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Following these spectacular military successes, Joan then led French forces northwards through English held territory to Reims where Charles was formally coronated.

Following these spectacular military successes, Joan then led French forces northwards through English held territory to Reims where Charles was formally coronated.

== Trial ==

==Capture, trial, and execution==

''As regards the official record of the trial, which, so far as the Latin version goes, seems to be preserved entire, we may probably trust its accuracy in all that relates to the questions asked and the answers returned by the prisoner. These answers are in every way favourable to Joan. Her simplicity, piety, and good sense appear at every turn, despite the attempts of the judges to confuse her.'' <ref> [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08409c.htm  Joan of Arc]</ref>

In the Spring of 1430, Joan was captured at the town of Compiegne while leading troops attempting to defend against an English seige. She was held for much of the remainder of that year by her Burgundian captors, but then was sold to the English after which she was transferred to Rouen where she was put on trial in proceedings governed by the Inquisition.<ref>Years after the trial of condemnation, in testimony during the rehabilitation proceedings, Guillaume Manchon, the chief notary at the 1431 Trial, testified that in spite of pressures exereted upon him and his assistants to alter the court records to Joan's disadvantage, he and other witnesses maintained that record, including the Latin translation of Thomas de Courcelles, was a reliable account of what had happened at the Trial.

Trial of condemnation lasted from February 21st until May 23rd, 1431. She was burnt at the stake in [[Rouen]]'s market square, having been sold to the English by the French. She has since become a French national icon and representative of French steadfastness in times of war.

''As regards the official record of the trial, which, so far as the Latin version goes, seems to be preserved entire, we may probably trust its accuracy in all that relates to the questions asked and the answers returned by the prisoner. These answers are in every way favourable to Joan. Her simplicity, piety, and good sense appear at every turn, despite the attempts of the judges to confuse her.'' (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08409c.htm  Joan of Arc)</ref>

 

After a preliminary inquiry, which was part of Inquisitorial proceedings, the actual trial began in February of 1431, lasting some three months. Following this, after being threatened with immediate burning at the stake, Joan signed an abjuration, though there is considerable doubt that she knew what she was signing since she was illiterate and, in fact, another document may have been substituted for the one she signed. Shortly thereafter, in obedience to her voices, she recanted the abjuration. By the rules of the Inquisition, this made her a relapsed heretic and she was then burnt at the stake in [[Rouen]]'s market square.

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