HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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She was given a Medal of Valor and a job working for the King.
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They found out she was a girl, so they sent her home without any reward.
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She was captured by the English and burned at the stake.
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The French King traded her to the English in return for other prisoners.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by enemy forces, tried for witchcraft and burned at the stake at the age of 19. By the time she was canonized in 1920, Joan of Arc was considered one of history’s greatest martyrs, and the patron saint of France.
Detailed explanation-2: -On May 30, 1431, at Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the coronation, Joan of Arc claimed her mission was complete, although she continued to fight and inspire French forces. Her later campaign saw mixed results, and she was eventually captured by Anglo-Burgundian forces, sold to the English, and put on trial. She stood accused of heresy and wearing men’s clothes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in the Rouen marketplace on May 30, 1431. She was allowed to ask two clergymen to hold a crucifix in front of her body as she was burned. In order to ensure that Joan had died, the English raked back the coals over her body so that everyone could see that she had perished.
Detailed explanation-5: -Nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc, who claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine, was burned at the stake in 1431 for heresy by an English-dominated tribunal.