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René of Alençon
Duke of Alençon
Count of Perche
Born1454
Died1 November 1492(1492-11-01) (aged 37–38)
Chateau d'Alençon
Noble familyHouse of Valois-Alençon
Spouse(s)Marguerite of Harcourt
Margaret of Lorraine
FatherJohn II of Alençon
MotherMarie of Armagnac
Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Alençon of the House of Valois.Coat of arms of the counts of Perche.

René of Alençon (1454 – 1 November 1492) was a French nobleman. He succeeded his father John II of Alençon as Duke of Alençon.

Life

René was born in 1454 to the 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, titles which had been confiscated from his family after his father's conviction in 1474.

Family

His first wife was Marguerite, daughter of William of Harcourt, Count of Tancarville.

He married a second time on 14 May 1488 at Toul, to Margaret of Lorraine (1463 – 1 November 1521), daughter of Frederick, Count of Vaudémont and Yolande of Anjou. Margaret bore him three children:

  1. Charles IV of Alençon (1489–1525)
  2. Françoise of Alençon (c. 1490 – 14 September 1550, La Fleche), Duchess of Beaumont, married 1505 in Blois, François, Duke of Longueville (d. 1512), married 1513 Charles, Duke of Vendôme
  3. Anne (30 October 1492 – 18 October 1562, Casale Monferrato), Lady of la Guerche, married 31 August 1508 in Blois William IX Paleologos, Marquess of Montferrat

He also had several illegitimate children:

  1. Charles (d. 1545), Lord of Cany
  2. Marguerite, married 1485 Jacques de Boisguyon, married Henri de Bournel
  3. Jacqueline, married Gilles des Ormes

Ancestry

Ancestors of René, Duke of Alençon
16. Charles II of Alençon
8. Peter II of Alençon
17. Maria de la Cerda
4. John I of Alençon
18. Guillaume Chamaillard
9. Marie de Chamaillard
19. Marie de Beaumont-Brienne
2. John II of Alençon
20. John of Montfort
10. John IV, Duke of Brittany
21. Joanna of Flanders
5. Marie of Brittany
22. Charles II of Navarre
11. Joanna of Navarre
23. Joan of Valois
1. René, Duke of Alençon
24. John II, Count of Armagnac
12. Bernard VII of Armagnac
25. Jeanne de Périgord
6. John IV of Armagnac
26. John, Duke of Berry
13. Bonne de Berry
27. Joanna of Armagnac
3. Marie of Armagnac
28. Charles II of Navarre
14. Charles III of Navarre
29. Joan of Valois
7. Isabella of Navarre
30. Henry II of Castile
15. Eleanor of Castile
31. Juana Manuel of Castile

References

  1. ^ Potter 1995, p. 375.
  2. Hickson 2012, p. 113.

Sources

  • Hickson, Sally Anne (2012). Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua. Ashgate Publishing.
  • Potter, David (1995). Keen, Maurice (ed.). A History of France, 1460–1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. Macmillan.
René, Duke of Alençon House of Valois-AlençonCadet branch of the Capetian dynastyBorn: 1454 Died: 1 November 1492
Preceded byJohn II Duke of Alençon
1478–1492 		Succeeded byCharles IV
Count of Perche
1478–1492


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