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Joan of Arc

1412–1431

Joan of Arc was a French military visionary who helped revive the Valois cause during the Hundred Years’ War. She accompanied the relief of Orléans, supported Charles VII’s coronation at Reims and was later captured, tried for heresy and burned at Rouen.

In Toby Clements’s A Good Deliverance, his confession moves through service in France, the Battle of Verneuil, encounters with Joan of Arc and the court of the antipope John XXIII, knighthood under Henry VI and imprisonment under Edward IV. Griff Hosker’s Blood on the Crown places Joan of Arc within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and military command and battlefield decision-making. Other novels featuring Joan of Arc include Paul Doherty’s The Serpent Amongst the Lilies, Jean Plaidy’s Epitaph for Three Women, Griff Hosker’s King Henry IV, Griff Hosker’s Queen’s Knight, and Griff Hosker’s St Crispin’s Day.

In non-fiction, Joan of Arc is discussed in Antonia Fraser’s The Warrior Queens. In Antonia Fraser’s The Warrior Queens, beginning with Boudica and moving through figures such as Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I and later female leaders, Fraser examines how women in power were praised, feared, sexualised or mythologised when they were associated with war.

Historical context

Historical periods linked to Joan of Arc

Hundred Years’ War 1337–1453 CE Joan of Arc 1412–1431 CE

Series

Series featuring Joan of Arc (3 series)

Struggle for a Crown in Order

by Griff Hosker 10 books 4.5

Struggle for a Crown follows soldiers and retainers through the crises of late medieval England and France. The series moves from Richard II and Henry IV to Henry V, Agincourt, the later Hundred Years’ War and the struggle to hold English power in France. It is a dynastic…

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Blood on the Crown

4.4

To Murder a King

4.5

The Throne

4.5

King Henry IV

4.6

The Road to Agincourt

4.5

St Crispin’s Day

4.5

The Battle for France

4.6

The Last Knight

4.5

Queen’s Knight

4.5

The Knight’s Tale

4.6

Matthew Jankyn Mysteries in Order

by Paul Doherty 2 books 4.2

The Matthew Jankyn Mysteries follow a former thief and suspected Lollard who enters the service of Bishop Henry Beaufort. Jankyn’s criminal experience makes him useful as an investigator and agent, but his loyalties remain divided between survival, religious doubt and the demands of a powerful Lancastrian patron. The…

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The Whyte Harte

4.2

The Serpent Amongst the Lilies

4.1

Plantagenet Saga in Order

by Jean Plaidy 14 books 4.1

The Plantagenet Saga spans the dynasty from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard III. Across fourteen novels, family rebellion, disputed succession, royal marriage and war connect the Angevin Empire, the conquest of Wales, conflict with Scotland, the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses.

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