This again is true, in fact Mr Grasse is spot on "we" did, nowadays the trial wouldn't have gone to court, as there was no evidence against Joan, even the clerical notary Nicolas Bailly, who was commissioned to collect testimony against Joan, could not find any. It is right and fitting that she had a retrial (after her unfortunate execution) and found to be innocent of all charges. The execution even upset the executioner, Geoffroy Therage, who later stated that he "...greatly feared to be damned".
One point I have to make though, if Mr Grasse had done his research properly he would have known that the "arrow" (actually a crossbow bolt) she was stuck by, was in the leg (not the shoulder) and that this happened in 1429 (not 1428).
*EDIT* Having done some more research into this I have found that it was the French, not the English that executed Joan of Arc, and, I hate to tell you this Mr Grasse but it was not for heresy as you claim, but for cross-dressing. It turns out that the French captured her, then, sold her to the English for a ransom, but the English persuaded a French ecclesiastical court to bring charges of heresy against her.
After eight terrible months in which she was brutally beaten and raped by her captors she was brought before the French judge Pierre Cauchon who found that the most serious charge against her was cross-dressing as it was an “abomination unto the Lord” (Deuteronomy 22:5).
It was right that she was given a retrial, and that she was found innocent of all charges but, for the sake of correctness Mr Grasse, please do more research before you go to print otherwise you may well sound like a racist bigot.
*EDIT* Having done some more research into this I have found that it was the French, not the English that executed Joan of Arc, and, I hate to tell you this Mr Grasse but it was not for heresy as you claim, but for cross-dressing. It turns out that the French captured her, then, sold her to the English for a ransom, but the English persuaded a French ecclesiastical court to bring charges of heresy against her.
After eight terrible months in which she was brutally beaten and raped by her captors she was brought before the French judge Pierre Cauchon who found that the most serious charge against her was cross-dressing as it was an “abomination unto the Lord” (Deuteronomy 22:5).
It was right that she was given a retrial, and that she was found innocent of all charges but, for the sake of correctness Mr Grasse, please do more research before you go to print otherwise you may well sound like a racist bigot.
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