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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. She grew up in Vouthon-Bas and later married Jacques d'Arc . The couple moved to Domrémy , where they owned a farm consisting of about 50 acres (200,000 m 2 ) of land.
Two months after the election of Pope Calixtus III, Isabelle Romée and her two sons appealed for justice concerning Jeanne’s case. The Pope authorized the investigation and appointed the judges. The process to right the wrongs done to Jeanne was begun on November 7, 1455.
- A Journey of Faith
- For France
- Enemies and The Devil
- Campaign of Courage
- Victory and The Birth of A Martyr.
Her commitment to her faith and to God was usual for the times and her beliefs shaped her daily thoughts. Where Isabelle differed was her longing to make the hazardous pilgrimage to Rome for the chance to be close to Gods representative on earth. Isabelle did not consider herself brave, simply unworthy as she trecked from Lorraine across the Alps a...
Joan was her first daughter, one of five children to the fortunate Isabelle and Jacques. By the time Joan was 13 and receiving beautiful visions of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret telling her to drive the English from France, Isabelle had ensured Joan knew the essentials skills of the farmer’s wife. Isabelle imbued all her teachi...
To Isabelle’s horror, as the world knows, by 19 poor Joan was dead. She was executed brutally in Rouen on 30 May 1431 by the English loving Bishop of Beauvais for ‘insubordination and heterodoxy’. The pious young girl was wickedly proclaimed a sorceress by her enemies. Isabelle Romée dedicated the rest of her life to fighting to restore her daughte...
She relentlessly petitioned Pope Nicholas V to reopen the court case that had convicted Joan of heresy. Finally an inquiry was opened in 1449. On 7 November 1455, in the reign of Pope Callixtus III, Isabelle traveled to Paris to visit the delegation from the Holy See. Isabelle was now over seventy years old but her faith and her cause kept her mind...
The appeals court overturned Joan’s conviction on 7 July 1456. Twenty-five years after her execution, Joan of Arc was declared innocent and a martyr. Isabelle Romée lived two years more, in more peace than she had known for a quarter of a century. She missed her daughter very day. 1. Le monument Jeanne d’Arc, Bonsecours 2. Isabelle Romée 3. Site of...
The conviction of Joan of Arc in 1431 was posthumously investigated on appeal in the 1450s by Inquisitor-General Jean Bréhal at the request of Joan's surviving family—her mother Isabelle Romée and two of her brothers, Jean and Pierre.
Isabelle Romée, who was now somewhere between sixty and seventy years old, her two sons and a group of friends from Orleans, came to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Tearfully and filled with emotion, Isabelle approached the Pope's representative judges and began to recite her request for justice for her daughter.
Following Joan’s death, her mother Isabelle Romée spent the rest of her long life working to clear her daughter’s name. She petitioned Pope Nicholas V to overturn the heresy conviction that killed Joan of Arc. She eventually succeeded. Joan of Arc’s conviction was overturned in July of 1456.
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Isabelle Romée, also known as Isabelle de Vouthon and Isabelle d’Arc and Ysabeau Romee, was the mother of Jeanne. She moved to Orléans in 1440 after and received a pension from the city.
