Sancto Petro in aura ⁊ argento optulit, ⁊ ut scola Anglorum
libera esset a Iohanne papa impetrauit.
Anno moxxxoiio ecclesia Sancti Edmundi regis ⁊ martiris dedicata est, in
qua rex Cnutus
communi consilio, presulum ⁊ optimatum suorum eiectis presbyteris
secularibus monachos imposu
it. Ignis pene inextinguibilis multa per Angliam loca
concremauit. Obiit Alfsige Win
toniensis episcopus, cui successit Ælfwinus presbiter
regis.
Anno moxxxoiiio obiit Leofsius magne religionis Wictiorum episcopus, cui
successit Persorensisis abbas
Brithegus. ¶Iste Malcolmus non habuit
filium set filiam que
erat uxor abbatis Crini et Ex illa genuit Duncanum nomine natum .'.
Anno moxxxoiiiio obiit Malcolmus rex Scottorum, & Dunecanus1
nepos eius ei successit.2
.'.Qui senis
annis rex erat Albanie. A Finleg natus percussit eum Macabeta Wlnere
letali rex aput Elgin obiit.
Anno moxxxovo Cnutus rex Anglorum ante suum obitum super
Noreganos Swanum filium
suum constituit, super Danos Hardecnutum3 ⁊ Emme regine filium
regem locauit, super Anglos
Haroldum filium ex Hamtuensi Ælgiua procreatum, ⁊
postea ii idus Nouembr’ apud Scaftes
beriam uita decessit, ⁊ Wintonie in ueteri
monasterio satis honorifice tumulatur. Non mul
to post tamen regnum Anglie inter
Haroldum ⁊ Hardecnutum diuiditur. Rodbertus dux Norman
norum obiit, cui successit
filius eius Will’ bastard, puer.
Anno moxxxovi innocentes clitones Alwredus ⁊ Ædwardus regis Ægelredi
filii ad col
loquium matris sue, Angliam de Ricardo auunculo suo uenerunt. Quorum
socios comes
Godwinus quosdam catenauit, ⁊ postea cecauit non nullos cute capitis
abstracta cru
ciauit, ⁊ manibus ⁊ pedibus amputatis multauit, multos etiam uenundari
fecit, ⁊ mor
tibus uariis ac miserabilibus apud Gelgdefordiam sexcentos uiros
occidit. Aluredi
uero oculos insidiis intercepti iussit erui, apud Heli, ibique
non multo post mortuus est
Edwardus uero rediit in Normannia cum festinatione.
Rodbertus rex Francorum filius Hug’
obiit, hic sancto fine quieuit, cui successit
Henricus filius eius.
Anno moxxxoviio Haroldus rex Merciorum ⁊ Northumbrorum ut per totam Angliam
regnaret
a principibus ⁊ populo spreto fratre suo Hardecnuto quia nimium
quia in Denemarchia
morabatur eligitur. Emma quondam regina
inmisericorditer ab Anglia expulsa, ab4
Aldwi
no Flandrensium comite honorifice suscipitur.
Anno moxxxviiio obiit Ægelnotus
Dorobernensis episcopus, cuius obitus die vii Agelricus Suthsaxo
num presul ut a
Deo5 petierat, ne post
tantum patrem diu remaneret obiit. Edsius
capellanus regis suscepit
archiepiscopatum Cant’, Gimketel episcopatum Suthsaxonum. Obiit Bri
thegus
Wigornensis episcopus, cui successit Liuingus.
Anno moxxxoixo hyemps extitit asperima. Obiit Brithmarus Licefeldensis
episcopus, cui
Wlsius sucessit. Hardecnutus rex Danorum Flandriam deuectus ad
matrem suam Emmam
uenit. Obiit Dunecanus rex Scottorum,
cuius regnum Macbet sibi usurpauit. Ergo6 Rex Macabda
Anno moxlo obiit Haroldus rex Lundon’, ⁊ in Westm’ sepelitur. Hardecnutus in regem
eleuatus grauiter necem fratris sui, Alwredi super defunctum fratrem ulsciscitur. Caput
enim
defuncti regis Haroldi, de terra extractum postea in gronnam demum in
Tamensem
fluuium proicere iussit. Godwinus multis donariis ⁊ per \ius/ iurandum sui ⁊ multorum aliorum
nobilium regem sibi
pacificauit.
in gold and silver to St Peter, and obtained from Pope John
that the school of the English1 should be free.
