Joan of Arc Captured at Compiegne
May 23, 1430
Covering a retreat across a drawbridge, the Maid was pulled from her horse by a Burgundian archer and sold to the English for ten thousand livres. Charles VII, whose throne she had saved, made no attempt to ransom her. She was twenty years old. Her trial at Rouen would become history's most famous miscarriage of justice, its transcript a haunting record of teenage defiance.
In context
Also in 1430 (5 other events on record)
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- Ming Grand Canal Renovated · East Asia · Technology
- Vijayanagara's Devaraya II Crowned · South Asia · Politics
- Inca Road System Expanded · South America · Technology
- Aztec Aqueduct from Chapultepec Completed · North America · Technology
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in War
- Before: June 18, 1429: Battle of Patay
- After: 1431: Ayutthaya Sacks Angkor
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.