JOAN OF ARC

Introduction

Joan of Arc ( January 6 of 1412 - May 30 of 1431 ) , also known as the Maid of Orleans was a heroine, military and holy French . Her feast is celebrated on the anniversary of her death, as is tradition in the Catholic Church on May 30 . She was born in Domremy , a small town situated in the Vosges department in the region of Lorraine , France , and with 17 years headed the French royal army. Convinced King Charles VII to expel the English from France and he gave him authority over her army in the siege of Orleans , the battle of Patay and other clashes in 1429 and 1430 . These campaigns revitalized the faction of Charles VII during the Hundred Years War and allowed the monarch's coronation. This law remained in force until about one hundred years. She was later capture by the Burgundians and handed over to the British. The clerics condemned for heresy and Duke John of Bedford 's burned alive in Rouen . Most of the facts about her life are based on the records of that process but, somehow, are deprived of credit because, according to several witnesses in the trial were subject to a multitude of corrections by Bishop Cauchon , as well as the introduction of false data. Among these witnesses was the official scribe, designated only by Cauchon, who says that sometimes had secretaries hidden behind the curtains of the room waiting for instructions to delete or add data to the minutes.

Joan of Arc is one of those great characters, who come straight to the heart. Daughter of peasants, of intense spiritual life, was fully involved in the tumultuous events of the French soldiers of the early fifteenth century (Shaw, 2001, 90-110).

Her Upbringing

Born into a wealthy farming family, her childhood was spent during the bloody conflict framed in the Hundred Years War that pitted the Dauphin Charles, eldest son of Charles VI of France, Henry VI of England for the French throne, which led to the occupation of much of northern France by the English and Burgundian troops. At thirteen, Joan confessed to have seen St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret and stated that their voices exhorted her to live a devout and pious. A few years later, she felt to a mission that seemed to reach an illiterate peasant, leading the French army, the dauphin crowned king in Rheims and expel the British from the country. In 1428, she traveled to Vaucouleurs with the intention to join the troops of Prince Charles, but was rejected. A few months later, the siege of Orleans by the English exacerbated the delicate situation in France and forced the dolphin to take refuge in Chinon, a town that Joan went with an escort provided by Robert Baudricourt to tell Carlos about the character of its mission. This, not without making her look by various theologians, finally agreed to entrust the command of an ...