Saint Joan of Arc timeline

Timeline of the Saint Joan of Arc

La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc from the Panthéon, Paris, France (Wikimedia Commons)

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• Dates of Feast Days will not align with the modern calendar, as the Julian calendar was in use in France until 1582 when the Gregorian calendar was adopted. For example, using today's Gregorian calendar, Easter Sunday, 1431 would be April 10, whereas at the time, under the Julian calendar, it was April 1.

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Summary of Joan's life

Saint Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in a small village in a French fief in eastern France along the Germanic border. Throughout her childhood, France was caught up in a civil war between supporters of the Duke of Burgundy, called Burgundians, and those of the Dauphin, or Prince, Charles, whose side was called the Armagnacs. When in 1415 the English king Henry V invaded France, the civil conflict turned into a deadly race for the throne of France. In 1420, the French King Charles VI turned over control of the Kingdom to Henry V as regent of France and his appointed successor, disinheriting the Dauphin. Upon the death of Charles VI, the Dauphin claimed the throne, while the English claimed it for the young son of Henry V, who had died shortly before., Joan's village remained loyal to the Dauphin. Located in the eastern region of Bar Mouvant (part of greater Lorraine), though isolated and away from major battles, the area was periodically raided and was a target of Burgundian ambitions. Her childhood was otherwise typical, happy, and uneventful.

When she was in her thirteenth year (i.e. age of 12), Joan began to hear and see Voices and Visions of Saints sent by God who by her sixteenth year, 1428, instructed her to "go to France" to save it from the English who later that year had laid a seige upon the Armagnac city of Orléans, which if it were to fall would likely have given most of France to the English. After months of rejection by the local French captain whom she told God had instructed her to go to the King of France, in February of 1429 the captain sent her with a small band of soldiers across enemy lands to to the French King's residence at Chinon in central France. There she managed to meet with the King, who ordered an examination of her by "Doctors," consisting of clerics, theologians and lawyers. Finding no wrong in her and nothing to contradict her claims that God had sent her to save France, the Doctors recommended that the King allow her to lead an army to Orléans, which had been under an English siege since the previous fall. In May of 1429 she arrived to Orléans, and despite attempts by the French military leaders to sideline her, she inserts herself into the battles and rallies the French troops. On the insisted upon immediate attacks upon English fortifications. She was injured by an arrow through her neck and shoulder, but pulled it out herself, got up early the next day and joined a battle. Sending her banner forward, the inspired the French soldiers who overwhelmed the English fortification. The English departed the next day.

Following the sudden reversal of fortunes, in June of 1429 the French went on the offensive and cleared out several English-held towns and fortifications. At Joan's insistence, the French King Charles VII marched into unfriendly lands towards the northeastern city of Reims where in July of 1429 he was sacramentally crowned King of France, which he had been unable to do since his father's death. Orléans and the crowning of the King fulfilled two of Joan's four prophesies of what she would accomplish and the only ones fulfilled in her lifetime. The other two would follow later in the liberation of Paris and the release of the Duke of Orléans from imprisonment in England.

Even before the crowing at Reims, the King's top ministers started negotiations with the Burgundians and the English in hopes of retrieving Paris diplomatically. However, Joan insisted upon taking Paris by force, and despite a month's delay to launch the operation and without a complete French commitment, Joan led an unsuccessful assault upon a Paris gate, was injured and ,retired for the night. The next day, the King ordered a retreat. A truce was enacted, which allowed for the English and Burgundians to entrench their hold upon northern France. Joan, meanwhile, insisted upon carrying on the offensive, but was instead given little support or arms and was allowed only to lead a small army to clear out hostile towns in the central France region. She relieves one town, but is repulsed at another. Isolated from the French leadership, she leads a small army of her own back to northeastern France to relieve the city of Compiègne which was under assault by Anglo-Burgundian forces. Outside the city, Joan is pulled from her horse and taken captive by the Burgundians, who ransomed her for a large sum to the English. The French make no offer for her, though one of her loyal captains attempted to rescue her.

Burgundian clerics at the University of Paris, meanwhile, prepared the ecclesiastical case against her and worked with the English to put her on trial for heresy, which begins ion February 21, 1431, Ash Wednesday, at the English administrative capital at Rouen in Normandy. Expecting the Trial to wrap up quickly, the Burgundian clerics are frustrated by Joan's deft and inspired responses to her questioning, and her refusal to admit to having done any wrong, Though held in a men's prison and chained to a bed at night, Joan remained defiant. It is not until May 24, 1431 that they are able to force, trick or gain -- it is unclear -- an admission of guilt, called an "abjuration." Whether she signed the abjuration willfully or not, we know she signed a different, shorter admission than the one entered into the court records. Whatever her understanding, Joan thought she would be moved to a woman's prison and so had agreed to put on a female dress. Instead, she was sent back to the men's prison, where the guards threated her and dumped her men's clothes on the floor in front of her. She put them back on, thus violating the abjuration agreement, making her a "relapsed heretic." On May 30, 1431, she was condemned in public, turned over to the English civil authorities, and burned.

