Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl who helped lead France to victory, was burned at the stake after being convicted of ...

The competing claims of her son Edward III of England and her cousin Philip of Valois led to the Hundred Years’ War, whose destruction was compounded by the Black Death in the 1340s. Historian ...

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and Henry V. It gave France a national heroine in Joan of Arc.