THE MAID AND THE QUEEN ALSO BY NANCY GOLDSTONE Four Queens The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe The Lady Queen The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily WITH LAWRENCE GOLDSTONE The Friar and the Cipher Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World Out of the Flames The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World Warmly Inscribed The New England Forger and Other Book Tales Slightly Chipped Footnotes in Booklore Used and Rare Travels in the Book World The Secret History of Joan of Arc Nancy Goldstone VIKING VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi— 110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2012 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Copyright © Nancy Goldstone, 2012 All rights reserved Illustration credits appear on pages 281–282. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon. The maid and the queen : the secret history of Joan of Arc / Nancy Goldstone. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. EISBN: 9781101561294 1. Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412–1431. 2. Yolande d’Aragon, Queen, consort of Louis II, King of Naples, d. 1442. 3. France— History— Charles VII, 1422–1461. 4. Christian women saints— France— Biography. 5. Nobility— France— Biography. 6. Louis II, Duke of Anjou, 1377–1417. I. Title. II. Title: Secret history of Joan of Arc. DC104.G65 2012 944’.0260922— dc23 [B] 2011037605 Printed in the United States of America Set in Bembo Std MT Designed by Amy Hill While the author has made every effort to provide accurate Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. For Larry, always