English occupation authorities use the Rouen court as an anti-Valois legitimacy weapon
Through early 1431 the Rouen process functioned as English occupation policy against the Valois restoration that Joan had served. In the causal graph this event weakens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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Through early 1431 the Rouen process functioned as English occupation policy against the Valois restoration that Joan had served.
Context
A show of heresy can be both sincere for some clerks and instrumental for officers. Store the political function without a cartoon of every Dominican as a spy.
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-attack path. High confidence on occupation interest; medium on any one clerk’s inner motive.
A smear of a coronation is not the coronation. 17 July 1429 stands.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Joan of Arc
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
Complex: she is the instrument’s target. Occupation policy aimed at Valois legitimacy.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactEnglish occupation authorities use the Rouen court as an anti-Valois legitimacy weapon
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 February 1431 · verified
Using a heresy court to attack a rival coronation is a documented strike on contested political legitimacy.
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.Historial Jeanne d’Arc — RouenHistorial Jeanne d’Arc / Rouen · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Saint Joan of ArcEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Historial interpretation of the officiality and Britannica independently frame the trial as politically English.
Established: English authorities used the Rouen heresy process against Valois legitimacy. Not established: that every article of accusation was ghost-written in London.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJoan of Arc
- contributed toFactEnglish occupation authorities use the Rouen court as an anti-Valois legitimacy weapon
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). English occupation authorities use the Rouen court as an anti-Valois legitimacy weapon. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-occupation-court-1431
https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-occupation-court-1431
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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