[2] In 1285, he brought to Chauvency-le-Château one of the most famous jousting tournaments (a “tournament of chivalry”) of the Middle Ages, which pitted knights from the Empire, France, Lotharingia, Hainault, Flanders, and England, against each other in two days of solo-contest jousting and a final day of massed mêlée fighting.
[3] A list of the participants at the tournament, which includes nearly 100 named individuals, can be found here.
Jeanne already had three children from her first marriage: Henry (d.1331) sire de Blâmont and seneschal of Lorraine, Joffroi (mentioned in 1253) and Thomas (princier of Verdun and subsequently Bishop, d.1305).
Until she became Countess of Chiny in spring 1268 she was styled as 'dame de Blâmont' and used her own seal.
[5] Louis and Jeanne had no children and, after his death, Chiny reverted to his nephew Arnold V of Looz.