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Why was Joan of Arc hanged?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Joan was not hanged, she was burned at the stake. Joan had led the French to several military victories that had seriously embarrassed and humiliated the British army and they wanted her dead. As it would not have been proper to execute her for military actions she took they concocted false charges of heresy and witchcraft. An ethnic French bishop who favored the Brits found her guilty and ordered her burned at the stake, the standard punishment for heretics at the time. 25 years after her death, Joan was exonerated of all charges and, instead, the bishop was found guilty of heresy. He had since died so could not experience the same fate as Joan.

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11y ago

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