Several counts and then royal dukes of Alençon have figured in French history. The title has been awarded to a younger brother of the French sovereign...

Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon. The Valois descended from Charles, Count of Valois (1270–1325), the second surviving son of King Philip III of France (reigned...

eldest son Charles III. Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Alençon of the House of Valois Coat of arms of the counts of Perche de Venette 1953, p. 312...

House of Valois-Alençon. He was the son of John II of Alençon and Marie of Armagnac. In 1478, he was restored as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche...

Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-521-43294-4. Titles of the counts and dukes of Anjou in the 11-16th...

I of Alençon, by whom she was ancestor of the later counts and dukes of Alençon. Barton 2004, p. xiii. Kathryn Ann Dutton (2011), Geoffrey, Count of Anjou...

Officers of the Crown of France Marshal of France Constable of France Prince of Condé Prince of Conti Dukes of Aiguillon Counts and dukes of Alençon Counts and...

Valois, Count of Chartres [fr] (1318-1328), Count of Chartres, son of Charles of Valois and Mahaut of Châtillon 1328-1346 Charles II of Alençon (1297 †...

descendants of John, Count of Angoulême, from 1515 to 1589. Other Valois branches are: the dukes of Alençon, descendants of Charles, a younger son of Charles...

François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon (French: Hercule François; 18 March 1555 – 10 June 1584) was the youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine...

the son of Peter II of Alençon and Marie Chamaillard. In 1404, he succeeded his father as Count of Alençon and Perche. He was made Duke of Alençon in 1414...

without children of the last Duke of Alençon in 1525, it returned to the crown, and was granted only sporadically thereafter. The lords of Perche were originally...

and three temporal, and the dukes all ranked above the counts. The Prince-Bishops with ducal territories included: The Archbishop of Reims, styled archevêque-duc...

II of Alençon (Jean II d’Alençon) (2 March 1409 – 8 September 1476) was a French nobleman. He succeeded his father as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche...

as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche, and was also Count of Armagnac, Fézensac, Viscount of Rodez, Count of Fezensaguet, l'Isle-Jourdain, and Perdiac...

cementing of position was important for another reason: with the death of Charles IV, Duke of Alençon, in 1525, Charles became the next in line (prince of the...

of France, Count of Clermont, and Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of the lordship of Bourbon. In 1416, with the death of John of Valois, the Dukes of Bourbon...

of René of Alençon and Margaret of Lorraine, and the younger sister and despoiled heiress of Charles IV, Duke of Alençon. The sister and heiress of Charles...

of her paternal family, the Dukes in Bavaria. She was a daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. The ninth of ten...

The following is a list of monarchs during the history of Bavaria. Bavaria was ruled by several dukes and kings, partitioned and reunited, under several...

with the Dukes of Lorraine. Frederick was born c. 1428 as the son of Antoine of Lorraine, Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville, and Marie of Harcourt...

Prince Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu, the Imperial consort of Brazil (through his marriage to Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil), and younger sister...

Count of Alençon, 1337–1375 Philip of Alençon, 1339–1397 Peter II, Count of Alençon, 1340–1404 John I, Duke of Alençon, 1385–1415 John II, Duke of Alençon...

Dukes of Alençon and Bourbon, the counts of Vendôme and Laval, Marshals Gilles de Rais and La Hire and their troops, lodged in the village of La Chapelle...

prevailed and the contract of betrothal was signed on 21 March 1501 at Moulins, Alençon being eleven years old and Suzanne nine. Two years later, and before...

Philip VI in 1328. Alençon and Perche passed to Charles's younger son, Charles. A descendant was raised to the dignity of Duke of Alençon. These titles returned...

Marquises and Dukes of Montferrat were the rulers of a territory in Piedmont south of the Po and east of Turin called Montferrat. The March of Montferrat...

Orléans, and the counts of Alençon, Clermont, and Armagnac, formed a league against the duke of Burgundy in 1410. Charles of Orléans, son of the murdered...

and only descendant of the Alençon, died without heirs. His death opened the theoretical possibility for the Head of the House of Orléans-Braganza to...

both king of Western Francia and ruled during the Carolingian era. His daughter Richildis married a count of Troyes. The family became Counts of Paris under...