Joan of Arc (also known as Jeanne d'Arc)

Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc, was a peasant girl from France who claimed to receive visions from saints instructing her to support Charles VII in the Hundred Years' War against England. In 1429, she inspired the French army to lift the siege of Orléans and played a crucial role in Charles's coronation as king. Captured by the English in 1430, she was tried for heresy and burned at the stake in 1431. Joan became a symbol of French nationalism and is recognized as a martyr and a saint by the Catholic Church, canonized in 1920.