Alencon

Alencon is a commune in Normandy, France, capital of the Oren department. It is placed 173 kilometers west of Paris. Alencon belongs to the intercommunality of Alencon. The call of Alencon is first recorded in a record dated inside the 17th century. During the 10^th century Alencon changed into a buffer country among Normandy and the Maine regions. In 1049 to 1051, William Duke of Normandy later known as William the Conqueror and king of England laid siege to the metropolis, which had risen in assist of the Count of Anjou at the side of different cities of the Belleme estates, Domfront and Belleme.

According to Duke William chaplain and panegyrist, William of Poitiers, the residents insulted William by using putting animal skins from the walls, in reference to his ancestry because the illegitimate son of Duke Robert and a tanner's daughter. On taking pictures the metropolis William had some of the citizen hands and toes lessen off in revenge. Alencon turn out to be occupied with the aid of manner of the English during the Anglo Norman wars of 1113 to 1203.