Jeanne d'Arc, also known as Joan of Arc, was a French peasant girl born around 1412. She is famous for her role during the Hundred Years' War between France and England. Claiming to have received visions from saints, she led French troops to several important victories, most notably the lifting of the siege of Orléans in 1429. Captured by the English in 1430, Jeanne was tried for heresy and burned at the stake in 1431. She was posthumously exonerated in 1456 and canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1920, becoming a symbol of French unity and nationalism.