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Around January 6th, 1412, a girl named Joan was born in a small peasant village. Although her family lived a peasant life they lived comfortably until one day, at the age of 13, Joan started hearing voices in her head that was said to be from ‘saints’. The saints urged her to go to the dauphin (the oldest son of the king) and ask permission to lead the fight so she could save France from the English that had been fighting for around 60 years before her birth. The ‘saints’ also told her to help the king get crowned at the Reims which was in English’s hands. This war is known as the hundred year war. This war was started because Charles IV of France died and the dauphin, Charles, was meant to be crowned as king but the English didn’t agree. Joan attempted to …show more content…

Eventually he let her after testing if the saints actually helped her in times of need. She won battles in Troyes, Orleans and many more. She was victorious, but wasn’t needed after a while so was awarded and thanked her for her services. After that Charles the 7th was crowned king. Even though she didn’t have to, Joan was conceited and continued fighting for the dauphin but wasn’t as victorious and lucky which got her captured by the English during the war. She was so popular that they considered her as a valuable hostage. Since she had voices in her head, court didn’t trust her and thought she had performed witchcraft to win the war and thought the voices were coming from the devil. She was sentenced to be burned at the stake for these reasons. She was significant towards the medieval society because she won many fights while she was in charge and was tremendous help in the 100 years’ war, which made her well known. She was also popular because they were scared of her. They were scared of her as they thought she was going to use her powers on them. Although she helped the king get crowned King Charles did not help because he didn’t like to be told what to do by peasants. She died at the age of 19 in

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