In the 1032nd year the church of St Eadmund, king and
martyr, was dedicated, in which King Knútr, by the general advice of his prelates and
more important men, placed monks after expelling the secular priests. An almost
inextinguishable fire burnt many places throughout England. Ælfsige, bishop of
Winchester, died; Ælfwine, the king’s priest, succeeded him.
In the 1033rd year Leofsige, of great religion, bishop of Worcester,
died; the abbot of Pershore, Beorhtheah,
succeeded him.
¶This Máel Coluim did not have a son, but a daughter
who was wife of the abbot, Crínán, and by her he begot a son, Donnchad by name, .'.
In the 1034th year Máel Coluim king of Scots died and Donnchad his grandson succeeded him.
.'.Who was king of Alba for six years. Mac Bethad, offspring from Finnlaech,
struck him. The king died of a fatal wound at Elgin.
In the 1035th year, before his
death, Knútr, king of the English, set his son Svein over the Norwegians; placed
Harthacnut, [his] and Queen Emma’s son, over the Danes; over the English, Harold the son
begot from Ælgifu the Hamptonian.2 And afterwards he departed from this life at
Shaftesbury on 12 November, and is buried with appropriate honour in the Old Minster of
Winchester. Not long afterwards, however, the kingdom of England is divided between
Harold and Harthacnut. Robert, duke of Normandy, died; his son, William Bastard, a boy,
succeeded him.
In the 1036th year the innocent
athelings Ælfred and Eadweard, sons of King Æthelred, came to England from their uncle,
Richard, to a conference with their mother. Earl Godwin placed some of their associates
in fetters, several he tortured by pulling away the skin of their heads and punished by
amputating both hands and feet; he also had many sold as slaves, and he killed six
hundred men at Guildford by various and pitiable deaths. Moreover, he ordered the eyes
of Ælfred, who had been taken in an ambush, to be gouged out, at Ely, where he died not
long afterwards. Eadweard, however, returned to Normandy in haste. Robert, king of the
French, son of Hugh, died—he rested with a holy end; Henry his son succeeded
him.
In the 1037th year Harold, king of the
Mercians and Northumbrians, is chosen by leaders and people so that he was ruling
throughout all England, his brother Harthacnut having been rejected because he was
staying a great deal because in Denmark. Emma, formerly queen, is received
honourably by [B]aldwin, count of Flanders, after having been expelled from England
without mercy.
In the 1038th year Æthelnoth, bishop of
Canterbury, died; on the 7th day of his death Athelric,
bishop of the South Saxons, died, as he had sought from God, lest he survived for long
after such a father. Eadsige, the king’s chaplain, received the archiepiscopacy of
Canterbury, and Gimketel the bishopric of Sussex. Brihtheah bishop of Worcester died;
Lyfing succeeded him.
In the 1039th year there was
a notably severe winter. Brithmær, bishop of Lichfield, died; Wulfsige succeeded him.
Harthacnut sailed down and came to his mother, Emma. Donnchad, king of Scots, died; Mac Bethad usurped his kingdom for himself. Therefore Mac Bethad
In the 1040th year King Harold
died in London and is buried in Westminster. Harthacnut—now raised as king—violently
avenged the murder of his brother Ælfred on the deceased brother. Indeed, he commanded
[his people] to throw the head of the deceased king, Harold—pulled out from the
earth—into a bog, and finally into the River Thames. Godwine made peace with the king
for himself with many gifts, and by the oath he himself and many other nobles gave.