By about 1430, Christine de Pizan had died at the convent of Poissy, France; the exact month and day are not recorded.
By approximately 1430, Christine de Pizan died at the royal convent of Poissy, near Paris, where she had spent her final years in retirement, likely near her daughter who was a nun there.
Although the precise month and day of her death are not documented in surviving records, historians consistently place her death in this year, shortly after the composition of her final work honoring Joan of Arc. Her retreat to Poissy reflected both the growing dangers and instability of the ongoing Hundred Years' War and, likely, a desire for religious contemplation in her later years after decades of prolific public writing.
Christine's death closed the career of a woman who had, against the constraints of her era, built an unprecedented professional life as a writer — supporting herself and her family through her pen after being widowed young, and producing a body of work spanning poetry, biography, political philosophy, military theory, and pioneering defenses of women's dignity and capability.
Her legacy would go largely underappreciated for centuries before being rediscovered and celebrated by modern feminist scholars, who now regard her as one of the most important early voices in the European tradition of women's intellectual and literary history. Institutions, translations, and academic study of her work continue to grow, cementing her enduring place in literary and women's history.