How and why was Joan of Arc executed?

Answer 1

Joan of Arc was executed because the church considered her to be a heretic (she said she heard god) and that he told her to lead the French against the British. This rallied the French army and they did succeed but she was captured and she refused to repent and they cooked her like a steak.

In simple terms she could be taken as the French army's cheerleader since she did not have any real power - she just led them into battle.

Answer 2

She was burnt at the stake by the English for being a heretic.

The French Joan of Arc received messages from God to help her country overcome its enemies the English. The English king claimed that he also held a right to succeed as the French monarch. The French refuted it, and a war came out lasting over a century, although there were some peace periods in that time.

The English captured Joan of Arc. Joan told of her messages from God, which naturally scared the English into thinking they really were wrong. They tortured her until she would deny her claims. Not many people know this, but she actually did deny the claim, but then she recanted her denial and still went on telling them that it was God's Command. So they burnt her for it.

Of course, in the end, the French captured the English territory on the continent, and England was once again receded to the British Isles.

Joan of Arc, the heroic martyr, was declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 1920, five centuries after she died.

Answer 3

Joan Of Arc Execution

Answer 4

Joan of Arc was arrested and imprisoned for supposed heresy by claiming to have visions from God and St Catherine. When she refused to recant her staements about these visions she was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake , quite similiar to those who believed in witchcraft and sorcery. In other words they believed she did not have visions from God but was in league with the devil. We know, however not to long after her death the Churc apologized for their part in the wrongdoing of her death for religious but definitely also political reasons for the English were still strong compared to the French at the time of her life and did not wish to displease the English. There is also a legend concerning other women known to be maids of Orleans and were heroes for the French but when their usefulness was no longer needed or supposedly like Joan of Arc commit heresy they were either castigated against into seclusion or in Joan of Arc's case put to death. The case for Joan of Arc's pardon was so strong that eventually miracles through her intercession were done in her name and verified that in the sarly 20th century the CatholicChurch canonize her a saint.

Answer 5

she had some how managed to retake Paris
but her troops were less and exhausted
seeing the opportunity as a golden one
the Burgundians captured her in a kind of ambush
she was put in a prison and then executed by the British by burning her alive
they declared her a witch before doing so

it was the peak of the hundred years war which turned tables due to acts of Joan of arc
it was centuries later that she was declared a saint

Answer 6

Although Jeanne d'Arc is today deemed the bane of English forces and a great heroine of France during the Hundred Years War, who she was to her contemporaries was a spiritual leader of the forces who supported the sucession of the future King Charles VII.

At the time, France had been plunged into a severe sucession crisis that had pitted many members of the extended royal family against each other. When Jeanne came along, this dispute was centred around Charles, whom had assumed the title of Dauphin (heir to the throne); his distant cousin the Duke of Burgundy (in modern Belgium); and his even more distant cousin, the English King, Edward III.(His mother was the French princess Isabelle, whom has been made famous in modern times by the movie "Braveheart").

How Jeanne came into the picture was she came to court claiming she had spoken to God and was instructed to lead the Dauphin's forces and ensure he was crowned King of France. She was greeted with severe skepticism of course, but when she appeared in court and both identified the man presented to her as the Dauphin as an imposter, and picked an incognito Charles out of the watching crowd, her legend was born. She was first disptached by Charles to relieve his garrison that was under a months long siege by the English at Orleans. Within nine days Jeanne's forces broke the siege and several further victories ensued which ensured matters fell into place long enough for Charles to go through with the proper coronation proceedings to which brought a theoretical end to the dispute. Once this had occurred however, court and military intrigues bore up against Jeanne and her role in Charles' further consolidation of power began to lessen. It was only that winter after her great spring victories that Jeanne was captured by the forces of the Duke of Burgundy.

Now because the Duchy of Burgundy was not only the English Kingdom's primary trading partner but also had a similar interest in containing if not dethroning Charles, they had entered into a strategic alliance and despite having his own offences against Jeanne, the Duke ransommed Jeanne off to the English authorities in France to further foster the alliance. Well, once the English got ahold of her, all they really wanted was vengeance for the miseries she had inflicted upon them. Their spiritual leaders gathered and claimed God was really on the side of the English which automatically made everything Jeanne had claimed an offence against God, the punishment for which was always being burnt at the stake.

Prior to her execution, Jeanne did indeed recant all the claims she had made about having spoken to God, but it was only done so to end the systemic torture and rape her English jailers inflicted upon her (much had been made of her virginity being part of why she was "selected" by God and therefore the rapes were actually an officially sanctioned part of her scourging). That change of heart was completely repudiated when Jeanne, beaten until she was almost unrecognizable, was presented in public for her burning.

I guess in the end, what I'm trying to say is Jeanne was executed out of vengeance masked by the claim of heresy and overall, the process was a pretty horrific one.

Answer 7

she was burned at the stake- tied to large wooden pole and burned to death. but I can't remember exactly why. I think it had something to do with religion-the church