Summary of Joan of Arc's Childhood

On the night of the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6th) at the end of the medieval Christmas season, in the year 1412 during the final waning period of relative peace secured by the Truce of Leulinghen, a baby was born to Jacques Darc (or "d'Arc") and his wife Isabelle in the village of Domremy. She was christened Jehenne ("Joan"), apparently after her mother's sister Jehanne Lassois, or her godmothers Jehanne Royer, Jehanne de Viteau, and Jehanne' the wife of Mayor Aubery". Lord Perceval de Boulainvilliers later claimed that the roosters of the village "like heralds of a new joy"...