Hi Don,

The forum post to which you link, from debraregypt, alleges, inter alia, that Joan was the sister or twin of the Dauphin Charles (1403-1461) (later Charles VII). The post gives a Wikipedia link where it is explained that Charles’ mother, Isabeau of Bavaria, was accused of an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis, Duc d’Orléans; some years later, there were more rumours to the effect that King Charles VI was not the father of the Dauphin Charles. Nowhere in this article, though, can I find any suggestion of any rumour to the effect that Joan was related in any way to the Dauphin. (According to the Wikipedia site on Isabeau, the Queen had two daughters, both named Jeanne; one who died aged two in 1390; and one, born in 1391, who, having married John VI, Duke of Brittany, died in 1433. Nothing is said about either daughter being Jeanne d'Arc, though).

Debraregypt goes on to question the ennobling of Isabelle Romée, Jeanne’s mother, in December 1429, remarking that it was curious, and insinuating that it might have been a reward for looking after the daughter of the Queen. But 1429 was the year that saw Jeanne’s victories and the subsequent coronation of the Dauphin … reason enough for Jeanne’s family to be rewarded.

In other posts in that forum thread, the poster goes on to make other unevidenced assertions, including one to the effect that it was not Jeanne d’Arc who perished on the pyre.
The Wikipedia article, however, says that eyewitnesses described how, after raking the pyre and exposing Jeanne's charred corpse, her executioners then burned it again until it was a pile of ash, which they threw into the river.

Finally, debraregypt also refers to this site, which alleges that several people claimed to be Jeanne d’Arc after 1431, including, between 1436-1440, someone called Claude des Armoises.

In the same post, debraregypt mentions a story to the effect that Jeanne married in 1436, and died in 1449. No source is given. However, a websearch revealed this site, a description of a work of fiction based on historical characters. In her discussion of this work, the author (Anna De Feo) alleges that she has found evidence of Jeanne d’Arc’s survival, marriage and death, but gives no details or sources.

In other words, Don, the series of posts to which you link contains no credible or persuasive evidence whatsoever that Jeanne was the sister of Charles VII, the daughter of Charles VI, or the wife of anyone at all.

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