1431: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy

[Peter1469]

1431: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy

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.

Rouen is a pretty city.

In May 1430, the Burgundians laid siege to Compiegne, and Joan stole into the town under the cover of darkness to aid in its defense. On May 23, while leading a sortie against the Burgundians, she was captured. The Burgundians sold her to the English, and in March 1431 she went on trial before ecclesiastical authorities in Rouen on charges of heresy. Her most serious crime, according to the tribunal, was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. After refusing to submit to the church, her sentence was read on May 24: She was to be turned over to secular authorities and executed. Reacting with horror to the pronouncement, Joan agreed to recant and was condemned instead to perpetual imprisonment.
Ordered to put on women’s clothes, she obeyed, but a few days later the judges went to her cell and found her dressed again in male attire. Questioned, she told them that St. Catherine and St. Margaret had reproached her for giving in to the church against their will. She was found to be a relapsed heretic and on May 29 ordered handed over to secular officials. On May 30, Joan, 19 years old, was burned at the stake at the Place du Vieux-Marche in Rouen. Before the pyre was lit, she instructed a priest to hold high a crucifix for her to see and to shout out prayers loud enough to be heard above the roar of the flames.
As a source of military inspiration, Joan of Arc helped turn the Hundred Years' War firmly in France’s favor. By 1453, Charles VII had reconquered all of France except for Calais, which the English relinquished in 1558. In 1920, Joan of Arc, one of the great heroes of French history, was recognized as a Christian saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Her feast day is May 30.

I am attaching a pic of a gold plated statue of Joan of Arc that stands in the French Quarter / French Market district, New Orleans, Louisiana- a gift from Orleans, France to its sister city.
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[FindersKeepers]

She is a legend to be sure.

Was she a trans in a time when being a trans was a sin?

[stjames1_53]

She is a legend to be sure.

Was she a trans in a time when being a trans was a sin?

No, she was a good leader for the warrior class, the King of France feared she would lay siege against him.

[Peter1469]

She is a legend to be sure.

Was she a trans in a time when being a trans was a sin?

I don't think there is any evidence to suggest that. She was what we would call a Tomboy with a mission from God. I is possible she was a virgin until she was raped by the English after her capture.

[nathanbforrest45]

I went to St Joan of Arc Catholic School in Asheville NC as a child. She was certainly a hero to those nuns. Both the school and the nuns are now gone although there is still a St Joan of Arc Catholic Church there.