Joan began seeing visions at the age of thirteen, these visions had given her commands to, put the Dauphin on the throne and stop the siege at Orleans. In May of 1428, she left, on the commands of these voices, to see Robert Baudricort, commander for Charles the III, in Vaucouleurs. Baudricort did not respect her and her mission, sending her away.
Nearing the end of 1428, Joan's voices became urgent even threatening. She resisted them saying, "I am just a poor girl; I do not know how to ride or fight." The voices responded saying, "It is God who commands it." She decided to once again visit Vaucouleurs, leaving from Domremy in January, 1429.
Upon returning, Baudricort was still skeptical about Joan. On February 17th, she told of a great defeat that the French would suffer outside of Orleans, This occurred during the Battle of Herrings. Finally she was granted an audience with the king at Chinon.
She reached Chinon on March 6th; two days later she was granted presence with the king. Testing her, the king had disguised himself as one of the guests in attendance, but she at once saluted him without hesitation.
The La Tremoillie, a large presence at the court, believed her to be a crazy visionary. To prove her cause, she took the king aside and told him, a sign, told to her by her visions. This made him believe, half-halfheartedly, in her cause. Before she is allowed to be placed in the military, she is sent to Poitiers to be examined by bishops and doctors. After they had cleared her from being a heritic, she traveled back to Chinon, and is placed in the army. When given a sword, she denies it and sends men to an altar in the Chapel Ste-Catherine-de-Fierbois, saying that behind the altar, buried, there would be a sword. Discovering the sword, the men return it to her.
Joan left with the army, and reached Orleans on April 29, 1429. Her presence in Orleans gave moral to the French, and seemed to work miracles in the war. By May 8th English forts began to fall. She was injured in the battle, shot above her breast, moral began to falter, she immedately went back into the fight. The French took Le Tourelles, and stopped the English siege on Orleans. Allowing the few English troops left to leave, against the will of the French, because it was a Sunday.
Joan then persuades Charles VII to move north east to Reims, in an attempt to take the throne. Summons for the coronation are sent out, although they were still 150 miles away from Reims, in an area controlled by the English and Burgundians. Joan's "magic" continues to work as they pass through the gates of almost every town, unchallenged. One exception is Troyes, where the treaty was signed averting the French crown to the English. Although, residence changed their minds after an attack was launched. They reach Reims on July 16. The city opens its gates to Charles, and he was crowned on the 17th of July, a Sunday.
For ten months after this Joan continues to fight in the war against the English and Burgundians. With reasonable success, although Paris is one acception. Paris resists the assaults from Joan and her army. Joan is struck by misfortune, she falls from her horse in a skirmish with the Bergundians at Compiegne, and is captured. What should be done with her is hotly contested, although by January 1431, she is in English hands in Rouen, where she is questioned by France's deputy inquisitor. In March, she is placed on trial. Abandoned by the now King Charles VII, she is found guilty of heresy by the fact that after she contested she would never wear men's clothing again, she did in attempts to keep herself from being raped. She is burned at the stake for heresy on May 30, 1431.
Nearing the end of 1428, Joan's voices became urgent even threatening. She resisted them saying, "I am just a poor girl; I do not know how to ride or fight." The voices responded saying, "It is God who commands it." She decided to once again visit Vaucouleurs, leaving from Domremy in January, 1429.
Upon returning, Baudricort was still skeptical about Joan. On February 17th, she told of a great defeat that the French would suffer outside of Orleans, This occurred during the Battle of Herrings. Finally she was granted an audience with the king at Chinon.
She reached Chinon on March 6th; two days later she was granted presence with the king. Testing her, the king had disguised himself as one of the guests in attendance, but she at once saluted him without hesitation.
The La Tremoillie, a large presence at the court, believed her to be a crazy visionary. To prove her cause, she took the king aside and told him, a sign, told to her by her visions. This made him believe, half-halfheartedly, in her cause. Before she is allowed to be placed in the military, she is sent to Poitiers to be examined by bishops and doctors. After they had cleared her from being a heritic, she traveled back to Chinon, and is placed in the army. When given a sword, she denies it and sends men to an altar in the Chapel Ste-Catherine-de-Fierbois, saying that behind the altar, buried, there would be a sword. Discovering the sword, the men return it to her.
Joan left with the army, and reached Orleans on April 29, 1429. Her presence in Orleans gave moral to the French, and seemed to work miracles in the war. By May 8th English forts began to fall. She was injured in the battle, shot above her breast, moral began to falter, she immedately went back into the fight. The French took Le Tourelles, and stopped the English siege on Orleans. Allowing the few English troops left to leave, against the will of the French, because it was a Sunday.
Joan then persuades Charles VII to move north east to Reims, in an attempt to take the throne. Summons for the coronation are sent out, although they were still 150 miles away from Reims, in an area controlled by the English and Burgundians. Joan's "magic" continues to work as they pass through the gates of almost every town, unchallenged. One exception is Troyes, where the treaty was signed averting the French crown to the English. Although, residence changed their minds after an attack was launched. They reach Reims on July 16. The city opens its gates to Charles, and he was crowned on the 17th of July, a Sunday.
For ten months after this Joan continues to fight in the war against the English and Burgundians. With reasonable success, although Paris is one acception. Paris resists the assaults from Joan and her army. Joan is struck by misfortune, she falls from her horse in a skirmish with the Bergundians at Compiegne, and is captured. What should be done with her is hotly contested, although by January 1431, she is in English hands in Rouen, where she is questioned by France's deputy inquisitor. In March, she is placed on trial. Abandoned by the now King Charles VII, she is found guilty of heresy by the fact that after she contested she would never wear men's clothing again, she did in attempts to keep herself from being raped. She is burned at the stake for heresy on May 30, 1431.