In early
mêlée -style engagements, where the combats took on the form of real combats, there were a number of deaths, sometimes of notable persons. Sometimes these early
tourneys fell into real fighting, where many were slain. Among the famous slain in tournaments:- Geoffrey, Count of Brittany, Son on Henry II, killed near Paris,1186- Conrad, son of margrave Dietrich von der Lausitz, 1175- Leopold, Duke of Austria, slain by a fallen horse in 1194
