[Footnote 335: _Et quod aberet in commendam: illud regnum_, _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 456 (evidence of Bertrand de Poulengy).] Doubtless the title Messire, in the sense in which she employed it, sounded strange and obscure, since Sire Robert, failing to understand it, asked: "Who is Messire?" "The King of Heaven," the damsel answered. She had made use of another term, concerning which, as far as we know, Sire Robert made no remark; and yet it is suggestive.[336] [Footnote 336: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 456.] That word _commande_ employed in matters connected with inheritance signified something given in trust.[337] If the King received the kingdom _en commande_ he would merely hold it in trust. Thus the maid's utterance agreed with the views of the most pious concerning Our Lord's government of kingdoms. By herself she could not have happened on the word or the idea; she had obviously been instructed by one of those churchmen whose influence we have discerned already[338] in the Lorraine prophecy, but the trace of whom has completely vanished. [Footnote 337: See La Curne and Godefroy for the word _commande_. Durand de Maillane, _Dictionnaire de droit canonique_, 1770, vol. i, pp. 567 _et seq._] [Footnote 338: See _ante_, p. 59, _post_, pp. 177, 178.] Touching things spiritual Jeanne held converse with several priests; among others with Messire Arnolin, of Gondrecourt-le-Chateau, and Messire Dominique Jacob, priest of Moutier-sur-Saulx, who was her confessor.[339] It is a pity we do not know what these ecclesiastics thought of the insatiable cruelty of the English, of the pride of my Lord Duke of Burgundy, of the misfortunes of the Dauphin, and whether they did not hope that one day Our Lord Jesus Christ at the prayer of the common folk would condescend to grant the kingdom _en commande_ to Charles, son of Charles. It was possibly from one of these that Jeanne derived her theocratic ideas.[340] [Footnote 339: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 392, 393, 458, 459.] [Footnote 340: As for Nicolas de Vouthon, priest of the Abbey of Cheminon, what is stated concerning him in the evidence of the 2nd and 3rd November, 1476, seems improbable. _Trial_, vol. v, p. 252. E. de Bouteiller and G. de Braux, _Nouvelles recherches sur la famille de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. xviii _et seq._, 9.]