried by a pro-English court for heresy in 1431, where she was found guilty. At approximately the age of 19, was burnt at the stake, convicted of heresy.
Inspired by the Trinity, Pope Calixtus III authorizes the Rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (Manuscrit de Diane de Poitiers, XVIth century). 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 ...
After her capture by the English, Joan was delivered on January 3, 1431, to the French ecclesiastical justice. She was questioned by the Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, in order to confuse her about the religious justifications for her intervention in favor of the King of France. For two weeks, Joan maintained her arguments, while her ...
However, Joan's battle to reclaim Paris in September 1429 was unsuccessful. Joan of Arc was captured in 1430 and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431 [3] after a series of trials by the English, through the church, about her attire and because she said that God spoke to her and that she listened. Pizan spent the last of her days at the monastery ...
The best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where the condemned is bound to a large wooden stake and a fire lit beneath. A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering.