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About SapnaOnline. Why Shop at SapnaOnline. Create New Account. My Order History. My Wishlist. All Rights Reserved. Paper Back. My eventual conclusions, I will admit, are imminently assailable. I make no assertion that the somewhat expensive concept sword that now sits on a rack in my living room is the final word on this subject.

But until such time as more reliable information comes to light, this concept will suffice. Joan's reputation as the potential savior of France had preceded her to Orleans. She had not yet lifted even a finger towards raising the siege, yet she had become the center of attention. Had not Merlin predicted her coming?

Had she not convinced Robert de Baudricourt, that crusty and ever-practical captain of Vaucouleurs, to send her to the Dauphin at Chinon? Had not she and her pitifully few escorts spent two weeks traveling through enemy territory, miraculously without incident? Had she not convinced the weak and vacillating Charles to give her an army, despite the objections of his powerful and suspicious advisors? To the people of Orleans, any actions taken by her were of great interest.

When it became known that she had sent for a particular sword, the existence of which was unknown to anyone, and that this previously-unknown sword had be found buried in the ground near where she said it would be, it must have seemed like a miracle. Over time, the story spread throughout France. Even today it is considered by some to be one of the many miracles that surrounded the Maid.

It appears from their interest that her judges were also concerned about its discovery. Although she was eventually acquitted of the charge of witchcraft, at the time of these questions considerations of the diabolic must have weighed heavy in the minds of her accusers. The above testimony represents the only documented eyewitness account we have of Joan of Arc's Fierbois sword. In fact, the sword is nowhere else described in either the manuscript of her Condemnation Trial or her Rehabilitation Trial.

From what she tells us it had five crosses on it, and the rust was easily removed. Outside of these two statements, we know nothing at all about it. We do not know its length, its weight, the shape of its blade, or the design of either its hilt or its pommel. We don't know what the design of the crosses might have been or how they were arranged.

Were all of them on one side of the blade, were there five on each side, or were there three on one side and two on another? Actually, we don't know if the crosses were on the blade or located elsewhere on the sword. To compound the confusion, early medieval historians writing within a century of Joan's death provide us with alternate descriptions. Many have described these "crosses" as "five fleurs-de-lis[4]," others as "five swords," and some have made no mention at all of decorations or embellishments.

On the other hand, we have to realize that Joan was not the only person in the world who ever saw the Fierbois sword. Without a doubt it was also seen by members of Charles' court, by his captains, by soldiers, even by ordinary townspeople. All of them must, at one time or another, have mentioned the sword to friends who told friends who told friends. Eventually, these eyewitness accounts must have reached the ears of early writers who only described what they had heard.

These later descriptions undoubtedly may have amounted to little more than unfounded rumor; or, there may be contained in these various descriptions something that can lead us to understand what really was on the sword. If the "crosses" were of an unusual or stylistic design, contemporary eyewitnesses could very well have confused them with fleurs-de-lis or swords, and the early commentators simply echoed what they had heard.

But the fact that there may have been some kind of figure on the blade is not all that unusual. During the early medieval period many blacksmiths added iron or silver inlays to form words, symbols, crosses, circles, and designs. This was so common that modern sword historians think that such designs were the trademarks of various blacksmiths.

But since it was not uncommon for a blade to be adorned with words and crosses, the fact that Joan's sword bore five "crosses" doesn't help us all that much, in itself. Our quest to create a concept replica of the Fierbois sword would be much easier had Joan stated that the blade contained an inscription known to be dear to her.

We also know that her parents had given to her a ring with the same inscription. As tempting as it may be, we can dismiss this one as being Joan's sword since nowhere is it mentioned — either by Joan or by medieval historians — that the Fierbois sword contained these words, or any other for that matter. And I am sure that if the blade had contained this wording, we would have heard about it. But what we can pretty much tell for sure about the Fierbois sword is that it had five "some things" on its blade.

One major question therefore to be answered is, "What was the nature of the decorations? If we take Joan at her word, she had this sword retrieved for no other reason than that her voices had told her about it. Presumably, they also suggested she fetch it. If this is so, then why did they indicate this particular sword? No doubt they led the search to the Church of St.