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When and how was Joan of Arc executed?
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431, aged 19, after a heresy trial conducted by an English-aligned French ecclesiastical court. She had been captured by the Burgundians a year earlier and sold to the English. The verdict was overturned by a Vatican retrial in 1456, and she was canonised as a saint in 1920.
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The Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France that lasted from 1337 to 1453. It originated in a dispute over the French throne and ended with the expulsion of English forces from all of France except Calais.
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