The knight Jean de Plessis said he came from Besançon. Besançon was a Burgundian territory adjacent to Count Belfort's domain, west of Rosenheim, ruled by a baronial family. The Baron of Besançon was the lord whose predecessor Adolf had killed twenty years ago during the war, along with Count Montferrand, when he led the Beren Lance Cavalry.
So even though the conflict in the northwest was a local war unrelated to Besançon, the fact that they had dispatched Jean de Plessis and roughly four hundred troops spoke to the depth of their grudge against the Duchy of Beren. The more pressing concern was the current war situation in the northwest. Had the duchy government been informed of the invasion by now?