Short timeline of the life of Saint Joan of Arc

1412	Born in the small village of Domrémy in a French fife in eastern France amidst the ongoing Armagnac-Burgundian civil war which started in 1407 with the assassination of the Duke d'Orléans by agents of the Duke of Burgundy.
1415	English victory at Agincourt.
1420	Treaty of Troyes signed between Charles VI of France and Henry V of England, ceding succession to Henry V and disinheriting the French Dauphin (prince) Charles.
1424	Joan experiences her Visions and Voices.
1428	May: Joan makes first attempt to be taken to see the Dauphin The English siege of Orléans commences
1429	February 22: Joan convinces the captain to send her to the Dauphin at Chinon and departs in the company of several knights and pages. March 9: She meets the Dauphin (Charles VII); he sends her to Poitiers for investigation by Doctors of the Church who recommend to Charles that she be trusted and sent to d'Orléans to show a sign from God. April 27: Joan leads a large French army towards d'Orléans . May 4-8: Joan leads French victory, routing the English from entrenched positions. June 14-19: Joan leads French army victories clearing the English from the Loire Valley. June 29-July 16: Joan leads the Dauphin to his coronation at Reims where he is sacramentally coronated on July 17 August 4: Charles signs 15 day truce with Duke of Burgundy; he signs other truces later in the year, which all stifle Joan's military campaigns, including an aborted attack on Paris on September 8. Fall: Joan leads campaigns to clear remaining Burgundian holds near Loire Valley but is unsupported and unfunded by the French court; Charles' truce is extended through Easter, 1430.
1430	April- May: Joan recommences campaigns in northern France; on May 23 she is captured while defending the city of Compiègne. October/November: While imprisoned by the Burgundians, Joan leaps from a tower to escape, falling 40-60 feet; she is ransomed to the English in late November, and transferred to their custody.
1431	Feb 21: Joan appears before the French ecclesiastical court at Rouen in what is known as the Trial of Condemnation March 10: after six "public examinations," Joan's trial is irregularly moved into private at the castle. May 23: Twelve Articles of Accusation are read to Joan, which she denies. May 24 (Thurs): Joan brought in public for sentencing for heresy, and is subjected to a demeaning sermon; she is admonished and guided by other priests to sign an "abjuration" document admitting of her errors, and which includes here promise to abandon her men's apparel; she is sent back to the prison where the English guards harass or molest her while she is wearing a dress; she returns to the men's clothes the guards gave her. May 28-29: four Judges visit Joan in the prison and see her wearing men's clothes; the Court declares her a relapsed heretic and moves for formal excommunication and delivery to secular authority for burning. May 30: After a public exhortation by a priest, Joan is handed to the English who burn her.

HUNDRED YEARS WAR 1337–1453
Hundred Years War between France and England		Not a continuous war, but a series of events, battles, alliances, treaties, etc. that decided control of France

1412, birth of Saint Joan of Arc

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
Historical dating
c. 1412		Jeanne born to Jacques Darc and Isabelle Romée in Domremy in eastern France|	Joan said that she was not called by her last name
Traditional dating
January 6, 1412	Feast of the Epiphany	Joan's birthdate corresponding to the Feast of the Epiphany (the visit of the Magi to the Christ child, his baptism, and the Wedding at Cana).	Per a contemporary but never affirmed by Joan.

