Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

Ter deca vque ualens annis et mensibus octo
Malcolmus decus rex erat in Scocia.
Anglorum gladiis in bello sternitur heros
Hic rex in Scocia primus humatus erat
Douer cum suis confugerat Tandem Godwinusum cum rege placitare uolentem postquam bis super regem
excercitum duxerat ⁊ secundo dilapsus fuerat ab eo subter fugientem diem constitutum cum vque filiis rex
exlegauit. Rex Edw’ Willelmum comitem Bastard Normannie, ad se in Anglia uenientem magno
cum honore suscepit, ⁊ multis donatum muneribus ad propria remisit.

Anno moloiio Emma que ⁊ Elgiua quondam regina Anglorum obiit Wint’. Rex Edw’ ⁊
comes Godw’ ⁊ filii sui adinuicem reconciliati sunt receptis pristinis dignitatibus suis ⁊ Norman
ni fere omnes ab Anglia exlegantur. Rodbertus Dorobern’ archiepiscopus cum suis euadens uix, recessit
ab Anglia.
Anno moloiiio caput Res fratris Griffini regis Walensium ad regem Edw’ in vigilia Ep’ apud
Glawornam allatum est. Godwinus comes feria iia pa\s/che ad mensam iuxta regem mutus
permanens, ⁊ inde a filiis suis exportatus in cameram regis va post hec feria uita dicessit, cui succes
sit Haroldus filius eius in comitatum, ⁊ Haroldi comitatus datus est Algaro Leofrici comitis fi
lio.
Anno moloiiiio dux Northimbrorum Siwardus iussu regis Edw’ Scottiam cum multo1 excerci
tu intrans prelium cum rege Scottorum, Macbeoth2 committens illum fugauit, ⁊ Malcolmum
ut rex iusserat regem constituit. Rex Edw’ misit Aldredum Wigorn’ episcopum ad imperatorem
ut per eum reciperet frat\u/elem suum Edwardum, qui in Ungaria exulauerat.

Anno molovo Siwardus dux Northimbrorum Eboraci obiit, cuius ducatus Tostio fratri Haroldi du
cis datus est. Non multo post Algarus filius Leofrici comitis sine culpa a rege Edw’ exlegatus,
Hyberniam mox petiit, ⁊ xviiio piratis nauibus adquisitis, ⁊ auxilio regis Walensium
Griffrini maxime fretus, tandem suum comitatum recuperauit, combusta prius ciuitate Herefor
densi ⁊ monasterio Sancti Alberti regis ⁊ martiris ⁊ quibusdam canonicis occisis, ⁊ cccctis uel eo amplius ceteris.
¶Lulach quatuor menses ⁊ dimidium regnauitMensibus3 infelix Lulach tribus extitererat4 rex
Anno molovio obiit Henricus imperator, cui successit Henricus filius eius. Obiit sancte memorie Edelsta
nus Hereford’ episcopus cui Leuegarus ducis Haroldi capellanus successit, qui eodem anno a rege Wa
norum5 Grifino cum suis clericis ⁊ multis aliis occisus est. Agelricus Dunelm’ episcopus sponte
episcopatum relinquens ad monasterium suum Burch rediit ibique uitam finiuit, cui successit
frater eius Agelwinus. ¶Malcolmus filius Dunecani suscepit regnum Scocie iure hereditario.
Anno moloviio clito Edwardus Edmundi Ferrei Lateris regis filius pro quo rex in
Ungaria miserat ut regem post se substitueret obiit Lund’. Obiit bone memorie Leo
fricus comes ducis Leofewini filius qui cum sua uxore Godiua cenobium Conuentre
de suo patrimonio construxerunt, ubi ⁊ sepultus est, cui successit Algarus filius eius.

Anno moloviiio Algarus comes secundo a rege Edw’ exlegatus est sed regis Walanorum
Grifini iuuamine ⁊ Noreganice classis, per uim suum comitatum recepit. Aldredus Wigor
nensis mare transiens per Ungariam Ierosolimam profectus est.

Anno moloixo Nicholaus Florentine ciuitatis episcopus papa eligitur, ⁊ Benedictus eicitur.

Anno molxo obiit Henricus rex Francorum cui successit Philippus filius eius. Obiit Kinsius Eboracensis
archiepiscopus, cui successit Aldredus Wigornesiis6 episcopus, ⁊ Herefordensis presulatus est datus
Armis eiusdem Malcolomi cecidit. Fata uiri fuerant in Stratbolgin aput Esseg. Heu sic incaute
rex miser occubuit. Hos in pace uiros tenet insula Ioua sepultos. In tumulo regum iudi
cis usque diem.

