1410s Births - Joan of Arc, Louis, Duke of Savoy, Antonio de Noli, Agnes Bernauer, Johannes Ockeghem, Piero Della Francesca (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Joan of Arc, Louis, Duke of Savoy, Antonio de Noli, Agnes Bernauer, Johannes Ockeghem, Piero della Francesca, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, William Dubh MacLeod, Qaitbay, Giorgio da Sebenico, James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, Johannes Mentelin, Wenceslaus I of Zator, Vladislav the Grammarian, Balthasar of aga, Cuacuauhtzin, Conrad Paumann, Justus van Gent, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Thomas Browne, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Johannes Fede, Thomas Spens, Nizam al-Din Yahya, Domenico Veneziano, Konrad IX the Black, Michael Critobulus, Diether von Isenburg, Albert van Ouwater, Thomas Vaughan, John Spalding, Vakhtang IV of Georgia, George Seton, 1st Lord Seton, Henry Abyngdon, Martin le Franc, Jean Jouffroy, William Worcester, John Plummer, Filippo Borromeo, Henry Long, Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy, Francesco Accolti, James Ormonde, Jan I of Opole, Ludwig Dringenberg, Francesco Solari. Excerpt: Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed The Maid of Orleans (French: , IPA: ca. 1412 - 30 May 1431) is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old. Twenty-five years after the execution, Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is - along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux - one of the patron saints of France. Joan asserted that she had visions from God that instructed her to recover her homeland from English domination...