Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France-died May 30, 1431, Rouen canonized feast day May 30 French national holiday, second Sunday in May), national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Joan of Arc, byname the Maid of Orléans, French Sainte Jeanne d’Arc or La Pucelle d’Orléans, (born c. Joan of Arc was captured by the English and their French collaborators and tried as a heretic. Convicted, she was burned to death on May 30, 1431, at age 19. Few witnesses of her death seem to have doubted her salvation, and Pope Calixtus III annulled her sentence in 1455–56.
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