Joan of Arc Burned at Rouen
May 30, 1431
Convicted of heresy and relapse by a rigged ecclesiastical court, the nineteen-year-old was tied to a stake in the Old Market and burned alive while an English soldier sobbed that they had killed a saint. Her ashes were thrown in the Seine. Within thirty years the Church would exonerate her.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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