Alençon
Alençon was a French royal appanage on the border of Normandy and Maine, with its seat at Bellême. In 1337 Count Charles II of Valois held it under the French crown.
Charles was killed fighting the English at Crécy in 1346. Alençon became a duchy in 1414, but its first duke John died at Agincourt the next year. His son John II was captured at Verneuil in 1424 and recovered the English-held duchy in 1449. It reverted to the crown when Charles IV died childless in 1524.
Characters
- Amaury III de Craon
- Amaury IV de Craon
- Béatrice de Roucy-Pierrepont
- Charles II, Count of Alençon
- Charles III, Count of Alençon
- Guillaume I de Craon
- Isabeau de Craon
- Jean III de Craon
- Jeanne de Craon
- Margaret of Dampierre
- María de la Cerda y de Lara
- Maurice VII de Craon
- Peter I of Alençon
- Pierre I de Craon