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Joan of Arc, St

/dʒəʊn/
- 1. (c. 1412–31), French national heroine; known as the Maid of Orleans. She led the French armies against the English in the Hundred Years War, relieving besieged Orleans (1429) and ensuring that Charles VII could be crowned in previously occupied Reims. Captured by the Burgundians in 1430, she was handed over to the English, convicted of heresy, and burnt at the stake. She was canonized in 1920. Feast day, 30 May.
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Joan of Arc
French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
Joan of Arc is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. She was convicted and burnt at the stake as a heretic by the English, but her conviction was later overturned. She is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Joan was born to a peasant family at Domrémy in northeast France. Wikipedia
- Born: 1412, Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France
- Died: May 30, 1431, Rouen, France
- Parents: Isabelle Romée, Jacques d'Arc
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