- Youngest of 5 children born to farmer Jacques d'Arc (1380-1440) and his wife Isabelle Romée (1377-1458). Jacques and Isabelle were played by Powers Boothe and Jacqueline Bisset, respectively, in Joan of Arc (1999).
- Sister-in-law of Catherine Corviset.
- Ancestor of Eric de Haldat du Lys and Margueritte de Haldat du Lys.
- Her birthplace Domrémy was renamed "Domrémy-la-Pucelle" after her nickname "La Pucelle" ("The Maid").
- In 1452, during the posthumous investigation into her execution, the Church declared that a religious play in her honor at Orléans would allow attendees to gain an indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for sin) by making a pilgrimage to the event.
- Songs about her include: "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" co-written by Al Bryan; "Joan of Arc" by Leonard Cohen; "Joan of Arc" by Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall; "Joan of Arc" by Madonna, MoZella, Toby Gad, and Symbolyc One; and "Joan of Arc" and "Joan of Arc (Maid of Orléans)" by Andy McCluskey.
- Was not known as "Joan of Arc" during her lifetime. Her surviving signatures (illiterate, she dictated her letters) are spelled "Jehanne" with no surname; surnames were uncommon in the 15th century. Her name is today in French is rendered as "Jeanne d'Arc", reflecting the modern spelling of her first name and a 19th century approximation of her father's name.
- Mark Twain declared her to be the greatest human being who ever lived, second only to Christ, and considered his historical novel "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by Sieur Louis de Conte" (1896) to be his best work.
- Played by Milla Jovovich, Maria Falconetti, Ingrid Bergman, Leelee Sobieski, Jane Wiedlin, Jean Seberg, Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Hedy Lamarr, Sandrine Bonnaire, Julie Harris, Geraldine Farrar, Milly Thomas, Maria Jacobini, Florence Delay, Angela Salloker, Beverley Dunn, Diana Lynn, Elizabeth MacLennan, Avril Elgar, Eileen Atkins, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Morgan, Janet Suzman, Rita Leska, Marguerite Dabrin, Nina Rautio, Katie McHardy, Jeanne Calvière, Simone Genevois, Sylvie Testud, Léontine Massart, Margot Trooger, Catherine Morley, Anny de Lange, Marthe Keller, and Marion Cotillard.
- 18th century English essayist William Warburton and 19th century Irish scholar Edmond Malone were so mortified by the depiction of Joan in "Henry VI, Part I", each tried to prove (in vain) that William Shakespeare had no hand in its authorship.
- Sister of Pierre d'Arc (1408 - 1467), Catherine d'Arc (1405 - 1429, Jacquemin d'Arc (1402 - 1452), Jean d'Arc (1404 - 1447), and Jacques of Arc (1406).
- Daughter of Jacques d'Arc (1380-1431) and Isabelle Romée d'Arc (1384-1458).
- The campaign to canonize Joan was launched by Félix Dupanloup, Bishop of Orléans, in 1869. After decades of delay (and an initial rejection by the papal consistory), it was Pope Pius X who pushed her cause through (Leo XIII having signed the Commissio Introductionis Causæ Servæ Dei Joannæ d'Arc in 1894). Pope Benedict XV oversaw her canonization on May 16, 1920.
- "The illustrious career of Joan of Arc proves that there is no miracle French genius cannot perform in the face of a threat against national freedom." -- Napoléon Bonaparte, in a letter to his minister to inform the mayor of Orléans of his approval to erect Edme-François-Étienne's statue of Joan [February 9, 1803].
- From "St Joan" by George Bernard Shaw: "We need some mad people, look where the sane ones have got us!".
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