| In February, resigned because of the people’s enthusiasm for Joan’s cause, Baudricourt let her go, accompanied by 2 men from the Vaucouleurs garrison, Jean de Nouillompot and Bertrand de Poulangy.
She met with the Dauphin in and clearly announced that 4 events were to take place: the liberation of Orleans, the coronation of the king in Reims, the liberation of Paris and the release of the Duke of Orleans. After some investigations, Charles agreed to her plan for liberating Orleans, then besieged by the English.
On the 8th May, she succeeded in raising the siege of Orleans. After this victory, she was nicknamed the Maid of Orleans. She persuaded the Dauphin to go to Reims and be crowned King of France there.
The coronation took place on the 17th of July 1429 performed by Regnault de Chartres; Joan of Arc was present.
As a follow-up, Joan of Arc managed to convince the king to take Paris back from the Burgundians. An attack was launched, but quickly abandoned; Joan was wounded during the attack on the St Honoré gate in Paris. The army was disbanded.
But nevertheless Joan carried on with her own troops; she no longer represented the king. She was captured on the 23rd May 1430. She was bought by the English for 10,000 pounds and handed over to Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais and an ally of the English.
She was accused of heresy and jailed in Rouen. On the 30th May 1431, she was burnt at the stake on the old market place in Rouen.
When Charles recaptured Rouen, a second trial annulled the first one and completely rehabilitated Joan and her family on the 7th July 1456.
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