In May 1430, however, Joan was captured, at the siege of Compiègne. She was brought to Arras to be imprisoned. Her captor was a nobleman called Jean de Luxembourg, who had been fighting on the English side at Compiègne. He owed his allegiance to England’s most important ally, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and through the duke’s mediation he sold Joan to the English. One year later, during which time a church court had convicted her of heresy, Joan was burned at the stake in Rouen.
