Philippe loves nothing like a good duel. As it happens, Louis XIV outlawed those. He might not have arrested his own cousin for it - exile him from court, now...
While all of the other couples seem Happily Married, Yorick and Maelle comparatively spend very little time together, and are not as tender or horny with each other. It might have to do with the fact that Maelle, the leader of the local resistance movement against Rome, saw Yorick send her only son to the capital of the Empire as a student/hostage, and he came back completely changed.