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1410s
1415
October 25|	Battle of Agincourt marks an overwhelming English victory; the Burgundian faction of France had stayed neutral in the invasion, leaving the Armagnac faction to fight the English on its own, which suffered a tremendous defeat	Henry V of England re-asserts English claims on France and commences accumulation of territory in northern France
1417		Pope Martin V elected, ending the Western Schism	the Avignon antipope continues his claim on the office, although without French backing (which he lost several years before, which allowed for the eventual settlement in 1417)
1418		The French Burgundian faction seizes Paris
September 10, 1419		The Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, is killed by guards of the Dauphin Charles	The Burgundians and the Dauphin's representatives were meeting to re-align themselves against the English; an argument broke out and the Duke was killed, which ended changes of a rapprochement.
1419		The Burgundian-English alliance begins
1420-1423
1420, May 21		Treaty of Troyes gives French succession to English King Henry V and also making him Regent of France	the English maintain their claim on the French throne through the infant king, Henry VI, who assumed the title upon the death of French King Charles VI. He would be crowned King of France in Paris in 1431 under English-Burgundian control of the city.
1422		Charles VI of France and Henry V of England die; the infant king Henry VI declared by the English to be King of France
1423		Domrémy forced to pay a protection fee to a commander who had in 1419 sacked a nearby Burgundian village
Jul 13 1423		English-Burgundian victory at the Battle of Cravant
1423	September 26	In one of the first battles between the English and French since Agincourt in 1415, the French victory at the Battle of La Brossinière gives confidence to the French cause.	Charles VII, the Dauphin, sends a letter to the city of Tournai trumpeting the victory; Shortly before defeating the English at La Brossinière, the French had won a smaller battle against the Burgundians at La Buissiere.
1424
Spring		A Scottish army arrives to assist the French
Summer		Joan experiences her first visions, starting with the Archangel Michael and then with Saints Catherine and Margaret	Possibly 1425; Joan said she was 13, so the year depends on assumptions of her birth year
Aug 17		Devastating English victory at Battle of Verneuil in northern France marks tremendous setback for France	Called the "Second Aigencourt"

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1428
May		Joan's father allows her to visit a cousin at Burey-le-Petit, who was expecting	the location was near to Vaucouleurs, to where her uncle brought her
May 13	Ascension Thursday	Joan's first trip to Vaucouleurs to meet Robert de Baudricourt; he rebuffs her and sends her home	May 13, 1428 was the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord (40 days after Easter Sunday) The people of Vaucouleurs distinctly remembered her "poor and worn" red dress.
June		Domreme raided by Burgundian forces and burnt and ransacked.	Domréme villagers flee to Neufchateau for protection from bandits; there, a man sues Joan for breach of marital contract
July		Joan and her family escape to Neufchâteau and stay at an inn run by a woman known as "la Rousse" for an extended period.	Joan helps her host run the property
Oct 12		The siege of Orleans begins
Fall		At some point, likely in the Fall of 1428, Joan is called to appear at Tours for breaking a promise of marriage, which she successfully denies.	We do not know who the man was who claimed she was to be his bride. It is possible her father was involved. Joan defended herself in court at Tours. (Good preparation for things to come!)

