# Joan is subjected to bodily examinations used as trial evidence

Date: 1431

## The fact

During the Rouen process Joan underwent bodily examinations whose results the court treated as relevant to the case. This catalog stores that coerced inspection. It is not a hospital reform and not gossip about private life.

## Context

Medieval trials used virginity as a political-theological token. That use is a welfare harm to the prisoner. It does not license later biography as bedroom history.

[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

Historial trial interpretation and Britannica independently record examinations as part of the 1431 process.

Official or archival record: Historial Jeanne d’Arc — Rouen (https://www.historial-jeannedarc.fr/en/; Historial Jeanne d’Arc / Rouen).

## Significance

Bodily-integrity path. High confidence that examinations occurred; the driver is analogical, not a ward-bed series.

An inspection is not a vision. Do not convert the body file into a miracle.

## What is established and what is not

Established: bodily examinations in the 1431 process. Not established: a clinical diagnosis, or that the exams were care.

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

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.historial-jeannedarc.fr/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-virginity-exam-1431