Joan is examined at Chinon and received into Charles of Valois’s war council circuit
In early 1429 Joan was brought to Chinon, examined, and allowed into the Valois war effort around Charles VII. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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In early 1429 Joan was brought to Chinon, examined, and allowed into the Valois war effort around Charles VII. It does not store inner voices as a verified supernatural Fact.
Context
English and Burgundian parties held Paris and much of the north. A fortress audience is a political instrument. Birth year remains c.1412 in public biographies; no parish register is cited here as an autograph 1412 file.
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.
Why it matters
Legitimacy path for the Valois restoration. High confidence on a Chinon examination; none on private revelation as physics.
A court filter is not Orléans. Keep the siege on its own row.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Joan of Arc
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
She presented herself and was questioned. Charles’s household decided whether to use her. Complex shared court labour.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactJoan is examined at Chinon and received into Charles of Valois’s war council circuit
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 6 March 1429 · verified
A rival Valois court accepting a non-noble military adviser is a dated check on English-Burgundian occupation legitimacy, not a modern election.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.39 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Saint Joan of ArcEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Forteresse royale de ChinonCentre des monuments nationaux / Chinon · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
The Chinon fortress interpretation and Britannica independently date the 1429 reception.
Established: a 1429 Chinon examination and reception into Charles’s circuit. Not established: that visions are historically verified events, or that Joan already commanded the royal army.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJoan of Arc
- contributed toFactJoan is examined at Chinon and received into Charles of Valois’s war council circuit
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Joan is examined at Chinon and received into Charles of Valois’s war council circuit. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-chinon-1429
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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