Charles II of Alençon

Charles de Valois , born towards 1297, dead the August 26th 1346, is the second wire of Charles, count de Valois, and Marguerite of Anjou, and thus brother of the king de France Philippe VI '' of Valois ''.

In April 1314, it marries Jeanne, countess of Joigny, died in 1336, without known posterity of this union.

In December 1336, it marries in second Marie weddings of Cerda (v. 1319-1379), girl of Ferdinand de Castille (1275-apr. 1322), lord of Cerda, and Jeanne Núñez known as “Palomilla” (1286-1351), lady of Lara. Marie of Cerda was widowed in first weddings of Charles d' Évreux (1305-1336), count d' Étampes. One knows at least five children resulting from the union of Charles d' Alençon and Marie of Cerda:

* Charles III of Alençon (1337 † 1375), count d' Alençon, then archbishop of Lyon

* Philippe (1338 † 1397), bishop of Beauvais, then cardinal, archbishop of Rouen

* Pierre II Noble the (1340 † 1404), count d' Alençon, of the Pole and Porhoet

* Isabelle (1342 † 1379), nun in Poissy

* Robert (1344 † 1377), count de Perche who marries Jeanne of Rohan in 1374.

It makes its first weapons in Guyenne under the orders of his father and shows with his first sits a great courage which it pushed to a blind man temerity (1324).

It becomes count d' Alençon and of the Perche in 1326, by transmission of the prerogative of his father. It took share with the baraille Cassel (1328), the catch of Saintes (1330). It intervened then in 1340 in Brittany, in the War of succession of Brittany. It is killed with the Bataille of Crécy (August 26th 1346), where it shows temerity to the avant-garde. It is buried with the Jacobins, but its tomb is transferred to the 19th century with Saint-Denis.

See too

County of Alençon
List of the counts then dukes of Alençon
County of the Pole
List of the counts of the Pole

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