Jacques d'Arc is most known for being an influence on his daughter Joan's life, having an impact on developing her leadership abilities through his example as a local government and military leader as well as restricting her ambitions with his controlling behaviour that resulted in a strained relationship between them.
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Jacques d'Arc's father was a farmer who owned 50 acres of land.
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Jacques d'Arc married Isabelle Romee, a landowner and sister of a church official.
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Jacques d'Arc was appointed as "dean", a local government official with administrative and military responsibilities that sometimes involved diplomatic trips to nearby towns.
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Jacques d'Arc played a role in the Hundred Years War as a local government official, with his entire lifetime being within that period of non-continuous conflicts.
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The village of Domremy was loyal to France but was surrounded by a cluster of towns loyal to Burgundian forces, which created a credible military threat that Jacques d'Arc was responsible with addressing as dean of the village.
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Jacques d'Arc signed an agreement representing Domremy in 1419 that reluctantly placed the town under the protection of a squire who had engaged with them militarily.
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Jacques d'Arc had recurring dreams about Joan going off to war around the same time that she had similar dreams.
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Jacques d'Arc interpreted these dreams as a warning because he believed that the only women associated with the military were prostitutes.
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Jacques d'Arc told his sons that if the dreams were to come true, he would want them to drown Joan, or he would do it himself.
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Jacques d'Arc subsequently tried to marry off Joan in an attempt to control her deviant behaviour, but she refused.
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