Helen Castor - Joan of Arc: A History
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval worldas never told before.
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castors Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no onenot Joan herself, nor the people around herprinces, bishops, soldiers, or peasantsknew what would happen next.
Adding complexity, depth, and fresh insight into Joans life, and placing her actions in the context of the larger political and religious conflicts of fifteenth century France, Joan of Arc: A History is history at its finest and a surprising new portrait of this remarkable woman.
Joan of Arc: A History features an 8-page color insert.
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A History
HELEN CASTOR
For Luca
At that time the English would sometimes take one fortress from the Armagnacs in the morning and lose two in the evening. So this war, accursed of God, went on.
AN ANONYMOUS CITIZEN OF PARIS , 1423
You men of England, who have no right in this kingdom of France, the king of heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid, to abandon your strongholds and go back to your own country. If not, I will make a war-cry that will be remembered forever.
JOAN OF ARC to the English at Orlans, 5 May 1429
Charles VI, the Well-Beloved, king of France
His uncles:
Jean, duke of Berry
Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy
His wife:
Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of France
Among their children:
Louis of Guienne, dauphin of France
Jean of Touraine, dauphin of France
Catherine of Valois, queen of England
Charles, dauphin of France, later King Charles VII
Louis, duke of Orlans, brother of King Charles VI
Among his children:
Charles, duke of Orlans
Philippe, count of Vertus
Jean, Bastard of Orlans, later count of Dunois
Bernard, count of Armagnac
Louis, duke of Anjou, titular king of Sicily and Jerusalem
His wife:
Yolande of Aragon, duchess of Anjou, titular queen of Sicily and Jerusalem
Among their children:
Louis, duke of Anjou
Ren, duke of Bar and Lorraine, later duke of Anjou
Marie of Anjou, queen of France
Charles of Anjou
Jean, duke of Alenon
Jean dHarcourt, count of Aumle
Charles, count of Clermont, later duke of Bourbon
John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, son of Philip the Bold and cousin of King Charles VI
His brothers:
Anthony, duke of Brabant
Philip, count of Nevers
His wife:
Margaret of Bavaria, duchess of Burgundy
Among their children:
Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy
Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford
Margaret of Burgundy, countess of Richemont
Agnes of Burgundy, countess of Clermont
Jean de Luxembourg, count of Ligny
His sister:
Jacquetta de Luxembourg, duchess of Bedford
Henry V, king of England
His brothers:
Thomas, duke of Clarence
John, duke of Bedford
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester
His uncle:
Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, cardinal of England
His wife:
Catherine of Valois, queen of England
Their son:
Henry VI, king of England
Thomas Montagu, earl of Salisbury
William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk
Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick
Thomas, Lord Scales
John, Lord Talbot, later earl of Shrewsbury
Sir John Fastolf, captain
John Stewart, earl of Buchan
Archibald Douglas, earl of Douglas, later duke of Touraine
His son:
Archibald Douglas, earl of Wigtown
Sir John Stewart of Darnley, captain
Tanguy du Chtel, counsellor
Robert le Maon, counsellor
Jean Louvet, counsellor
Georges de La Trmoille, counsellor
tienne de Vignolles, known as La Hire, captain
Ambroise de Lor, captain
Poton de Xaintrailles, captain
Raoul de Gaucourt, captain
Gilles de Rais, captain
Jean Gerson, theologian
Jacques Glu, archbishop of Embrun
Regnault de Chartres, archbishop of Reims
Jean de La Trmoille, counsellor
Hugues de Lannoy, counsellor
Perrinet Gressart, captain
Pierre Cauchon, theologian, later bishop of Beauvais, then of Lisieux
Louis de Luxembourg, bishop of Throuanne, brother of Jean de Luxembourg
William, count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland
His daughter:
Jacqueline, countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland
John, duke of Brittany
His brother:
Arthur, count of Richemont
Cardinal Niccol Albergati
After Louis X of France died suddenly in 1316, his queen gave birth to a son, Jean I, who lived for just five days. The kings only remaining child was his four-year-old daughter by his first wife. That marriage had been annulled on suspicion of her adultery. Both his daughters young age and the question marks over her parentage made her a less than ideal heir to the throne, and the crown was taken instead by Louiss brother, Philippe V. When he too died without sons, the precedent of his own case was used to secure the succession of his brother, Charles IV, rather than one of his daughters. When Charles then also died leaving only daughters, the crown passed to his male cousin, Philippe VI, beginning the line of Valois succession.
But Edward III of England, the son of Charles IVs sister Isabella, disputed the developing custom that the crown could not be inherited by or through a woman, and claimed that the French throne was rightfully his. This was the basis on which he began what was later named the Hundred Years War, winning great victories at Sluys in 1340, Crcy in 1346 and Poitiers in 1356. It was also the basis on which Edwards great-grandson Henry V sought to emulate his military success in France and to secure the French crown for himself.
In early fifteenth-century France, meanwhile, the combination of these fourteenth-century precedents with the urgent need to invalidate the English claim to the French throne produced the enduring myth that female royal succession was forbidden by an ancient Salic Law.
In the firmament of history, Joan of Arc is a massive star. Her light shines brighter than that of any other figure of her time and place. Her story is unique, and at the same time universal in its reach. She is, famously, a protean icon: a hero to nationalists, monarchists, liberals, socialists, the right, the left, Catholics, Protestants, traditionalists, feminists, Vichy and the Resistance. She is a recurring motif, a theme replayed in art, literature, music and film. And the process of recounting her story and making her myth began from the moment she stepped into public view; she was as much an object of fascination and a subject of impassioned argument during her short life as she has been ever since.
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