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1429
January		Joan stays with her uncle , Durand Laxart at Burey-le-Petit	She visits under the pretext of assisting is pregnant wife
January-February		Second visit to Vaucouleurs; Joan is again rebuffed by Baudricourt; however her notoriety rises, leading to great curiosity about he in the region.	Joan says "farewell" to a friend
early February		Joan is summoned by the Duke of Lorraine
February 12		Joan tells Baudricourt the French would lose another battle.	The story may be apocryphal but it explains the change in Baudricourt's attitude better than any other explanation, all of which are conjecture and lack contemporaneous or near contemporaneous source as this story that she predicted the outcome of the Battle of the Herrings.
February 12		French forces lose the Battle of the Herrings	The French had attacked an English supply convoy that was carrying salted herring to their troops at Orléans.
February 13		Baudricourt sends Joan away for the second time	It was the first Sunday of Lent that year, and Joan had returned to Vaucouleurs
February 13/14(?)		Joan, her uncle and another supporter try to go to Chinon by themselves	They turn back, realizing that they need Baudricourt's introduction
February 22		Joan returns and Baudricourt, now convinced by her prediciton of the Battle of Herrings, agrees to send Joan to see the Dauphin
February 22		Joan departs for Chinon to meet the Dauphin; Baudricourt supplies her with a horse and gear; she also acquires men's clothing and cuts her hair	Joan stated, " I had with me a Knight, a Squire, and four servants" She continues, "Robert de Baudricourt made those who went with me swear to conduct me well and safely. ‘Go,’ said Robert de Baudricourt to me, ‘Go! and let come what may!’
February 26		Having reached friendly territory, Joan attends Mass at "the great church" in Auxerre
March 2		The party arrives to Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois	Joan composes a letter to be sent ahead to the French King asking for a reception
Arrival to Chinon
March 4		Joan and her party arrive at Chinon
March 6		Joan meets the Dauphin Charles
March 7		Joan meets Jean d'Alençon
March 11		Joan is taken to Poitiers for examination by clerics and scholars, called the "Doctors."	Before or after the inquiry, Joan is also examined by ladies of the Court to confirm her virginity
March 22		The King's messengers announce to Joan approval to send her to Orléans.
		Joan dictates her audacious "Letter to the Englsh" warning the English King and his commander in France, the Duke of Bedford, to surrender their French holdings and join Joan in common cause.	Likely written from Poitiers where she was under interrogation by the King's counselors; the letter indicates her acceptance by the clergy there and by the King of France
March 25		Joan's mother and at least two of the Vaucouleurs knights or pages who took her to Chinon make the traditional pilgrimage to Le Puy for a special Jubilee celebration of Good Friday and the Annunciation.
		The Dauphin orders specialized armor for Joan	Joan asks for the sword from Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois,
April 2		The King orders a messenger to retrieve the sword that Joan said was hidden in the Church at Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois	The sword is found behind the altar where, from afar, she had instructed them to find it.
April 5		Joan departs Chinon and heads to Tours	Joan's armor and banners are being prepared there at the order of the King While at Tours, Joan meets her mother who introduces her to her confessor, Jean Pasquerel
April 15		The English Privy Council discusses a letter from the Duke of Bedford that asking that Henry VI be crowned King of France	He also asked for an additional 200 lancers and 1,200 archers to support the siege at Orléans
April 30		Brother Richard expelled from Paris
Relief of Orléans April-May 1429
April 21		Joan heads for Blois
April 24		Joan arrives to Blois to lead the army gathered there
April 27 or 29		Joan leads the army towards Orléans	Her procession is headed by priests carrying her banner
April 29		The commanders lead the force from the south and east of the city rather than from the north as Joan had wanted, expecting to attack the English immediately
		Joan meets the Bastard or Orléans, the Count of Dunois, who was in charge of the city's defense during the siege Joan's army is met by vessels which sailed with the wind upstream to meet her east of the city. Upon embarking, the wind changed, allowing the army to sail to Orléans, which they reached under the cover of darkness.	Dunois meets Joan at a river crossing four miles east of Orléans. Joan reprimands Dunois for the circuitous route she had been led along and demands an immediate attack. Dunois prevails upon her to reinforce the city first.
		Joan enters Orléans at 8:00 pm	She enters through the "Burgundy gate" and stays at the home of Jacques Boucher
Map of the Siege of Orléans the city was on the north bank of the Loire River the main English fortification was on the south bank however, the English had built a series of forts on the north bank, which limited but did not entirely halt the French ability to supply the city English outworks during the siege of Orléans
April 29		Joan leads the French army across the Loire and into the city of Orléans.	Joan prays at the Cathedral of Orleans
May 1		The Bastard of Orléans, the Count of Dunois, heads to Blois for reinforcements, leaving Orléans under the command of La Hire, with Joan there	Joan tours the city walls and exchanges words with the English commander William Glasdale, who insults her,
May 3		Dunois leads reinforcements from Blois towards Orléans
May 4	Monday	Early that morning Dunois' forces arrive to the north bank of the Loire, to the west of the city, near to an English garrison at Sainte Laurent; Joan rides out of the city to greet the French forces.
		At noon, Dunois leads an attack upon 400 English troops near the church of Saint-Loupe, to the east of the city (on the north bank) and defeats 400 English; Joan learns of the assault and joins it just in time to rally faltering French troops.	Joan demands the sparing the lives of captured soldiers
