Jeanne d’Arc, a peasant living in France, began hearing voices at age thirteen and was convinced it had been delivered by god to charge her with the duty of protecting France by leading an army against Britain in a long-standing war and instating its rightful king. Jeanne persuaded the crown prince Charles of Valois to consent to her leading a French army to the city of Orléans, where a historic victory over the English took place. Jeanne was captured by Anglo-Burgundian forces after meeting King Charles VII; she was tried for witchcraft and sacrilege. Born in 1412, Jeanne d’Arc or Joan of Arc from the village of Domrémy. She had not been privileged nor educated enough to read or write, but her mother instilled a deep love for the Catholic Church and its teachings. Around this time, France had been divided by conflict with England in the Hundred Years’ War which lasted precisely one hundred and sixteen years, which England had the upper hand. The peace treaty in 1420 disowned the French prince, Charles of Valois, with accusations of illegitimacy, and King Henry V was monarch of both England and France. Whilst England occupied northern France, many in Domrémy, were forced to vacate their homes with the threat of aggression. …show more content…
She effectively persuaded the local court that she should not be forced to consent to the match. In 1428, she arrived at Vaucouleurs and drew a small group of supporters. After being initially rebuffed by the magistrate, Robert de Baudricourt, she persevered with her group who thought her claims to be the virgin who was ordained to redeem France, as foretold by popular divination. After Baudricort yielded, Jeanne cropped her hair and outfitted herself in men’s clothes to make the eleven day voyage across enemy land to Chinon, site of the crown prince’s