Career
Born at Ceffonds, he held the post of doyen in Domrémy, a local post that collected taxes and organized the village's defence. King Charles VII ennobled Jacques and Isabelle's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symbolic denomination. The Chamber of Accounts in France registered the family's designation to nobility on 20 January 1430.
The grant permitted the family to change their surname to du Lys. The family tradition is presumably wrong here since Joan died in 1431, whereas most sources place Jacques d'Arc's death around 1440.