As a result, as part of a reform of the taille in June 1614, the privilege was curtailed.

The special privilege of female transmission of nobility was a fiscal danger: since nobles were exempted from certain taxes, notably the taille, the number of tax exemptions could unduly increase. Luc received a crest of a fleur-de-lys or issuant between two banners as before, with war-cry: Les Lys!. The same letters granted to Charles a crest representing Jeanne d’Arc proper, holding a sword surmounted by a crown or in one hand and her banner in the other, and the war-cry La Pucelle!.

His great-grandsons Charles and Luc du Lys, seigneur de Reinemoulin, petitioned for the right to quarter du Lys and d’Arc, which was granted by Letters Patent of November 25, 1612. He returned to France and kept the name of Du Lys, but resumed the arms of Arc. Pierre, who became a knight, had two sons: Jean, knight, who left only a daughter, and Jean the younger, who was briefly Échevin of Arras in the 1480s. Of her three brothers, two had issue: the descendants of Jean adopted the name of Du Lys and used the arms. The Arc family seemed to have arms prior to these events, namely: Azure a bow or in fess, thereon three arrows crossed …, on a chief argent a lion passant gules His great-grandsons Charles and Luc du Lys, seigneur de Reinemoulin, petitioned for the right to quarter du Lys and d’Arc, which was granted by Letters Patent of November 25, 1612.Ĭharles VII granted her family arms and nobility. Pierre, who became a knight, had two sons: Jean, knight, who left only a daughter, and Jean the younger, who was briefly Échevin of Arras in the 1480’s. The family seemed to have arms prior to these events, namely: Azure a bow or in fess, thereon three arrows crossed …, on a chief argent a lion passant gules. It was confirmed in October 1550, on petition of Robert Le Fournier, baron de Tournebeu, and his nephew Lucas du Chemin, seigneur du Féron, both descended from a daughter of Pierre du Lys. Thus, in her family, nobility was transmitted by females. It was made in favor of her parents, her three brothers Jacquemin, Jean and Pierre, and their descendants male and female, in perpetuity. The text of the grant of nobility (Dec 1429) survives. The family was also authorized to adopt the name of Du Lys.

The arms were also granted to her family, and it must have taken place in 1429. She testified at her trial that she never used those arms personally, only displaying her famous banner (white, with an image of God holding the world between two angels, and the words Jhesus Maria).

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