Joan of Arc Trivia Questions

Joan was a peasant girl with no military training; her leadership came from divine visions and sheer conviction, not formal knighthood.

She survived the Paris assault but was captured later during a skirmish at Compiègne, then tried and executed by the English.

She was about 17 when she led the army to lift the Siege of Orléans in 1429, a remarkable feat for a teenager with no experience.

She was a devout peasant girl who took no religious vows. Her visions inspired her mission, but she never became a nun.

A posthumous retrial in 1456 overturned her conviction, but it was an ecclesiastical court, not the Pope directly, though he authorized it.

She claimed voices told her to find a sword at the Church of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois, which was indeed discovered there, rusted but intact.

She told soldiers she would be hit by an arrow near Orléans, and it came true—she was struck in the shoulder but continued fighting.

After her first execution, the English ordered her remains burned again and ashes thrown into the Seine to stop people from keeping relics.