his chaplain, Nicolle, and his squire, Guillebert de Lannoy, who kept a journal. He stopped at the courts of Provence, Savoy, Genoa, Sicily, Rhodes, Constantinople and Cyprus, and did not return to Paris until June 1406. His group left behind some inscriptions in the old refectory of Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai. He then made a trip to Prussia, for by 1407 he had brought back a young Lithuanian and was paying for his education in Tournai. This boy may have been an illegitimate child conceived during his travels. On 20 May 1407 Jean fought in a four-a-side mêlée in Valencia. This event originated out of his challenge to Colomat de Santa Coloma to fight under the judgement of either King Martin of Aragon or his son, King Martin of Sicily. Colomat was not even knighted until the day of the mêlée. With him were Pere de Montcada, Peyronat de Santa Coloma and Bernabò de l'Uovo. With Jean de Werchin were Jacques de Montenay of Normandy, Tanguy du Châtel of Brittany and Jean Carmen. When the French appeared to have the upper hand, the king of Sicily called an end to the tournament, but so impressed was he with Jean that he asked for his armour, or at least his bassinet, as a gift. War with Liège and the English pas d'armes Jean was preparing to return to Prussia in May 1408, when he bade farewell to his friends at the Golden Head (Tête d'Or) inn in Tournai, but he was forced to turn back shortly after to assist William of Ostrevant—now count of Hainaut—against the prince-bishop of Liège. He was present when the Liègeois were defeated at the battle of Othée on 23 September 1408, leading the largest company from Hainaut: the lords of Jeumont and La Hamaide, plus nine knights, sixty-nine men-at-arms with three horses each, eleven more with two horses, and seventy-eight archers, as well as some men lent him by Duke John of Burgundy. On 7 August 1407, Jean challenged the English knight John Cornewall to a pas d'armes, four knights a side, to be judged by the kings of England and France. On 25 June 1408, having left the war in Liège at least briefly, he was at Ardres, probably to meet Cornewall. In November, Jean wrote a letter to King Henry IV of England, asking permission to joust with a Knight of the