May 5	Tuesday	Feast of the Ascension of the Lord; Joan's confessor said she refused to fight that day, though another witness recalled that she led troops across the river for an attack on an English position, but found it deserted.	Fighting is suspended in honor of the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord; it is unclear how the 5th marks the Feast Day, as 40 days after Easter Sunday of 1429 would land on May 7
		She writes a letter to the English, which is sent to their camp by arrow at Les Tourelles
May 6	Wednesday	Dunois and his commanders plan an assault upon the south bank of the river, across from the city; Joan insists upon allowing a militia from the city to join the battle, to which the professional soldiers disagree. Joan prevails in the decision.
		The army crosses the Loire River, but before a complete landing, La Hire attacks English positions near Les Tourelles, which is the strongest English fortification directly across from the city (to protect the city the bridge was partly dismantled on the far side by the French).	Exposed English fire from Les Tourelles, the French retreat, dragging Joan back with them; as the English commence a pursuit, Joan turns, raises her standard and declares, "Au nom de Dieu!" ("In the name of God!"), which startles the English and ignites the French, so the English counter-attack is turned away.
		The French then launch an attack upon an English hold to the south of Les Tourelles, called "Les Augustins", which succumbs to the French by nightfall.	Joan injures her foot by stepping on a spike (caltrop ) while dismounting and does not participate in the military council that night. She tells her confessor, Jean Pasquerel, "Tomorrow blood will flow from my body above my breast."
May 7	Thursday	Against the wishes of the commanders and to great exclamation in the city, Joan leaves the city and joins the French army on the southern bank.	To support the attack, citizens commence repair of the bridge and station artillery on the island of Saint-Antoine.
		Just outside of Tourelles, Joan is hit by a longbow arrow between her neck and left shoulder; she is taken back to the city.	At news of her injury and perhaps death, French morale drops and that of the English rises, and the assault on Les Tourelles falters.
		Upon learning the Dunois planned to call off the attack, Joan goes into prayer, then returns to the army, telling the solders that when her standard touched the fortress wall it would be theirs, telling the troops that when her banner touched the fortress wall the place would be theirs. Amidst the commotion of battle and English missiles, she made her way to the wall. A French solder yelled, "It's touching!" to which Joan responded, "Tout est vostre – et y entrez!" ("All is yours, – go in!"). The French rushed forward with ladders and breached the walls.	Forced to the back of the fort complex on a drawbridge, the English commander falls into the river and drowns;
		Into the evening, the French continue to clear out the fortress and redoubts from the south, while an assault is launched from the city itself across the quickly-repaired bridge. 1,000 English are killed, 600 taken prisoner, and 200 French prisoners are released.
May 8	Friday	English abandon Orléans	Joan counsels mercy and not to chase after the English.
Loire Campaign, June 1429
May 9	Monday	Joan departs Orléans
May 13	Friday	Joan meets the Dauphin at Tours
May 14-24		Joan goes to Saint-Florent-lès-Saumir and meets Jean d'Alençon's wife and mother
May 22	Sunday	Joan meets with the King at Loches
June 9	Thursday	Joan at Orléans where the royal army is regrouped
June 11-12		Battle of Jargeau: Joan personally leads the assault upon the walls and takes the fortified town.	The Duke d'Alencon said the French killed 1,000 English soldiers while pursuing them out of the town.
June 15		Battle of Meung-sur-Loire	French forces easily take a strategic bridge and run the English out of the town
June 16-17		Battle of Beaugency	Count of Richemont arrives night of the first day, and is welcomed by Joan over the objections of other leaders
June 18		Battle of Patay: tremendous French victory that opens the path to Reims
June 24		Joan announces "it is time to put the King on the road to his coronation at Riems
Reims & the Coronation of Charles VII
June 30		French minister La Trémoïlle begins negotiations with the Burgundians	The deception and undermining of Joan by the French court begins
July 9		Submission of Troyes	Joan meets Brother Richard at Troyes.
July 17		Joan sends a letter to the Duke of Burgundy.
		Dauphin coronated as King Charles VII at Reims; Joan is given prominent placement in the ceremony along with her battle flag	Charles VII lingers at Reims while Joan urges an attack on Paris.
July 18-29		Submission of Compiègne to Charles VII
July 22		Soissons surrenders to Joan
Paris Campaign and Truces
August 4		Charles signs 15 day truce with Duke of Burgundy
mid-August		The English commander Bedford names the Duke of Burgundy governor of Paris
August 15		English and French armies led by their respective heads, the English Duke of Bedford and the French King Charles VII, line up at Montépilloy outside of Paris	on August 16, the English army moves back to Paris
August 26		Joan at St. Denis outside of Paris
August 28		Charles VII signs secret pact with Duke of Burgundy to halt military operations through Christmas
September 8		Joan leads assault upon walls of Paris and is injured
September 10		Charles VII orders retreat from the advance upon Paris
September 18		Charles signs another treay with the Duke of Burgundy	In November, the truce is agreed to be extended through Easter
October 10		Chancellor of France Regnault de Chartres heads to St. Denis to secretly negotiate directly with the English on behalf of Charles VII.	Chartres was also the Archbishop of Rheims who had coronated Charles VII.
November 4		Joan leads the assault upon the fortified town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.	Charles VII enobles Joan following the battle.
November 9		Nov 9: Joan fails to take the city of La Charité; Charles signs extended truce with Duke of Burgundy
November 24		Joan's defeat at La Charité

