Poets and Warriors sail for Troy!
Here are the accounts of Joisting Tournaments held at Rougemont castle where my Rosemont kindred might hail.
Jon Presco
After Easter of the year of the Lord 1172, the same count came to
> make a tournament in Burgundy between Montbard [ Coast-in Or ]
and Rougemont, with approximately hundred knights with his costs. The
count of Nevers, which had the castle of Rougemont in its field, had
prohibited to make the tournament with all those which would come
and it refused to lodge the count in his castle of Rougemont. But the
count de Hainaut, in spite of this prohibition was made lodge
with the castle. The following day, as the count de Hainaut was on his
side accompanied by five knights of his ground and than on other
side came with the duke from Burgundy [ Hughes III ] much from knights
filled of pride, escorted sergeants with…
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