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Isabelle Romée, also known as Isabelle de Vouthon and Isabelle d'Arc (1377 – 1458) and Ysabeau Romee, was the mother of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
. She was a native of Vouthon
Vouthon

Vouthon is a Communes of the Charente department in the Charente departments of France in western France....
, a village near Domrémy-la-Pucelle
Domrémy-la-Pucelle

Domr?my-la-Pucelle is a village and Communes of France of the Vosges Departments of France, in Lorraine , France. In 1999, its population was 167....
 where she and her husband Jacques d'Arc
Jacques d'Arc

Jacques d'Arc was the father of Joan of Arc. He was a farmer in the village of Domremy in Lorraine. He held the post of "doyen," a local post that collected taxes and organized the village defense....
 settled. Together they owned about of land and a modest house. Isabelle Romée may have earned her surname from a pilgrimage to Rome. Surnames were not universal in the early 15th century and a woman could maintain a different one from her husband's.

Isabelle Romée gave her daughter a religious, Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 upbringing and taught her the craft of spinning wool
Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is an ancient textile arts in which fiber crop, animal fiber or synthetic fiber fibers are twisted together to form yarn . For thousands of years, fiber was spun by hand using simple tools, the Spindle and distaff....
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Isabelle Romée, also known as Isabelle de Vouthon and Isabelle d'Arc (1377 – 1458) and Ysabeau Romee, was the mother of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
. She was a native of Vouthon
Vouthon

Vouthon is a Communes of the Charente department in the Charente departments of France in western France....
, a village near Domrémy-la-Pucelle
Domrémy-la-Pucelle

Domr?my-la-Pucelle is a village and Communes of France of the Vosges Departments of France, in Lorraine , France. In 1999, its population was 167....
 where she and her husband Jacques d'Arc
Jacques d'Arc

Jacques d'Arc was the father of Joan of Arc. He was a farmer in the village of Domremy in Lorraine. He held the post of "doyen," a local post that collected taxes and organized the village defense....
 settled. Together they owned about of land and a modest house. Isabelle Romée may have earned her surname from a pilgrimage to Rome. Surnames were not universal in the early 15th century and a woman could maintain a different one from her husband's.

Isabelle Romée gave her daughter a religious, Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 upbringing and taught her the craft of spinning wool
Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is an ancient textile arts in which fiber crop, animal fiber or synthetic fiber fibers are twisted together to form yarn . For thousands of years, fiber was spun by hand using simple tools, the Spindle and distaff....
. She also had two surviving sons: Pierre and Jean. Like the rest of the immediate family, she was ennobled by royal grant in December 1429. She moved to Orléans
Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
 in 1440 after her husband's death and received a pension from the city.

Isabelle Romée spent the rest of her life restoring her daughter's name. She petitioned Pope Nicholas V
Pope Nicholas V

Pope Nicholas V , born Tommaso Parentucelli, was Pope from March 6, 1447 to his death in 1455....
 to reopen the court case that had convicted Joan of heresy. An inquiry finally opened in 1449. On 7 November 1455, after the reign of Pope Callixtus III
Pope Callixtus III

Pope Calixtus III , n? Alfonso de Borja, was Pope from April 8, 1455 to his death in 1458....
 had begun, she traveled to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 to visit the delegation from the Holy See
Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
. Although she was over seventy years old she addressed the assembly with a moving speech. It began, "I had a daughter, born in legitimate marriage, whom I fortified worthily with the sacraments of baptism
Baptism

In Christianity, baptism is the ritual act, with the use of water, by which one is admitted as a full member of the Christian Church and, in the view of some, as a member of the particular Church in which the baptism is administered....
 and confirmation and raised in the fear of God and respect for the tradition of the Church," and ended, "…without any aid given to her innocence in a perfidious, violent, and iniquitous trial, without a shadow of right… they condemned her in a damnable and criminal fashion and made her die most cruelly by fire." The appeals court overturned the conviction on 7 July 1456.

Portrayals

  • Selena Royle
    Selena Royle

    Selena Royle was a stage and film actress.Her father was playwright Edwin Milton Royle. She turned to acting despite the objections of her parents....
     in the 1948 film Joan of Arc
    Joan of Arc (1948 film)

    Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
     starring Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
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  • Jacqueline Bisset
    Jacqueline Bisset

    Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress....
     in the 1999 television miniseries Joan of Arc starring Leelee Sobieski
    Leelee Sobieski

    Leelee Sobieski is an American actress. Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie Deep Impact . She has received an Emmy nomination for the 1999 TV movie Joan of Arc , and two Golden Globe nominations for Joan of Arc and the TV movie Uprising ....
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See also

  • Joan of Arc bibliography
    Joan of Arc bibliography

    This article covers nonfiction. For fictional representations see Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc.Joan of Arc bibliography is a selective list of scholarly works....