• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    TIL about her brothers doing this:

    Following Joan’s execution, several young women came forward claiming to be her. In 1434, Pierre and Jéan temporarily accepted Jeanne des Armoises (whose real name was Claude) as the actual Joan. Over the next six years, the brothers and their supposed sister traveled from town to town, beginning at Orléans, receiving lavish gifts from Joan’s many admirers, among them, Princess Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1390–1451), and Elisabeth von Görlitz, widow of Prince Anton of Burgundy. Then Claude made the mistake of meeting with Charles VII of France in Paris. Unable to tell him a secret Joan had told him - which proved to Charles that Joan had been sent by God to defeat the English - Claude confessed to the subterfuge, and begged the king’s forgiveness.

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    1 day ago

    Think this title is supposed to end with “and in poor health”

    She passed away two years after getting Joan’s name cleared.

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      There is nothing uniquely evil about European organized religion until the so-called Protestant Reformation.