he crashed one of emeric's parties, got drunk and slept on their sofa and was NOT shooed out in the morning but invited to breakfast and to share emeric's carriage back to val royeaux because he thought he was a blast. gwenaëlle would have Heard About It but probably never met him. (he also totally could have banged a cousin, but her cousins are all so distantly related to her it's unlikely she'd know about it.)