100yearswar

=**100 Years War 1337-1453** =



=** Causes **=

**French Heroine**


In 1429, [|Joan of Arc] pleaded with [|Charles VII of France] to let her help lead French troops against the English. She claimed that God told her that it was her mission to free the French from the English. Within a year, she lead the French in several victories and was given a place of honor next to the king at his coronation. In 1430, she was captured by allies of the British and put on trial for witchcraft and heresy. In 1431, she was convicted and burned at the stake. After her death, the French saw her as a [|martyr] and by 1453 had largely driven the English out of France. In 1920, Pope Benedict XV had her [|canonized] as a saint.

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