Joan of Arc

As an unknown teenage peasant with no rank or family standing, convinced the Dauphin's court to grant her troops and equipment, and helped lift the English siege of Orléans in 1429.

Led French forces on the campaign that culminated in the Dauphin's coronation as Charles VII at Reims — the goal she had stated from the outset.

When the Dauphin tried to test her by disguising himself among his courtiers and putting someone else on the throne, she identified him correctly and unprompted — an episode multiple witnesses who had been present described in testimony gathered at her 1455–56 Nullification Trial, a quarter-century after the fact.

Wounded by a crossbow bolt during the assault on Orléans, she returned to the fighting after treatment rather than withdrawing from the field.

At her trial, she sustained weeks of hostile theological interrogation by trained clergy without breaking — one of the few surviving cases of a medieval individual's own recorded first-person testimony, rather than a later reconstruction.

She continued wearing male soldiers' clothing against direct clerical instruction to stop — a choice the trial record shows her defending as her own, repeated decision, and one of the central charges that led to her execution.

This illustrates the profile's dual-edged independent_thinking score: the same resistance to pressure to conform that let her withstand weeks of interrogation without breaking also showed up, in a different form, as the specific charge used to convict her. Independent Thinking