Jean II, Duke of Alençon (died 1476)

Jean II, Duke of Alençon

15th-century Duke of Alençon

Jean II of Alençon was a French nobleman. He succeeded his father as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche as a minor in 1415, after the latter's death at the Battle of Agincourt. He is best known as a general in the last phase of the Hundred Years' War and for his role as a…