Joan of Arc's mother sued to clear her daughter's name, and in 1456 the church declared the 1431 trial null

Joan of Arc led French forces for Charles VII. In December 1429 the king ennobled her father, Jacques, her mother, Isabelle Romée, and her brothers Jean and Pierre; the family used the name du Lys. Burgundian troops captured Joan at Compiègne in 1430 and sold her to the English, and Charles made no attempt to recover her. A church court at Rouen under Bishop Pierre Cauchon tried her for heresy from 9 January 1431. On 24 May she signed an abjuration. On 28 May she put on men's clothing again and was condemned as a relapsed heretic. She was burned on 30 May 1431. From 1434 her brothers backed a woman, Claude des Armoises, who claimed to be Joan, until she confessed to Charles VII about 1440. Isabelle settled in Orléans, where the city paid her 48 sous parisis a month for life. With her sons Jean and Pierre she petitioned for a new trial, and the Inquisitor-General won permission from Pope Calixtus III. On 7 July 1456, at the archbishop's palace in Rouen, the court declared the 1431 trial "filled with fraud, false charges, injustice," null and void. It declared that Joan and her family had incurred no disrepute. A copy of the accusations was torn up. Orléans held celebrations on 27 July. Isabelle died on 28 November 1458. Joan was canonised in 1920.