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Joan of Arc

Upon the death of Charles IV, the last of three royal sons of Philip IV, two cousins claimed the crown of France. One of these cousins was Philip of Valois, the son of the king's brother Charles, and the other cousin was Edward III of England, whose mother was Isabella, Phillip IV's daughter. In 1337, Edward challenged Philip of Valois, by then King Philip IV, to trial by combat. Thus began the Hundred Years' War (Pernoud, p 2).
Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc, was born on January 6th around the year 1412, in the small village of Domremy to prosperous peasants Jacque and Isabelle d'Arc. Around the age of 12 she began having visions that she believed to be from God, these visions led to the liberation of her homeland from English dominance in the Hundred Years' War (Wikipedia, p 2).
Joan and her family lived in an isolated part of the northeastern territory of France which remained loyal to the French crown despite being surrounded by Burgundian lands.......

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