Jeanne's Chronology
Jeanne d'Arc - Joan of Arc (1412-1431) Born 6 January, 1412 at Domremy in Champagne, France
Year Month Event
1428
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May. Burey-le-Petit. Stays with Duran Laxart.
13 Arrived at Vaucouleurs. First meeting with Robert de Baudricourt.
Jun.
Jul. Domremy is raided. Refuge at Neufchâteau.
Jeanne and her family are housed with a woman named La Rousse for a fortnight.
Toul.? Jeanne is denounced befor the authorities for breaking a promise of marriage, which she denies.
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
12 The Earl of Salisbury lays siege to Orleans
Nov.
Dec.
Year Month Event
1429
Jan. Second visit to Vaucouleurs.
Stays with Duran Laxart. Second meeting with Robert de Baudricourt. Baudricourt gave her a horse and a small escort and sent her on her way to Dauphin. [Jan-Feb].

The English and Burgundian parties held some of the area in which Jeanne and her escort had to cross. They traveled by night and hid by day. On the 12th day of their journey they reached Chinon. Jeanne sent a letter ahead to Dauphin to announce her arrival.

He sent Jeanne to learned men and scribes to be examined. They questioned her for 3 weeks. Finally the learned men and scribes gave in to the beliefs of the people. [Jan-Feb].
Feb.
13 Probable date of Jeanne's departure from Vaucouleurs for the Dauphin's court.
17 In Vaucouleurs she announced a great defeat which had befallen the French arms outside Orléans.
23 Arrived at Chinon.
25 First interview with the Dauphin.
Mar.
Her virginity was noted by mature women, at Poitiers/Tours in March.
6 Presented herself at the court of the dauphin in Chinon, declaring that she was sent by the King of Heaven to free Orleans.
22 First letter of challenge to the English.
Apr.
5 in Tours where a suit of armour and a banner are made for her
8 The army waited at Checy which was about 6 miles from Orleans. There were not enough boats for Jeanne's entire army to cross the river into Orleans. Jeanne and some of her army crossed the river, but the rest of it had to go back to Blois and enter Orleans by land.
21 Led to Blois where she met the additionnal troops for Orleans under Gilles de Rais 's command.
27 The army quitted Blois, escorting an important supplying convoy.
28 Jeanne summoned the King of England to withdraw his troops from French soil.
The army moved to the left bank of the Liore. Royal army leaves Blois for Orleans.
29-30 The army arrives in front of the besieged city. Jeanne meets the Bastard of Orleans. The convoy of foods is loaded on barges opposite Chécy and goes across the river Loire to Orleans. Under cover of night, Jeanne enters into Orleans by the Burgundy gate and goes to live there in Jacques Boucher's house
May.
4 Capture of the Bastille of Saint-Loup. While Jeanne was asleep her army attacked the fort at St. Loup. When she woke she sensed something was wrong and hurried to the battle. Her army was quickly retreating. She rallied the men and they came back and won. English fall back to the Bastille of the Augustins.
5 Third letter of summons to the English.
After the battle nobody knew what to do. Learned men had meetings without Jeanne and she became angry. She told she and all of them would perish and fall but God would not.
6 Capture of the Bastille of the Augustins.
French now command the assault of the Bastille of the Tourelles, the main approach to Orleans.
7 Jeanne and her army attacked the bastion of Journée des Tornelles.
When Jeanne was descending into the moat an arrow from a cross-bow hit her between the neck and the shoulders. She pulled out and, fearing death, went into confession.

