1431January–May 1431 · Rouen

Trial and burning of Joan of Arc

Half-timbered houses on Rouen's Old Market square, where Joan of Arc was burned in 1431 — Photo: Supercarwaar. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who had led French troops to relieve Orléans and seen Charles VII crowned, was captured in 1430 and handed to the English. In Rouen a church court loyal to them tried her for heresy, and on 30 May 1431 she was burned in the Old Market square, aged about 19. A retrial cleared her in 1456, and she was made a saint in 1920.

Sites

Site 1: Place du Vieux-MarchéA marker on the site of the pyre, beside the modern Church of St Joan of Arc.Map ↗
Site 2: Historial Jeanne d'ArcThe archbishop's palace where she was cleared in 1456, now a museum of her trials.Map ↗
Site 3: Tour Jeanne d'ArcKeep of Rouen castle, where she was shown the instruments of torture.Map ↗

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