Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Fierbois, 27, 28, 349;
King refers her to clergy of Chinon, 274;
and Poitiers, xi, 242, 243, 274;
examined at Poitiers by prelates and theologians, xv, 242, 243–4,
245, 271, 282, 291, 306–8;
Archbishop of Rheims gives credence, xi;
King advised to accept her aid, 275, 282;
her confessor, Pasquerel, 284;
King gives her armour, 260, 275, 310;
provides page, 260;
steward, 308;
and military household, 59, 260, 399;
method of sleeping in war, 360;
horse presented by Duke d’Alençon, 30, 260, 274;
her horses, 51, 59, 78, 218, 226;
skilful horse-woman, 30;
King’s force entrusted to her, 31, 359;
her banners, 30, 31, 47, 48, 59, 89, 90, 93, 283, 349;
entry into Orleans and successful sally, 260–3, 267, 275, 284–5,
310–17;
attack on bridge fort, 32, 236, 262;
details of the relief of Orleans, 233–6, 246–7, 285–6;
letter to besiegers of Orleans, 235, 246–7, 286–7;
challenges copy, 12;
her wounds, 14, 32, 236, 262, 278, 288–9, 290, 297;
martial skill, xii, 272, 281, 294, 297;
Count Dunois believed her conduct in war more divine than human, 233,
235;
at Loches, 270;
homage of the people, 50, 270;
denies she allowed it, 342, 359;
celebrates Mass with army in sight of English, 249;
leads Dauphin’s army with success, xii;
urges attack on other towns, 237;
strikes English with terror, xvii, 253;
advises Dauphin, at Loches, to go quickly to Rheims, 238;
tells source of her counsel, 238–9;
conduct at assault on Jargeau, 276–8;
at Beaugency, 293;
at Patay, 293;
siege of Troyes, 239–40;
enters Troyes with the King, 49, 50, 292;
witnesses consecration of Charles at Rheims, xii, 44, 50, 51;
waives personal reward for taxes exemption of Domremy, 215;
at Château-Thierry, 50;
assault on Paris, 14, 361;
deposits her white armour in church of St. Denis, 29, 88–9, 361;
at Bourges, 318;
takes Saint Pierre-le-Moustier, saves pillage of church, 246, 318–19;
siege of La Charité, 53–4, 378;
alleged to have restored life to a child, 52;
appeal to King Charles to permit her return to rural life, xiv,
240–1;
a rival in Catherine de la Rochelle, 53;
continues to share national struggle by request, xiv;
her statesmanship, xiv;
advice neglected, xv;
great French nation self-centred her view, xv;
at Crespy, 57, 332;
leaves for relief of Compiègne, xvi, 57, 333;
ambushed in a sally, 333;
captured with her steward, 58, 334, 335;
by Burgundians, xvi, 4, 178;
taken to Jehan de Luxembourg, 334;
to Rouen, 334;
predicts preservation of Compiègne, 334;
taken to Marigny, 335;
letters announcing her capture, 335, 336;
rejoicings in Paris, 336;
Inquisition claims her as a heretic, 337;
and University of Paris, 337;
Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, acting for the Regent Bedford, offers a
King’s ransom, xviii, 337;
removed to Beaulieu Castle, 334, 337;
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