As @Whiteshore mentioned, Joan was planning to crusade against the Hussites afterwards, so it's an easy way for Charles to get her out of the way. If the Hussites kill her - which is highly likely, given their exceptional tactics for the time - all the better for him. If she's captured, he might be in a bit of a pickle if the Hussites demand a ransom from him.Joan was becoming a major headache for Charles near the end, unwilling to recognize truces he negotiated and going on her own campaigns without his approval. A rogue Maid of Orléans is a highly dangerous thing for him, given the cult of personality that had grown up around her. Charles needed to get rid of Joan, and the sooner the better, so if she avoided capture at Compiègne or escaped Burgundians/English after her capture, then I strongly believe he'd have pushed her toward crusade in the east as a way to get her out of his hair. If not that, then he'd probably murder her at some point -- and, if he was as sloppy and obvious about it as he was his assassination of the duke of Burgundy, then holy hell, parts of France would probably explode in rebellion against him.
On a side note, a story about Joan in Hussite captivity might be interesting.
I doubt it, though her family was probably far less saintly than her.Is Joan the sort of person who would take gifts and allow herself to grow rich?
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