monasterium Rumeseia intrauit, ⁊ sanctimonialem habitum suscepit.
Anno molxxxoviio reliquie Sancti Nicholai de Mirreia usque ad Barum transferuntur. Aldwinus
prior Dunelmensis decessit. Rex Will’ in Frantiam cum excercitu uenit ⁊ opidum
quod Mathun
tun nuncupatur, ⁊ omnes ecclesias in eo sitas, duosque reclusos igne
succendit, ⁊ inde Norman
niam rediit. Sed in isto reditu, dirus uiscerum dolor illum
apprehendit, ⁊ magis ac magis de
die in diem grauabat. Cum autem ingrauescente
egritudine diem sibi mortis imminere sensisset
fratrem suum Odonem Baiocensem
episcopum, ⁊ comites Morkarum, ⁊ Rog’ ⁊ Siwardum cognomento
Barn, ⁊ Wlnotum, regis
Haroldi germanum quem a pueritia in custodia, ⁊ omnes quos uel in An
glia, uel in
Normannia, custodie manciparat relaxauit. Deinde filio suo Willelmo regnum
tradidit Anglie, ⁊ Rodberto primogenito suo, qui tunc in Francia exulabat comitatum
Normannie concessit, ⁊ sic celesti uiatico munitus postquam xxti annis, mensibus xi genti Anglorum
prefuit vo iduum Septembrium die regnum cum uita perdidit, ⁊ Cadomi
in ecclesia Sancti Stepha
ni sepultus est ⁊ quam ipse a fundamentis construerat
bonis ditauerat. Will’ autem filius eius Angliam
festinato adiit, ducens secum
Morkarum ⁊ Wlnotum, sed mox ut Wintoniam uenit illos ut
prius fuerant custodie
mancipauit. Post hec vio kal’ Octobris die dominico in
Westm’ a
Lamfranco archiepiscopo, in regem consecratus est. Thesauros patris sui,
ut ipse iusserat ecclesiis per
Angliam diuisit ⁊ pauperibus. Vlfum Haroldi quondam
regis filium ⁊ Dunecanum Malcolmi
regis filium a custodia laxatos ⁊ armis
militaribus honoratos abire permisit.
Anno molxxxoviiio fere omnes comites ⁊ proceres Anglie parauerunt regem
prodere sed nichil
profecerunt.
Anno molxxxoixo obiit Lamfranchus
archiepiscopus terremotus exstitit per Angliam permaximus cir
ca horam diei
terciam.
Anno moxco rex
Will’ regem Francorum Ph’ per pecuniam occulte transmissam ab o\b/sidione sui
castri, in
Normanniam abire fecit. Ventus uehemens percussit Lundoniam.
Anno moxcoio reconciliati sunt rex Will’ ⁊ frater suus Rodbertus.
Henricus frater eorum Mon
tem Sancti Michael’ occupauit, ⁊ regis terram uastauit,
quem rex ⁊ comes per totam xlmam ob
sederunt, sed nichil
profecerunt. Rex Will’ occurrit cum excercitu regis Malcolmi iam Norhimbriam
uastanti, in prouintia Loidis, quos comes Rodbertus ea conditione pacificauit, ut rex
Scot’
regi Willelmo obediret, ⁊ rex Will’ regi prefato xii villas, qu\a/s sub patre suo habu
erat, redderet, ⁊ xii1 marcas
auri singulis annis daret. Dissensio permaxima inter Ur
banum papam ⁊ Wibertum antipapam predictictum.
Anno moxcoiio antistes Remigius transtulit
sedem Dorcacestrie ad Lincolum. Rex
Will’ ueniens ad Carel instaurauit
illam.