Notes

1 DB: The phrase Northimbrorum … multo has been written over an erasure.
2 DB: Macbeotha in Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 139 (Historia Regum) f. 99v.
3 JT: There is an erasure in the margin, probably written by the same scribe and relating to this verse.
4 DB: Read extiterat. The contraction for er has been written twice.
5 DB: Read Walanorum.
6 DB: Altered by a later scribe from Wigornenis to Wigornesis by writing s over the first minim of the second n, and underpointing the second minim for deletion.
Thriving for thirty-five years and 8 months,
Máel Coluim was a worthy king in Scotland.
The hero is laid low in battle by the swords of the English.
He was the first king to be buried in Scotland.
Dover Castle. The king at length outlawed Godwine with his 5 sons—Godwine, wishing to make peace with the king (after he had twice led an army against the king, and on the second occasion had escaped from him), fleeing secretly on the appointed day. King Eadweard received with great honour Duke William Bastard of Normandy, who was coming to him in England, and he sent him back to his own land, having been presented with many gifts.

In the 1052nd year Emma, also known as Ælfgifu, formerly queen of the English, died at Winchester. King Eadweard and Earl Godwine and his sons were reconciled with each other after Godwine and his sons recovered their former dignities; and almost all Normans are expelled from England. Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, scarcely escaping with his household, withdrew from England.
In the 1053rd year the head of Rhys, brother of Gruffudd, king of the Welsh, was brought to King Eadweard at Gloucester on the eve of Epiphany. On the 2nd day of Easter, Earl Godwine, losing the power of speech while at table beside the king, was thereupon carried out by his sons to the king’s chamber; and on the 5th day after this his life departed. His son Harold succeeded him in his earldom, and Harold’s earldom was granted to Ælfgar son of Earl Leofric.
In the 1054th year Siward, earl of the Northumbrians, entering Scotland with a great army at the command of King Eadweard, engaged in battle with Mac Bethad, king of the Scots, and put him to flight, and—as the king had instructed—set up Máel Coluim as king. King Eadweard sent Ealdred, bishop of Worcester, to the emperor so that he might bring back with him his father’s brother’s son, Eadweard, who had been in exile in Hungary.

In the 1055th year Siward, earl of the Northumbrians, died at York, whose earldom was granted to Tostig, brother of Earl Harold. Not long afterwards Ælfgar son of Leofric, although blameless, was outlawed by King Eadweard. He soon made for Ireland and, having procured 18 pirate ships, he at length regained his earldom—supported greatly by the help of Gruffudd, king of the Welsh—having previously burnt the city of Hereford and the monastery of St Æthelberht, king and martyr, and killed some of the canons, and 400 or more others at that place.
¶Lulach reigned for four-and-a-half months. Unlucky Lulach was king for three months.
In the 1056th year the emperor Henry died; his son Henry succeeded him. Æthelstan, of sacred memory, bishop of Hereford, died; Leofgar, Earl Harold’s chaplain, succeeded him. He was killed in the same year, with his clerks and many others, by Gruffudd, king of the Welsh. Æthelric, bishop of Durham, giving up the bishopric of his own accord, returned to his monastery of Peterborough, and there he finished his life; his brother Æthelwine succeeded him. ¶Máel Coluim son of Donnchad received the kingdom of Scotland by hereditary right.
In the 1057th year Eadweard the ætheling, son of King Eadmund Ironside, who the king had sent for in Hungary so that he might take his place as king after him, died in London. Earl Leofric, of good memory, son of Earl Leofwine, who from his patrimony, with his wife Godgifu, built the convent of Coventry, where he was buried; his son Ælfgar succeeded him.

In the 1058th year Earl Ælfgar was outlawed by King Eadweard for a second time; but by force he recovered his earldom, with the assistance of Gruffudd, king of the Welsh, and a Norwegian fleet. Ealdred of Worcester, crossing by sea, set out for Jerusalem via Hungary.

In the 1059th year Nicholas, bishop of the city of Florence, is elected pope, and Benedict is cast out.

In the 1060th year Henry king of the French died; his son Philip succeeded him. Cynesige archbishop of York died; Ealdred, bishop of Worcester, succeeded him; and the prelacy of Hereford was given to
He fell by the arms of the same Máel Coluim. The men met their fates at Essie, in Strathbogie. Thus, alas, the pitiable
king perished through lack of caution. The island of Iona holds these men in peace, buried in the graveyard of kings until the
Day of Judgement.

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