why did the english burn joan of ark?

Question

as much infomation as you can post please. i'm very confused, also it's for my school project. for some reason i've got 2 different answers, want to see what you get. thanks xoxo

Answer 1

http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980501/SAINTS/STJOAN.HTM

This site is very good.

It was the English who burnt her. She was captured by the French who had sympathies for the English who turned her over to the English. She was then tried in an English religious court in France before being burnt as a witch. This site simply explains Joan's life and why she was hated so much.

Answer 2

Because she was judged to be a witch.

".... She however continued to fight with a small troop and was first betrayed by the Parisians before being captured by Burgundian troops before the town of Compiègne in May 1430.

Joan was then handed over to the English occupant who decided to have her judged as a witch by a French court so as to cast discredit on the crowning of Charles. The trial, headed by Bishop Cauchon, took place behind closed doors in Rouen between January 9th and March 28th 1431 and Joan was sentenced to be burnt at the stake after she refused to submit to the authority of the Church and to admit that the voice she heard had simply been the fruit of her imagination. "

Answer 3

No-one *really* thought that Joan of Arc was a witch. However, the English needed a reason to get rid of her, as she was such a powerful symbol for the French, and to have her charged with heresy was the easiest way of doing it (if they had just killed her she would have been a martyr).

So, she was burned for being a witch; but the reason this happened was that the English needed to bump her off without turning her into a martyr.

Answer 4

2 start off, she was captured by the Burgundians (French people who supported the English in the Hundred Years War) and her own sold her 2 the English. Now, when she claimed 2 hear voices telling her 2 go 2 battle, English tried her for heresy and was found guilty. Shortly following, she was burned @ the stake. That's about all I remember, hope it helps. I wish u good luck.

Answer 5

Dig deeper.A frenchman wrote a book that many believe the whole Joan d`Arc thing was a ruse.He proposes that she wasn`t burned,a hooker was executed in her place,the fact that the crowd was kept so far back,and her signature appears in a church record of her marriage several years later.And the birth records of her children.Happy hunting,start with The Straight Dope",a newspaper collumn in Chicago,and yes,they do have a website.

Answer 6

The French burnt Joan of Ark on charges of witchcraft, though it was really because she was becoming to powerful.

Answer 7

Melissa
this would be a good question to answer using discussion. Your info leads to two answers (English or French). Look at a simple format eg
who was she, what did she do, why was it good/bad (points of view), where/how was she caught, then the tricky bit - who burnt her? Lots of good images (paintings) on the web.

Good Luck

Answer 8

It was the French that burned J O A ! Watch the movie easier and quicker!
good luck

Answer 9

Saint Joan of Arc, in French, Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), called the Maid of Orléans, national heroine and patron saint of France, who united the nation at a critical hour and decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in France's favor.

Joan was born of peasant parentage in Domrémy (now Domrémy-la-Pucelle). When she was 13 years old, she believed she heard celestial voices. As they continued, sometimes accompanied by visions, she became convinced that they belonged to St. Michael and to the early martyrs St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Margaret. Early in 1429, during the Hundred Years' War, when the English were about to capture Orléans, the “voices” exhorted her to help the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France. Charles, because of both internal strife and the English claim to the throne of France, had not yet been crowned king. Joan succeeded in convincing him that she had a divine mission to save France. A board of theologians approved her claims, and she was given troops to command. Dressed in armor and carrying a white banner that represented God blessing the French royal emblem, the fleur-de-lis, she led the French to a decisive victory over the English. At the subsequent coronation of the Dauphin in the cathedral at Reims, she was given the place of honor beside the king.

Although Joan had united the French behind Charles and had put an end to English dreams of hegemony over France, Charles opposed any further campaigns against the English. Therefore, it was without royal support that Joan conducted (1430) a military operation against the English at Compiègne, near Paris. She was captured by Burgundian soldiers, who sold her to their English allies. The English then turned her over to an ecclesiastical court at Rouen to be tried for heresy and sorcery. After 14 months of interrogation, she was accused of wrongdoing in wearing masculine dress and of heresy for believing she was directly responsible to God rather than to the Roman Catholic church. The court condemned her to death, but she penitently confessed her errors, and the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Because she resumed masculine dress after returning to jail, she was condemned again—this time by a secular court—and, on May 30, 1431, Joan was burned at the stake in the Old Market Square at Rouen as a relapsed heretic.

Twenty-five years after her death, the church retried her case, and she was pronounced innocent. In 1920 she was canonized by Pope Benedict XV; her traditional feast day is May 30.

Answer 10

It's Joan of Arc, and they killed her because they decided she was a troublemaker. So you never know, the crazy person who claims they were sent by God, really might be!