I read somewhere (probably Wikipedia) that one of Joan's bodyguards and close confidantes was a pedaphile, rapist, and murderer. To the point where he would kidnap young boys, rape them, then kill them and dismember them to cover up the evidence. If this is just a conspiracy theory of some wack historian, that would make sense. But if there is a dark secret in Joan of Ark's close group of body guards and fighters, wouldn't it make sense to cover it up? I mean, wouldn't they want that to remain a secret. I mean, say that they discovered this only recently, even from accounts later discovered, would this affect Joan's "mythology" that seemed to surround her?
His name was Gilles de Rais and he was an aristocrat.