Large bronze Medal of Saint Joan of Arc by Édouard-Pierre BLIN 1931 Depicting Young Joan in Armour and Praying on Horseback On The Reverse
A rare and beautiful medal of Joan of Arc the patron saint of France struck by Édouard-Pierre BLIN for the 500th Anniversary of her death at the hands of the Burgundians in 1431.
Édouard-Pierre BLIN (1877-1946). French medallist, studied under Chaplain, Peter, Bottée and Hector Lemarie. Awarded the Grand Gold Medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
This stunning medal shows the young Joan of Arc with cropped hair in her armour and the circle depicting sainthood around her head.
On the obverse is Saint Joan praying whilst seated on her white Percheron horse.
The medal is solid bronze and to verify this it has the Cornucopia mark and the word BRONZE on the edge. It is 6 centimetres in diameter and it weighs 125.7 grams.
Joan died in 1431 having been captured by the Burgundians. A sham trial found her guilty of heresy and she was burned at the stake.
Despite her being one of the most famous and revered figures in French history, and the patron saint of France, it took nearly 500 years for her to be actually made a saint.
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced the embattled crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where it achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians. After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by Anglo-Burgundian forces, tried for witchcraft and heresy and burned at the stake in 1431, at the age of 19. By the time she was officially canonized in 1920, the Maid of Orléans (as she was known) had long been considered one of history’s greatest saints, and an enduring symbol of French unity and nationalism.
A rare and beautiful medal of Joan of Arc the patron saint of France struck by Édouard-Pierre BLIN for the 500th Anniversary of her death at the hands of the Burgundians in 1431.
Édouard-Pierre BLIN (1877-1946). French medallist, studied under Chaplain, Peter, Bottée and Hector Lemarie. Awarded the Grand Gold Medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
This stunning medal shows the young Joan of Arc with cropped hair in her armour and the circle depicting sainthood around her head.
On the obverse is Saint Joan praying whilst seated on her white Percheron horse.
The medal is solid bronze and to verify this it has the Cornucopia mark and the word BRONZE on the edge. It is 6 centimetres in diameter and it weighs 125.7 grams.
Joan died in 1431 having been captured by the Burgundians. A sham trial found her guilty of heresy and she was burned at the stake.
Despite her being one of the most famous and revered figures in French history, and the patron saint of France, it took nearly 500 years for her to be actually made a saint.
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced the embattled crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where it achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians. After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by Anglo-Burgundian forces, tried for witchcraft and heresy and burned at the stake in 1431, at the age of 19. By the time she was officially canonized in 1920, the Maid of Orléans (as she was known) had long been considered one of history’s greatest saints, and an enduring symbol of French unity and nationalism.
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