What background did Joan of Arc have to prepare her for her role?

Answer 1

her childhood was not the best as some of ours are now when she was three years old her dad used to beat and rape her every night!But by the time she was 12 she stared to hear the voices of St.Michael,St.Catherine,and St.Margret,and believing that they had been sent from god telling her that it was her divine mission to free her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne.

Answer 2

St. Joan of Arc was a pious French girl who lived in the early fifteen century, she was the youngest of five children of a peasant farmer. Below is an extract from the Catholic Encyclopedia (link below for the entire article).

Born at Domremy in Champagne, probably on 6 January, 1412; died at Rouen, 30 May, 1431. The village of Domremy lay upon the confines of territory which recognized the suzerainty of the Duke of Burgundy, but in the protracted conflict between the Armagnacs (the party of Charles VII, King of France), on the one hand, and the Burgundians in alliance with the English, on the other, Domremy had always remained loyal to Charles.

Jacques d'Arc, Joan's father, was a small peasant farmer, poor but not needy. Joan seems to have been the youngest of a family of five. She never learned to read or write but was skilled in sewing and spinning, and the popular idea that she spent the days of her childhood in the pastures, alone with the sheep and cattle, is quite unfounded. All the witnesses in the process of rehabilitation spoke of her as a singularly pious child, grave beyond her years, who often knelt in the church absorbed in prayer, and loved the poor tenderly. Great attempts were made at Joan's trial to connect her with some superstitious practices supposed to have been performed round a certain tree, popularly known as the "Fairy Tree" (l'Arbre des Dames), but the sincerity of her answers baffled her judges. She had sung and danced there with the other children, and had woven wreaths for Our Lady's statue, but since she was twelve years old she had held aloof from such diversions.

Answer 3

She was a simple peasant girl who grew up on her parent's farm where she helped out doing specific chores. She never attended school and could not read nor write. Her entire family were devout Catholics.

Answer 4

Joan had no formal education or military training. Her job was strictly on-the-job training.