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1430
January 19		Joan's final visit to Orleans
March 3		Joan leaves Sully where she was with Charles VII; she heads towards Lagny
mid-March		at Sully-sur-Loire	The French hear that the Burgundians plan on laying siege to Compiègne, which remained loyal to the French despite being in Burgundian held area.
March 15		Joan sends letter to the people of Reims, "pray remain good and loyal"	A plot had arisen in Reims to surrender the city to the Burgundians; Joan appealed to loyal French in the city to prevail over the "wicked people"
March 23		Joan sends the Letter to the Hussites
		Joan's army advances towards Lagny-sur-Marne and defeats the English and Burgundians, taking the leader, Franquet d'Arras.	The townspeople were so infuriated at d'Arras that Joan let them execute him instead of ransoming him, as would normally happen.
April		At Lagny, Joan prays for a dead baby who revives long enough to be baptized before dying again.
April 16		Easter Sunday
April 23		The English child King Henry VI lands a Calais; he goes to Rouen
May 14		Joan arrives at Compiègne; with her remaining 400 soldiers, Joan enters the fortified town.
May 23		Joan captured by English and Burgundians while attempting to remove them from the siege of Compiègne; she was leading an attack upon a Burgundian camp at Margny.	Joan was delivered to the Duke of Luxumbourg
		She is held at the Castle of Clairoix
		Charles VII refuses to pay her ranson
September 18		Joan, the Demoiselle of Luxumbourg, dies, freeing the John, the Duke of Luxembourg to ransom Joan to the English. He immediately cuts the deal.	The Demoiselle had befriended Joan during her imprisonment at Beaurevoir, and used a promise of inheritance to the Duke as lever for him not to ransom her to the English.
September 30		The mystic supporter of Joan, Pierronne la Brettone, burned at the stake as a heretic by pro-English University of Paris clerics. She had been arrested in March outside of Paris for preaching support for Joan (who had not yet been captured).
Sept or early Oct		On realizing that she will be handed over to the English, Joan attempts to escape from Beaurevoir Castle	She tumbles 60 feet to the ground, laying there stunned, but alive. She credits God with saving her life.
Mid-Summer		Joan moved to Beaurevoir Castle, which was more secure	She recalls she was there" about four months"
October		Joan predicts the relief of Compiègne by "Martinmass" (November 11)
October 26		The Burgundian siege of Compiègne is lifted
November 9		Joan moved to Arras under Burgundian control as they negotiated the ransom for her from the English
Mid to late Nov		English pay the ransom and she is transferred to Crotoy, a coastal English fortress
Late 1430/ early 1431		Joan is taken to Rouen, the English administrative center	Henry VI was at Rouen;

