What about that thing with King Henri's Duel?

In I. 35, Nostradamus tells us that a young lion shall conquer the old in a duel, that the older lion's eyes will be put out in a "cage of gold," and that then there shall be two injuries and a death most cruel.  Nostradamus enthusiasts suggest that this refers to the 1559 jousting contest between Henri II of France and the Conte de Montgomery, a much younger man, who impaled the king in the eye and killed him.  Followers of Nostradamus argued that the shields of both men had pictures of lions, and Henri's helmet was made of gold (the "cage of gold").  The lance apparently splintered, resulting in the two injuries (or alternatively, one injury was to Henri and the other was to France).  However, scholars like Lemesurier question whether the shields of the men were even painted with lions, and scoff at the idea that Henri's helmet would have been made with a soft metal like gold.  Moreover, the prophet's Almanach for that year  proudly proclaimed that everything was going to be hunky dory that year for the King, with no mention of his impending doom.  Luckily for Nostradamus, however, his patron Catherine de Medicis seized upon quatrain I.35, suggesting that the prophet's vision had been foretold.    The queen, however, was just wrong.  The word "classes" in the last line probably meant a fleet of ships, and not the Greek word for "injury."  So it wasn't two injuries, but rather two fleets of ships.  The jousting tournament obviously had nothing to do with a fleet of ships.