# Joan is burned at Rouen on 30 May 1431

Date: 1431

## The fact

On 30 May 1431 Joan was burned at Rouen. This catalog stores the execution as a dated public killing after the Rouen process. It does not store the fire as proof of voices, and it does not treat Joan as the author of her own execution.

## Context

This is the inquisition’s end-state. Later statues on the same square can be civic memory or nationalist theatre; those are other rows. 1456 quashed the sentence without undoing the death.

[Joan of Arc](/people/joan-of-arc) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Rouen’s civic public identity and Britannica independently date 30 May 1431.

Official or archival record: Ville de Rouen (https://www.rouen.fr/; Ville de Rouen).

## Significance

Killing path. High confidence on the date.

A death is not a canonization. 1920 remains a Vatican paper.

## What is established and what is not

Established: execution by fire at Rouen 30 May 1431.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Joan of Arc: https://factrail.ai/people/joan-of-arc

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.rouen.fr/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-burning-1431