 Sir Robert Knolles, who is held to have participated in the fictional jousts in "Sir Nigel", was also one of the original thirty combatants.Subsequent to the joust, where he tries to take on Beaumanoir himself and is severely wounded, Nigel Loring is left to recover at the Castle of Ploermel by his comrades, and proceeds to convalesce in the course of a year, which sees the breaking of the truce, a defeat of French arms in Brittany and the declaration of another truce.Nigel is by then made seneschal of the Castle of Vannes.