Chess-board of Alençon

The chess-board of Alençon , was a chess-board particular for the bailliage of Alençon and independent of the general chess-board of Normandy, which was held with Rouen.

The name of chess-board comes is of what the first chess-board, which was that of Normandy, would have been held in a room whose paving stone was made black and white square stones alternatively, like the aprons or chess-boards being used to play failures is of what there was on the desk a chequered carpet of black and white.

The chess-boards had some relationship with bases with this difference which they judged in last spring.

The chess-board of Alençon was established when the county of Alençon was given in Apanage to princes of the house of France, or perhaps even as of time when the counts d' Alençon were vassal dukes of Normandy. During the erection of the chess-board of Normandy in court of Parliament, in 1515, the bailliage of Alençon was not spring of the chess-board of Normandy. Charles de Valois, duke of Alençon, which enjoyed it as Apanage, there made hold its chess-board independent of that of Rouen.

With its death in 1525 without children, his widow, the duchess Marguerite de Navarre, single sister of François I {{er}}, remained in possession of its chess-board until its death, which has occurred in 1548.

The Parlement of Rouen then asserted its old spring on the bailliage of Alençon and appointed with the king Henri II, to require the meeting of the chess-board of Alençon of that of Rouen, but the Parlement of Paris was opposed to it because Alençon was a Pairie, as well as Alençonnais themselves which wished to preserve their chess-board with the right to judge supremely.

Following an assembly held in the bailliage of Alençon, the king ordered in 1550, by letters patent, that all the causes of the bailliage of Alençon would be returned to the Parliament of Rouen, to be judged there supremely and that the Duché of Alençon was turned over to the crown and was reduced to the spring of the Parliament of Rouen. The judges of the bailliage of Alençon accepted the injunction to appear every year at the court as it was the use of the other seats.

Charles IX having given, in 1566 the duchy of Alençon in prerogative to his/her brother François de France, the Parliament of Paris tried to be made allot the jurisdiction of the calls of this bailliage, with the reason that this duchy was a Pairie. The Parliament of Rouen, on its side, having represented with the king that Henri II had restored it in his old rights on the bailliage of Alençon in 1550, nothing was changed.

François d' Alençon occupied himself nevertheless to replace his prerogative on the same foot as under the last duke while obtaining, in spite of the objections of the Parliament of Rouen, of the king to make hold in Alençon a chess-board to judge the lawsuits in last spring. It is only after the death of the duke François d' Alençon, in 1584, that the Parliament of Rouen did not return in its right of spring on the bailliage of Alençon and that the chess-board of Alençon was removed by letters patent of the month of June 1584.

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