Jeanne did not die but on the next day she returned to Chinon.
She wanted Dauphin to go to Rheims with her to be crowned but he would not for fear of the English who still held parts of Rheims. Dauphin and the learned men decided that Jeanne should attack the places that the English still held along the Loire River.
8 Deliverance of Orleans. Siege of Orléans raised.
9 Jeanne and Dunois leave for Loches to meet the Dauphin.
25 Probably saw Charles VII.
Jun.
11 Jeanne and her army attacked Jargue.
Jeanne was climbing a ladder when a rock hit her head.
She fell from the ladder but quickly got up sending her men on.
12 Capture of Jargeau.
15 Meung-sur-Loire attacked and taken.
17 Capture of Beaugency.
18 At Patay, the forces of Jeanne and the constable de Richemont defeated English in open battle, and captured Talbot. English garrisons withdraw to Paris.
24 Royal army departed Gien with Charles VII on march to Reims.
29 French army begins to move toward Rheims.
30 Army arrives before Auxerre.
Jul.
4 French Army arrives at Troyes.
10 Surrender of Troyes. Anglo-Burgundian forces retreat. Charles VII admitted into city of Troyes
14 Entry of royal army into Chalons.
16 Dauphin entered Rheims.
17 Coronation of Charles VII in the cathedral at Rheims.
Jeanne stood by Dauphin as he was being crowned King Charles VII and anointed king of France at Rheims. She stood by with her banner.
20 Charles VII leaves Rheims.
Aug.
15 Skirmish at Montépilloy.
Sep.
8 Attack begun on Paris. Jeanne wounded at the St. Honoré gate during failed attack on Paris.
21 Army of the Loire disbanded by royal order. Charles' army disbanded after failure of attempt at Paris.
Oct.
Nov.
Expedition to La Charité fails. (November-December)
Dec.
Jeanne's family enobled, with surname "du Lys"
Year Month Event
1430
Jan.
Feb.
Jeanne engaged in a battle at Lagny (Feb or March?)
Mar.
29 Jeanne engaged in a battle at Lagny.
Apr.
It was April before Jeanne was able to take the field again at the conclusion of the truce, and at Melun her voices made known to her that she would be taken prisoner before Midsummer Day. Jeanne leaves the royal castle at Sully to resume operations. Passage through Melun, Lagny, and Senlis.
4 Philip the Good enters Péronne.
2 New English forces debark at Calais.
May.
Jeanne and her army attacked Crespy.
13 At Compiegne. John of Luxembourg, to seize the town of Compiègne.
However, Jeanne moved first and entered Compiègne by surprise.
18 At Soissons.
23 Burgundian army besieges Compiègne
23-24 ??? In Compiègne at sunrise to defend the town against Burgundian attack.
The French retreated but Jeanne was captured by Burgundians.
Taken to the castle of Beaurevior at Margney.
The Frenchmen that captured her sold her to the English. She was locked in a cell and questioned by bishops. University of Paris demands Jeanne to be tried for heresy.
Jun.
Jul.
Mission of Pierre Cauchon to duke of Burgundy to have Jeanne turned over to the English.
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
25 Lifting of the siege of Compiègne
Nov.
Dec.
23 Taken to Rouen under English escort.
Year Month Event
1431
Jan.
3 Custody of Jehanne d'Arc is transferred to Bishop Cauchon
9 Trial of Jeanne d'Arc opened at Rouen.
During her trial she would not take the oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but truth.
She said it was not her right to pass on the information that God had given her.
Jeanne´s appeal to be sent before the pope for judgment was denied.
13 Her virginity was noted by mature women.
Feb.
21 Appeared for the first time before her judges. The first public session.
Mar.
10 Private interrogations begin.
17 Closing of the inquiry period of the trial.
27 The indictment against Jeanne is completed.
Apr.
5 Consultations with ecclesiastical authorities begin.
18 The charitable admonition to recant her errors is made to Jeanne.
19 The condemnation of Jeanne d'Arc of the University of Paris is read.
23 The trial of Jeanne d'Arc concludes.
May.
9 Threatened by possible torture..
19 Reading of the University of Paris' condemnation.
23 She was condemned to be burned unless she recanted.
Faced with death in the flames, she recanted, but many historians think she did not understand what was meant in the statement of recantation. As a result of her submission, her punishment was commuted from death to life imprisonment. This leniency enraged the English, however, and it was not long before she was accused of relapsing from her submission.
24 Abjuration scene in the Saint-Ouen cemetery. Jeanne is threatened with execution and under that threat recants. She is sentenced to life in prison. Agrees to assume women's clothes. 
27 Reassumes male clothing.
28 Trial for relapse. Jeanne rejects her recantation, and accepts a sentence of death.
29 Clerical justice turns Jeanne over to the secular authorities. A court of thirty-seven judges decided unanimously that the Maid must be treated as a relapsed heretic, and this sentence was actually carried out the next day.
30 Jeanne d'Arc is executed. Burned to death at the stake, only 19 years old.
Jun.
8 Notification of Jeanne's execution sent to the princes of Christendom.
Jul.
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
16 Coronation of Henry VI of England as king of France, in Paris. (he's nine years old.)
Year Month Event
1435
Sep.
14 Death of the duke of Bedford
21 Treaty of Arras between France and Burgundy.
1437
Nov.
12 Entry of Charles VII into Paris.
1450
Feb.
15 Rehabilitation process begun. Intermittently conducted until 1456.
Mar.
4-5 Royal inquiry conducted by Guillaume Bouille.
1452
May.
2-9 Ecclesiastical inquiry into Jeanne's life begun by Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville and Inquisitor Jean Brehal.
1455
Jun.
11 Pope Calixtus II permits Jeanne's mother and brothers to have an inquiry into the circumstances of her trial begun.
Nov.
7 Retrial of Jeanne begins. Jeanne rehabilitated, and the former verdict annulled by the archbishop of Rheims.
1458
Nov.
28 Death of Jeanne's mother Isabelle
1903
Feb.
Formal proposal of canonization is made.
1904
Jan.
Pope Pius X accords Jeanne the title "Venerable."
1909
Apr.
11 Jeanne given the title "Blessed."
1920
May.
16 Jeanne canonized by Pope Benedict XV.