25 years after her death by fire, Joan of Arc was declared innocent at a posthumous retrial. The cou
25 years after her death by fire, Joan of Arc was declared innocent at a posthumous retrial. The court declared that her death sentence had been the result of false accusations by the original prosecutors. Her mother lived to see her daughter’s name cleared on this day in 1456.(images from Fairburn’s History of Joan of Arc, Called the Maid of Orleans (DC103.5 .F25 1819, Noel Vault)) -- source link
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