For four months still, John of Luxembourg hesitated; but his aunt, Joan, died at Boulogne, on the 13th of November, and Joan of Arc had no longer near him this powerful intercessor.

The King of England transmitted to the keeping of his coffers at Rouen, in golden coin, English money, the sum of ten thousand livres.

John of Luxembourg yielded to the temptation.

On the 21st of November, 1430, Joan of Arc was handed over to the King of England, and the same day the University of Paris, through its rector, Hebert, besought that sovereign, as King of France, "to order that this woman be brought to their city for to be shortly placed in the hands of the justice of the Church, that is, of our honored lord, the Bishop and Count of Beauvais, and also of the ordained inquisitor in France, in order that her trial may be conducted officially and securely." It was not to Paris, but to Rouen, the real capital of the English in France, that Joan was taken.

She arrived there on the 23d of December, 1430.