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The Hundred Years War: Joan Of Arc

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The year was 1431. The country was France. The time was full of heresy and strife. Joan was just a normal girl, living her peasant life. Until she heard the voices. In her early teens, Jeanne d’Arc, now known as “Joan of Arc,” claimed to have heard voices from saints. Joan lived right in the midst of the Hundred Years War. These saints were telling her to save France and install Charles VII as their rightful king. She knew that her country was struggling with the burden of war, and the saints were encouraging her to do something about it. In 1428, at the age of sixteen, she left her simple farm and journeyed to seek an audience with Charles. His counselors refused to let her in, stating that she was just some silly girl spouting nonsense.
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To do this she had to cut her hair, and pretend to be a man because only men were able to have a place in the court. Charles believed so much in this “miracle” that he let her come to the army base, but the problem was she didn’t know much about warfare. Due to her the English had weakened by disease and the lack of war supplies that they withdrew from Orleans. Ten days later Charles VII was crowned king at Reins. Joan was captured by one of the English allies which later was sold to the English.

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I warn you, so that if God punishes you for it, I would have done my duty for telling you!’ May 30, 1431, at the age of nineteen, Johanne D’Arc was burned at the stake as a “relapsed heretic” (Gascoigne). Not only was D’Arc persecuted by the church, she was also persecuted by political figures (King Charles VII), the “sinners”, and the every day commoners. To many, Joan of Arc was perceived as a heretic who held power, though unofficial, of which women during that time period did not possess. Joan of Arc was a young naive woman, a triumphant military leader, and a dedicated follower of Christ.

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Joan of Arc was a simple peasant girl the youngest of five children born into a family of pious parents whom worshipped God in a in a village near the province of Lorraine, in a far off village known as Domremy. Joan having been born a peasant and in a village, not in a city had very little education and with there were being two different factions of the French people following the two different kings, Kings Charles VII and King Henry V. Even with Joan’s little education, she believed that King Charles VII should be king because she had been given messages from the visions received from the saints of Margeret, Catherine and Michael that Charles was the one true king chosen by God. At the age of thirteen Joan believed that she was chosen

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Later she divorced Louis because she did not love him and married Henry, Duke of Normandy, who soon became King Henry II of England, making her a queen again. After she helped her five sons rebel against their father because he tried to change their land holdings, he imprisoned her for 15

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She brought supplies and reinforcements that were needed and also inspired the French to win. Joan took the lead for several battles and on May 7 she was hit by an arrow. After getting hit by the arrow she took care of her wound and returned to the fight, and later the French won that battle. On May 8, the English retreated from Orleans and France won the war. In May 1430, while leading a military expedition against the remaining English soldiers in France, Bourguignon soldiers kidnapped Joan and sold her to the English, who tried her for heresy.

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She then decided to take a journey to Vaucouleurs in May 1428 and was rejected by Robert de Baudricourt. Joan got a small group of followers who believed her claims to be virgin and she was determined to save France. After the rejection by Baudricourt, she cut her hair, in the style that today is known as the “bob”, and dressed in men 's clothes to make an eleven day journey to Chinon. Chinon was the site of the Prince’s palace and also an enemy territory. At Chinon Joan had promised Charles of Valois that she would be there to watch him be crowned at Reims.

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In May of 1428, she went to Vaucouleurs to consult with a supporter of King Charles, Robert de Baudricourt. At first he refused to hear her, as she was just a peasant girl. However she was gaining support from villagers, so he agreed to send her to the Royal Court to meet with Charles. Joan dressed as a man and cropped her hair ready for the long journey to the site of Charles court.

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joan of Arc was born in 1412 in France. Most of her childhood was relatively uneventful, until in 1424, when she began having visions. In her visions, Saint Margaret, Saint Catherine, and Saint Michael told Joan that she needed to support King Charles VII and help rid France of the English. During the many battles of the Hundred Years War that were to come, despite her young age, Joan, a simple peasant girl, was instrumental in capturing Orleans. This accomplishment was immense, but she later went on to capture Rheims, Paris, and numerous other towns in an effort to free France from the English.

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St Joan of Arc Nickname:The maid of New Orleans Joan was born in 1412 Domremy, France and was the daughter of Jacques Arc who at the time was a farmer. The girl had no teachings in writing or even how to read but her mother was the one who gave her the knowledge about the catholic faith. She became intrigued into the faith and grew a love for the teachings of the bible. In later years her faith grew more and grew stronger, this is what lead her to hear the callings of Christ at the young age of only thirteen. God soon gave her the mission to save France and defeating their enemies to bring Charles ( Known as Charles of Valois) to the throne as the rightful king.

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Jeanne d’Arc, now commonly known as Joan of Arc, was born on the 6th of January 1412, in the town of Domrémy, located in the northeast of France . She was born into a peasant family, albeit a well off one, as well as a religious one, as her uncle was a priest. The Hundred Years’ War had been ongoing for the past six decades, which had taken its toll on the French economy and people. At thirteen years old, she began to hear voices in her head, urging her to aid the King of France, and by the age of 17, she was in the court of the Dauphin, dictating an ultimatum the King of England .

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Joan started her military career at the age of 16 by traveling to Vaucouleurs and convincing Robert de Baudricourt to allow her to have an audience with Charles.(New World Encyclopedia) On her journey to see Charles, in Chinon, she had cropped her hair and dressed as a man to pass through the enemy's territory. Joan , once meeting with Charles, asked him for an army so that she could aid in the war. Joan lead an army to Orleans to a battle that lasted from Oct 12, 1428, to May 8, 1429. During her battle, she was wounded but soon returned to the fight.(Britannica school) After they had taken most of Orleans, there was

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Later, at the age of thirteen she believed she was hearing voices from angels telling her to lead a French army to battle to save France. In the end, she was tried and found defying the orders of the court so she was burned at the stake on may 30, 1431 “Born around 1412, Jeanne d’Arc was the daughter of a tenant farmer, Jacques d’Arc. Her pious mother, Isabelle Romée, instilled in her a deep love for the Catholic Church and its teachings” (“Joan of Arc”). Joan of Arc’s family was not a family of wealth and had little money but she was raised with a deep love for the Catholic church and what it taught.

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She was born to an extremely religious family in Domremy, France. She did not go to school but was taught to be extremely devout. Joan was especially good at spinning, an activity that was quite common in the mid 15th century, and is said to have been a fast runner. She loved going to church and

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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc portrays the story of a young girl, Joan, who becomes a French war hero and religious martyr of the 15th century. As the story begins you see young Joan as she witnesses her sister’s murder by the English. You also see her “visions” that inspired her to lead the French in the battle against the English. After her success in defeating the English, Charles VII takes the throne and eventually Joan is captured by the English and executed for heresy.

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