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René of Alençon (1454 – 1 November 1492) was a French nobleman. He succeeded his father John II of Alençon as Duke of Alençon.
René de Valois, né en 1454, mort à Alençon le 1 er novembre 1492, duc d'Alençon et comte du Perche, fils de Jean II, duc d'Alençon et comte du Perche, et de Marie d'Armagnac fille de Jean IV.
10 de abr. de 2010 · René of Alençon (1454–November 1, 1492, Chateau d'Alençon, age 37–38), 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 father after his conviction in 1474.
A third house of Alençon counts descended from Charles, second son of the Count of Valois, who was killed at the Battle of Crécy in 1346. The county of Alençon was raised to a dukedom in 1414. Jean, 1st Duc d'Alençon, was killed at Agincourt, 1415, after having with his own hand slain the Duke of York.
King René is a historical character present in many regions of France: in Lorraine, in Provence, and in Anjou of course, where he was born in 1409! He was the son of Yolande of Aragon and Duke Louis II of Anjou.
René d'Anjou, dit le Bon Roi René, né le 16 janvier 1409 à Angers et mort le 10 juillet 1480 à Aix-en-Provence, est un prince du sang français de la lignée des ducs d'Anjou issue de Louis Ier d'Anjou (1339-1384), fils du roi Jean II le Bon.
Charles IV of Alençon (2 September 1489 in Alençon – 11 April 1525 in Lyon) was the son of René of Alençon and Margaret of Vaudémont. He succeeded his father in 1492 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.
