Garter or else any "knight of renown" from England before either the king or Prince Henry of Wales acting as judge. The king, believing Jean intended to fight all the Knights of the Garter at once, urged him to challenge them one at a time. In June 1409, Jean and Cornewall twice came almost to blows: once before the duke of Burgundy at Lille and then again before the king of France at Paris, but both times the king prevented an actual joust from taking place. In July the two knights fought in a tournament at Smithfield in England. Eight knights from Hainaut fought eight from England in a series of one-on-one jousts over eight days. Jean, leading the men of Hainau, was unseated in his contest by the English leader, John Beaufort, earl of Somerset. French service Between 1411 and 1415 Jean was generally in the service of the king of France. According to the accounts of the king's war treasurer, Jean de Pressy, he was a banneret leading a "chamber" of ten squires within a company of the duke of Burgundy's men at Bourges in 1412. Between 1412 and 1414 he went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, passing through Barcelona—from where he wrote a letter—on the way. Then, on 30 March 1414, his receiver for Cysoing remitted 200 écus à la couronne to pay for a knight, three noblemen, two priests, ten valets, a herald of arms, two men to accompany his chest, two pages and a pavilion for Jean's upcoming voyage, the destination of which has not come down. He was back by 9 November, when he looked over the accounts of Cysoing at his castle in Biez. In 1398 Jean married Marguerite, daughter of Count Guy I of Ligny of the House of Luxembourg and widow since 1384 of Count Peter of Lecce. The marriage contracts were drawn up on 22 February and 8 March 1398. Marguerite died in March 1406. In 1412 Jean signed an agreement with her first husband's relative, Engelbert d'Enghien, concerning the inheritance of Lecce (called Liches in the French document). Although three acts of certification (vidimus) of Jean's will are known, the will itself does not survive. He died at the Battle of Agincourt, fighting on the French side. His heir was his sister Jeanne. Poet Jean was famous in contemporary literary circles. He became a minister of the