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1431
January		Preparations for the trial of Joan by the church of Rouen
February		Bishop Couchan is given authority in Rouen even though he is from a different diocese
Six Public Examinations		Taking place in "public" areas of the Castle at Rouen, such as the Great Hall and the Chapel.
		the "public examinations" were intended as a show trial. Joan thwarted that aim through compelling, genius responses to arrogant interrogators. After six days of testimony, it was decided to hold the rest of the trial in private.
		Joan's show trial at Rouen commences with the first of six "public examinations" (the court later moved to "private examinations" as it was getting embarrassed by Joan's testimonies).
February 21, 1431 (1st session)	Ash Wednesday	Opening ot the Trial at the Castle of Rouen Held at 8am in the Chapel Royal of the Castle, a public area Present were Bishop Cauchon, and 42 "Assessors", made up of clerics and theologians from Rouen and Paris, including the "Promoter," or lead prosecutor, Jean d'Estivet Cauchon opens the Trial by asking the Promoter to read the "Mandate" for Joan to appear for the Trial Cauchon leads the interrogation Joan was asked to swear an oath, to which she excluded her "revelations which ahve come to me from from God"	The English hand Joan over to a French ecclesiastical court, but, in violation of that transfer of authority, keep her in an English prison; normally she would be held in a Church prison for women
			Joan states she will discuss her Voices in 8 days, which means March 1
February 22, 1431 (2nd session)	Thursday	The Deputy Inquisitor, Jean LeMaitre testified that he was not connected to the Trial but he would not object to continuance of the Trial Cauchon and 48 Assessors present held at the Great Hall of the Castle Jean Baupère leads the interrogation Joan objects to repeating her oath Joan testifies that at the age of 13 she "had a Voice from God"
February 24 (3rd session)	Saturday	Cauchon and Joan again argue over the oath 62 Assessors present held at the Great Hall of the Castle Baupère leads the interrogation	Cauchon and Joan argue over the oath Baupère tries to associate her visions with fasting Joan says her Voices told her the nigh before to "Answer boldly" to her questioners Joan states her famous equation about being in a State of Grace: " If I am not, may God place me there ; if I am, may God so keep me." She states she was "about thirteen" when the Voice first came to her
February 27 (fourth session)	Tuesday	Cauchon interrogates Joan 54 Assessors present held at the Great Hall of the Castle	Baupère tries to associate her visions with fasting Joan reveals it was Saints Catherine and Margaret who come to her Joan then states that Saint Michael who came to her first when she was 13
March 1, 1431 (5th session)	Thursday	Cauchon interrogates her 58 Assessors present held at the Great Hall of the Castle	Joan presented with her "Letter to the English" Joan makes the prediction that the English will suffer a greater loss than that of Orléans "within seven years" She is asked if her Voices said she would "be delivered from your actual prison," to which she replied, "Speak to me in three months, and I will answer." Three months from March 1 would be June 1, 5 days after her burning, when they got their answer.
March 3, 1431 (6th session)	Saturday	Bishop and 41 Assessors present held at the Great Hall of the Castle Cauchon interrogates her	the Manuscript moves into French the questioning brings up rumours and accusations, including about Brother Richard and Catherine de la Rochelle Joan states she has received the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist while dressed in men's clothes
Nine Private Examinations		"The Bishop decrees that the Enquiries, if any are thought necessary, shall henceforth be made in private"	These sessions were held in the prison.
March 4-9, 14-17	Sunday through Friday	Held at the Bishop's house
March 10	Saturday		Joan reveals the "Allegory of the Crown"
March 12	Monday	Two sessions in the prison. Later that day, the interrogators gathered at the Dominican House to decide waht to do..	Joan is asked on this day if she had any "letters" from her Voices. She replied, " Eight days from this, I will tell you willingly what I know." She is not asked about them again, but on March 17, five days later, she discusses signing her own letters with "Jhesus Maria"
March 13	Tuesday
March 14	Wednesday	Two sessions
March 15	Thursday	Joan questioned by De la Fontaine
March 16	Friday
March 17	Saturday	Two sessions
End of the Inquisitive phase of the Trial		"Ordinary" means a trial based on specific charges.	The Ordinary Trial phase marks the presentation of charges against Joan
March 18	Sunday	The Assessors meet privately to review the testimony and evidence against Joan and to decide how to proceed forward
March 22	Thursday	The Promoter d'Estivet is instructed to compile from the trial register a summary of accusations, known as the "Seventy Articles"
March 24	Holy Saturday	The Judges go to the prison and read to Joan the "Register"	"The Register which contained the questions made to her and her answers. This reading was made in the presence of the said Jeanne by G. Manchon, Registrar, and in the French language." She clarified her parents' names and that if they let her go back to her mother's house, she'd gladly put on a dress.
March 25	Palm Sunday	The Bishop meets with 13 other judges and they agree to move forward with accusations drawn of up by the Promoter, d'Estivet.	Cauchon "did address to Jeanne a Canonical Admonition." Joan responds.Cauchon offers to let her go to Mass on Easter Sunday if she wears a dress.
		Joan is questioned further in private
Trial in Ordinay		ends the investigatory stage and moves to a formal trial based on accusations
March 26	Monday	The Bishop convenes a meeting that decides to present the accusations to Joan and make her respond to each	Joan is not questioned this day
March 27-28	Tuesday-Wednesday	The Seventy Articles read to Joan over two days, and she is required to respond to each.
March 31	Holy Saturday	Joan briefly questioned, likely in an attempt to get her to submit in exchange for celebrating Easter.	During the exhange, she issues a dramatic theological statement that is contained in the Cathecism of the Catholic Church: "About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter."
April 1	Easter Sunday		Joan is not interrogated during this time The judges and ecclesiastical offices deliberate and vote to consolidate the Seventy into Twelve Articles Various opinions are received throughout the month of April
April 2-4	Monday-Wednesday	The Seventy Articles are consolidated into the Twelve Articles
April 5	Thursday	The Twelve Articles are sent to the University of Paris for approval
April 18	Wednesday	Joan beset by severe illness.	Cauchon had, that night before (?) sent a carp for Joan, which made her extremely ill, to the point that the English feared she would die.
		"Private Exhortation by the Bishop" (Cauchon)	Cauchon delivers a speech and requires a response from her.
			Joan is threatened with condemnation as a heretic, and thus indirectly threatened with burning at the stake.
April 19			No interrogations of Joan during this period
April 29		The University of Paris formally considers the Articles
May 2	Wednesday	Public admonition by the Judges in the Great Hall at the Castle Rouen. Cauchon addresses the assembly of judges and guest	Joan given a "chartible warning"
		Joan read a series of admonitions about her errors called the "Exhortation in Six Articles"	Joan is directly threatened by the Archdeacon Châtillon with burning ("temporal fire" should the Church abandon her)
May 9	Wednesday	Joan is brought before torture instruments and threatened with their use	Joan responds, "Truly if you were to tear me limb from limb, and separate soul and body, I will tell you nothing more; and, if I were to say anything else, I should always afterwards declare that you made me say it by force."
May 12	Saturday	The fourteen court "Assessors" (judges) decide not to submit Joan to torture, which, one of the two who argued for it said would be “a salutary medicine for her soul."
		The Bishop confirms the "Resolutions of the University of Paris" approving the Twelve Articles
May 13	Sunday	The Earl of Warwick presents a major banquet at Rouen, including to invite the Duke of Luxembourg
		Most of the group visit Joan in her cell	There Joan insults the English and the Earl of Stafford pulls his knife to stab her but was stopped by Warwick
May 14		The University of Paris affirms the Twelve Articles
May 19	Saturday	Cauchon gathers the judges and assessors and they agree to confirm the Twelve Articles and read them against Joan after "she should be again charitably admonished and warned before a final sentence be pronounced"
May 23	Wednesday	The formal sentence in Twelve Articles is read to Joan	University of Paris theologian Pierre Maurice admonishes Joan to save her soul
The Sentence & Abjuration
May 24	Thursday	Public admonition in front of the scaffold in the cemetery Saint-Ouen
		Joan signs the abjuration document
		She is sent back to the English military prison, where she puts on women's garments
May 24-27	Thursday-Sunday	At some point over the weekend, the English guards assault or molest, or threaten to assault or molest her in the prison; afterwards, they throw a set of men's clothes to her, which she puts on for her protection.
The Relapse & Conviction
May 28	Monday	Cauchon leads Judges to see Joan in prison wearing men's clothing again.
		Joan rescinds her abjuration
May 29	Tuesday	Joan is convicted of heresy by gather of the ecclesiastical court
Burning of Joan of Arc
May 30	Wednesday	Aobut 9:00 Joan is brought by cart to the Old Market and the Final Sentence is read in public
		Joan is legally handed over to the English who burn her at the stake
June 2		English leadership authorizes expenditures for attacks upon Louviers which lay between Rouen and Paris.
June 7		Testimonies of several Judges recorded in the highly dubious "Subsequent Examinations" about confessions and interrogations with Joan on May 30th.
October 5		The English take Louviers
		English King Henry VI crowned Henry II of France at Paris

