(c.1412–31), French national heroine; known as the Maid of Orleans ; French name Jeanne d'Arc. She led the French armies against the English in the Hundred Years War, relieving besieged Orleans in 1429 and ensuring that Charles VII could be crowned in Reims. Captured by the Burgundians in 1430, she was handed over to the English, convicted of heresy, and burned at the stake. Canonized in 1920, her feast day is May 30.