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When and where was Joan of Arc burned at the stake?
Joan was captured by Burgundian forces in May 1430, sold to the English, tried by an English-aligned ecclesiastical court at Rouen on charges of heresy and cross-dressing, and burned at the stake in Rouen's marketplace on 30 May 1431. She was 19. A second trial in 1456 — convened by Charles VII whose coronation Joan had made possible — formally rehabilitated her. She was canonised in 1920.
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