Jehanne was a 15th century virgin saint and national heroine of France. A peasant girl born in Eastern France, Jehanne led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of King Charles VII. She was captured by the English and tried by an ecclesiastical court led by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, an English partisan; the court convicted her of heresy and the English burned her at the stake when she was nineteen years old.