Following Joan of Arc's execution, several young women came forward claiming to be the Maid, including Claude des Armoises.
[2] Over the next six years, the brothers and their "sister" traveled from town to town, beginning at Orléans, receiving lavish gifts from Joan's many admirers, among them, Princess Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1390-1451), and Elisabeth von Görlitz, widow of Prince Anton of Burgundy.
Then Jeanne made the mistake of meeting with Charles VII of France in Paris.
Unable to tell him the "secret" Joan had told him - which proved to Charles that Joan had been sent by God to defeat the English - Jeanne confessed to the subterfuge, and begged the king's forgiveness.
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