Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

Captus ab Edgaro
uita priuatus at
ille Roscolpin
obiit ossaque Io
ua tenet.
Post hunc Edgarus reg
nauit ter tribus annis
Rex Edenburgo fertur
obisse probus.
Ordo Tironensis ce
pit per abbatem Bernardum
aput Uetus Tiro
nem in Nemore
de Mobreia comes, Norhimbrie inTinem’ capitur ⁊ apud Windeshoure custodie mancipa
tur. Vrbanus papa Galliam ueniens iter Ierosalem, predicauit.
Anno moxcovio Christiani iter uersus Ierolosolimam inierunt. Rex Will’ vim dc lx vi li
bras fratri suo Rodberto prestitit, ⁊ ab eo Normanniam in uadimonium accepit. Vrbanus papa iter
Ierosolimis predicauit. Will’ Dunelmensis episcopus obiit.
Anno moxcoviio rex Will’ clitonem Edgarum in Scot’, cum excercitu misit, ut expulso
Dunenaldo Edgarum filium Malcolmi regis, regem constitueret, quod ⁊ fecit. Christiani Niceam
ciuitatem ceperunt xiiiio kal’ Iunii.
Anno moxcviiio facta est abbatia Sancte Marie Cistercii. \⁊ Robertus primus abbas/ ¶Antiocha a Christianis \iiio non’ Iunii,/ cap
ta est,
\iii non’ Iunii,/ ⁊ cometa apparuit. Obiit Walchelinus episcopus. \Vuintoniensis, cui successit Will’ Giffard,/ Rex Noreganorum Magnus filius regis
Olaui filii regis Haroldi Harfauh, \Orcadas/ ⁊ Meuanias insulas suo adiecit regno. Eodem
anno kal’ Augusti obiit Adimarus Podiensis episcopus. Vrbanus papa concilium tenuit, apud Barum,
comitante secum Anselmo archiepiscopo Cantuar’. Christiani ceperunt in Siria duas urbes, Bar
ram scilicet ⁊ Marram, ubi tantam famen passi sunt ut de cadaueribus Saracenorum comederent.

Anno moxcoixo Vrbanus papa iii ebdomada pasche magnum concilium Rome tenuit. Ierusalem
capta est a Christianis idus Iulii feria vi ⁊ Godefridus Lothtarensis regnum suscepit.1 Urba
nus papa obiit, Paschal’ in papam in sequenti die est consecratus. Tercio non’ Nouembris, mare litus
egreditur, ⁊ uillas ⁊ homines quamplures boues ⁊ oues innumeras demersit. Dicitur quod cum rogaretur Deus
ut per ignis missionem in uigilia pasce ostenderet quem sibi regem preficerent, ⁊ uenisset super lanceam Roberti Curthose respuit illud
Anno moco Wibertus antipapa obiit. Rex Will’ in Noua Foresta a Waltero Tirello sa
gitta occiditur. Rex Henr’ a Mauricio Lund’ episcopo in regem consecratur. Rex Henr’ Ansel
mum archiepiscopum reuocauit. Rannulfum Dun’ episcopum in custodia Lund’ posuit. Rodber
tus comes Norm’ ⁊ Rodbertus Flandrensis ⁊ Eustacius Bononiensis repatriauerunt.
Rex Henricus Matildem reginam filiam Malcolmi regis Scottorum ⁊ sancte Margarete regine, sororem
etiam regum Edgari, Alexandri, ⁊ Dauid, desponsauit, quam Anselmus archiepiscopus consecra
uit, ⁊ coronauit. Obiit Thomas archiepiscopus Ebor’, cui successit Girardus. Boimundus iam dominus Antiochie
ante urbem Meletinam a Turcis3 captus est ⁊ abductus. Dominus vero Meletinie ipsam urbem Baldew’ reddidit fratri regis Godfridi. Eodem anno ipse Godefr’ obiit, ⁊ Bal
Anno mocoio Rann’ episcopus de custodia euasit. Rex Franc’, Ludouicus, interfuit curie
Henrici regis Lundoniis, in natali Domini. Pax facta est inter regem Henricum, ⁊ comitem Rodbertum,
ut rex iiim marcas argenti persolum, ⁊5 comiti singulis annis. Rex Ierosolimorum, Baldewi
nus Cesaream Palestinam cepit.
Anno mocoiio rex Henr’ Rodbertum de Belesmo ⁊ Arnoldum fratrem eius de Anglia expu
lit, ⁊ Mariam sororem regine Matildis Eustachio Bonon’ comiti nuptum tradidit.

Anno mocoiiio Anselmus archiepiscopus iniurias multas a rege sustinens, Romam tendit.
Rodbertus comes Angliam ueniens iiim maircas regi pardonauit.
Anno mocoiiiio corpus Sancti Cuthberti ostensum est ⁊ incorruptum inuentum ⁊ flexibile //
⁊ translatum est apud Dunelmum in nouam ecclesiam. //post annos depositionis eius cccctosxviii.
Anno mocovo rex Henr’ mare transiuit quem receperunt omnes fere barones Nor
mannie spreto fratre suo cecati multe cupiditate pecunie, ⁊ Baiocas incendit.