1433-1434

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
Nov 30		A deep freeze settled on France and England starting on the Feast Day of the Saint Andrew, Patron Saint of the Burgundian, leading to hardship across Normandy and discontent with the English occupation.	The Thames Froze

1435

|- |January | |Local revolts against English erupt between Falaise, Carentan, and Bayeux |La Hire continued raids, and the Duke d'Alencon (Bastard of Orleans) led the rebel army |- |June 1 | |The Bastard of Orleans takes Saint Denis |English defenders were "slaughtered without mercy" |- |September 21 | |After almost two months negotiation at the "Congress of Arras (August 5-September 21), the Treaty of Arras is completed between the Burgundian and French |The English abandoned the Congress; the English Regent of France, John, the Duke of Bedford, dies on Sept 14, a week before the Treaty was signed. |- |}

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1435-1436
February 28		The French army led by Arthur de Richemont and Jean de Dunois surrounds Paris
April 13		uprisings by citizens of Paris against the English and Burgundians as the city is taken by the French army
1437
November 12		Charles VII enters Paris, formally reclaiming the city within France
1438
July 7		Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Council of Bourges

DATE	DAY	EVENT	NOTES
1450
1450	First interviews of witnesses to Joan's 1431 Trial
February 15		Charles VII formally orders the priest Guillaume Bouillé to open an investigation into 1431 condemnation of Joan of Arc	The document is dated 15 February, but Murray for some reason dates it February 13.
March 4-5		Bouillé interviews seven witnesses at Rouen	From those testimonies, several legal authorities counseled Bouillé to consider the 1431 Trial null and void, though he made no formal pronouncement.
1452		At the request of Joan's mother, Isabel Romée. Cardinal and Papal Legate to France, Guillaume d'Estouteville recommences the inquiries into Joan's 1431 condemnation.	By proceeding as if it was a private matter, d'Estouteville avoided entanglements with the English and their former allies in France.
April		Cardinal d'Estouteville enjoins Jean Bréhal, Grand Inquisitor of France, to conduct interviews at Rouen
1455		The new pope, Calixtus II, authorizes an official inquiry into the legality of the 1431 Trial and judgment of Joan.
November 7		The official inquiry commences at Notre Dame at Paris.	The Case was opened
December 12		The new Trial opens and preparations for interviewing witnesses started
December 20		Heirs to Bishop Pierre Cauchon, who led the 1431 Trial and condemnation of Joan, express no objections to a challenge to the validity of Cauchon's trial.
December		Witnesses are interviewed at Rouen
1456
January -February		Thirty-four witnesses are inteviewed at Domremy and Vaucouleurs
February-March		Forty-one witnesses are interviewed at Orléans and twenty at Paris
May		Witnesses are interviewed at Rouen	a total of nineteen testify between December 1455 and May 1456
1456, July 7		The conviction is invalidated and Joan is declared a martyr for France
Post-15th Century
1905, April 11		Joan beatified by Pope Pius X
1920, May 16		Saint Joan canonized by Pope Benedict XVI

Sources

• Pernoud, Regine, Joan of Arc: her story, Appendix 11
• Murray, T, Douglas, Jeanne D‘arc, The Trials, starting p. 377, "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF JEANNE D’ARC"