Joan of Arc

Peasant visionary who turned the Hundred Years' War, burned at nineteen and canonized in 1920.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Claimed divine command to crown the dauphin, and raised the siege of Orléans in 1429.
• Captured at Compiègne, tried by a pro-English church court, and burned at Rouen in 1431.
• The verdict was annulled twenty-five years later; she became a saint in 1920.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: c. 1412 – 1431