Anno mocovio Rodbertus comes uenit in Angliam querens a fratre ut
regnum spe regni Anglorum.2dewinus ei successit4

Notes

1 DB: Altered from succepit.
2 JT: This line of text in the inner margin is more visible in the facsimile edition: Andersons, The Chronicle of Melrose, p. 30.
3 JT: ante urbem Meletinam a Turcis squeezed into the left margin.
4 JT: This line of text in the inner margin is more visible in the facsimile edition: Andersons, The Chronicle of Melrose, p. 30.
5 DB: Read persolueret (as in Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 139 (Historia Regum) f. 117r).
Captured by Eadgar,
deprived of his sight,
he died at Rescobie;
and Iona holds
his bones.
Eadgar reigned after him
for nine years;
it is said the upright
king died at Edinburgh.
The Tironensian order
begun by Abbot
Bernard at Old Tiron
in the Wood
of Mowbray, earl of Northumbria, is taken at Tynemouth and held in confinement at Windsor. Pope Urban, coming to France, preached the journey to Jerusalem.
In the 1096th year Christians undertook the journey towards Jerusalem. King William discharged 6 thousand 666 pounds to his brother Robert, and received Normandy from him as surety. Pope Urban preached the journey to Jerusalem. William, bishop of Durham, died.
In the 1097th year King William sent Eadgar the ætheling to Scotland with an army in order to set up Eadgar, son of King Máel Coluim, as king, once Domnall was expelled; and that was done. The Christians took the city of Nicaea on 20 May.
In the 1098th year the abbey of St Mary’s, Cîteaux, was created \and Robert was the first abbot./ ¶Antioch was captured \on 3 June/ by the Christians, \on 3 June/ and a comet appeared. The death of Walkelin bishop \of Winchester; he was succeeded by William Giffard./ Magnús, king of the Norwegians, son of King Óláfr son of King Haraldr Fair Hair, annexed \the Orkneys/ and the Menevian islands to his kingdom. In the same year, on 1 August, Adhémar bishop of Le Puy died. Pope Urban held a council at Bari, bringing Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, with him. The Christians took two cities in Syria, that is Albara and Ma‘arat en-nu‘man, where they suffered such a famine that they ate the corpses of Saracens.

In the 1099th year Pope Urban held a great council in Rome in the 3rd week of Easter. On Friday, 15 July, Jerusalem was captured by the Christians, and Godfrey of Lorraine received the kingship. Pope Urban died, and Paschal was consecrated the following day.1 On 3 November the sea goes beyond the shore, and very many settlements and men, and innumerable cattle and sheep, sank. It is said that when God was asked that he might show who they should set over themselves as king,2 by sending fire on the vigil of Easter, and it had appeared on the lance of Robert Curthose, he rejected that
In the 1100th year the antipope Guibert died. King William is slain in the New Forest by Walter Tirel, with an arrow. King Henry is consecrated king by Maurice, bishop of London. King Henry recalled Archbishop Anselm. Rannulf, bishop of Durham, is placed in custody. Robert, duke of Normandy, Robert of Flanders and Eustace of Boulogne returned home. King Henry married Queen Matilda, daughter of Máel Coluim, king of Scots, and the holy Queen Margaret, sister also of Kings Eadgar, Alexander, and David, whom Archbishop Anselm consecrated and crowned. Thomas archbishop of York died; Gerard succeeded him. Bohemund, now lord of Antioch, was captured by the Turks before the city of Meletina, and taken away. The Lord, indeed, gave back that city of Meletina to Baldwin, brother of King Godfrey. In the same year Godfrey himself died, and Bal-
In the 1101st year Bishop Rannulf escaped from custody. Louis, king of France, attended the court of King Henry, at Christmas. Peace was made between King Henry and Duke Robert, such that the king would pay 3,000 marks of silver to the duke every year. Baldwin, king of Jerusalem, took Caesarea in Palastine.
In the 1102nd year King Henry expelled Robert of Bellême and his brother Arnold from England; and Mary, sister of Queen Matilda, was given in marriage to Eustace, count of Boulogne.

In the 1103rd year Archbishop Anselm, enduring many affronts from the king, travels to Rome. Duke Robert, coming to England, quitclaimed the 3,000 marks to the king.
In the 1104th year the body of St Cuthberht was viewed, and was found incorrupt and pliant, // and it was translated into the new church at Durham. //after 418 years of internment.
In the 1105th year King Henry crossed by sea; almost all the barons of Normandy, blinded by the greed of much money, received him, after his brother had been spurned, and he burned Bayeux.

In the 1106th year Duke Robert came to England asking from his brother that
kingdom in the hope of the kingdom of England.-dwin succeeded him.

Notes

1 DB: I.e., the day following his election; appears that the passage on Paschal’s election (found, e.g., in Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 139 (Historia Regum) f. 116r) has been lost accidentally.
2 DB: I.e., as king of Jerusalem.