bunniesandbeheadings: weareladyknight: Little is known about Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan o
bunniesandbeheadings: weareladyknight: Little is known about Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arc before the birth of her famous daughter. She was born in Vouthon-Bas around 1377. She later married Jacques de Arc and moved to Donrémy where she gave birth to Joan. The last name Romee suggests that she made a pilgrimage to Rome at some point. She was responsible for her children’s education, including Joan’s, and taught them their prayers and their saints. The values that Joan embodied such as piety, honesty and bravery doubtless came from her mother. After her daughter’s execution on the charge of heresy, Isabelle worked to overturn the charge. For thirty years, Isabelle fought to clear her daughter’s name. She petitioned the Pope to reopen the court case and gave an address to a delegation of the Holy See. Her efforts were not in vain. Thirty years after her daughter’s death, an appeals court overturned Joan conviction. Isabelle was seventy at the time and died two years later. Though she was not a knight, I wanted to take a moment to give a shout-out to Isabelle Romee. In popular retellings of Joan’s story, Isabelle is often left out. Wikipedia only lists two depictions of her in media. Isabelle taught Joan everything Joan knew about religion and spoke truth to power to right her daughter’s legacy. She is a key figure in the story of the Western world’s most famous Lady Knight and deserves recognition as such. It might be worth noting that Jeanne went out of her way at trial to point out that, in her part of the country, girls inherited the surnames of their mothers, not their fathers. So the Maid of Orleans did not, in her mind, identify as Jeanne d'Arc ( her father’s name, often translated as Joan of Arc) but Jeanne Romée. Somewhere along the line of compounding mystification, we lost the root of who “Joan” was. But I don’t know. Jacques d'Arc’s role in Jeanne’s “story” such as it is, is his alleged threat that if he thought Jeanne would run away and join with soldiers, he’d have her drowned. Isabelle Romée? She makes sure her daughter, after having run away with soldiers and brought them to victory, is not remembered as a witch. That took some gumption. Seems to be Jeanne was more Romée than D'Arc, just like she said she was. -- source link
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