Anno moxcoiiio rex Willelmus dedit archiepiscopatum Cant’ Anselmo abbati
Beccensi, ⁊
episcopatum Lincol’ cancellario suo Rodberto Bloeth. Ecclesia noua
Dunelm’ incepta est
iiio idus Augusti. Episcopo
Willelmo ⁊ Malcolm’ rege Scot’ ⁊ Turgoto priore ponentibus primos
in fundamento
lapides. Rex Scot’ Malcolmus cum filio suo primogenito Edwardo3
a Norhimbris occisus est. Margareta regina Scot’ obiit. Douenaldus regnum Scocie4 inuastit*
Anno moxcoiiiio Scotti regem Dunecanum peremerunt. Se male uiuendo plebs premit
Anno moxcovo Wlfstanus uenerabilis Wigornensis episcopus obiit. Walterus Albanensis
episcopus
legatus Romane ecclesie ab Urbano papa missus pallium Cantuarie attulit.
Rodbertus
entered the monastery of Romsey, and received the habit of a nun.
In the 1087th year the relics of St Nicholas were moved from Myra to
Bari. Aldwin, prior of Durham, departed. King William went into France with an army and
set fire to a town that is called Mantes, and all churches situated in that place, and
two recluses; and then he went back to Normandy. But on his return, an ominous pain
attacked him, and was increasing more and more from day to day. When, therefore, with
his illness worsening, he perceived that the day of his death was near, he released his
brother Odo, bishop of Bayeux, and Earl Morcar, and Roger, and Siward nicknamed Barn,
and Wlfnot, full brother of King Harold who had been in confinement from boyhood, and
all those who he had held in confinement, whether in England or in Normandy. Then he
made over the kingdom of England to William; and to his first-born, Robert, who was at
that time in exile in France, he granted the county of Normandy. And so, safe in the
heavenly journey, after he had ruled over the English nation for 20 years, 11 months, he
lost, with his life, the kingdom, on 9 September; and he was buried at Caen in the
church of St Stephen, which he himself had built from its foundations, and which he had
enriched with gifts. William his son, therefore, went to England hastily, taking with
him Morcar and Wulfnoth, but soon after, as he came to Winchester, he held them in
confinement as they had been previously. After this, on Sunday 26 September, he was
consecrated king in Westminster by Archbishop Lanfranc. He apportioned his father’s
treasure, as he himself had commanded, to churches throughout England and to the poor.
He released Ulf, son of the former king, Harold, and Donnchad, son of King Máel Coluim,
from confinement, honoured them with knightly arms, and allowed them to
depart.
In the 1088th year nearly all the earls
and leaders of England had made ready to betray the king, but they accomplished
nothing.
In the 1089th year Archbishop Lanfranc died.
An exceptionally great earthquake was evident throughout England at about the third
hour.
In the 1090th year King William, by secretly
handing over money, got Philip, king of the French, to leave off from the siege of his
castle in Normandy. A violent gale hit London.
In the 1091st year King William and his brother Robert were reconciled.
Henry, their brother, occupied Mont Saint-Michel, and ravaged the king’s land. The king
and earl besieged him for the whole of Lent, but accomplished nothing. King William came
to meet the army of King Máel Coluim, a little while ago ravaging Northumbria, in the
province of Lothian, and Earl Robert made peace with them with this condition: that the
king of Scots would obey King William, and King William would give back to the aforesaid
king the 12 estates which he had had from his father, and that he would give him 12
marks of silver each year. An exceedingly great conflict between Pope Urban and the
aforesaid antipope Guibert.
In the 1092nd year Bishop
Remigius transferred the see of Dorchester to Lincoln. King William, coming to Carlisle,
restored it.
In the 1093rd year King William gave the
archiepiscopacy of Canterbury to Anselm, abbot of Bec, and the bishopric of Lincoln to
his chancellor, Robert Bloet. The new church of Durham was begun on 11 August, the first
stones having been placed in the foundations by Bishop William and by Máel Coluim, king
of Scots, and by Turgot the prior. Máel Coluim, king of Scots, was slain with his
first-born son, Eadweard, by the Northumbrians. Margaret, queen of Scots, died.
Domnall seized the kingdom of Scotland,*
In the 1094th year the Scots slew King Donnchad.
The whole people crushed him because he lived badly. After
In the 1095th year Wulfstan, the venerable
bishop of Worcester, died. Walter, bishop of Albano, legate of the Roman Church, sent by
Pope Urban, brought a pall to Canterbury. Robert