Flandrensis
letaliter wlneratus est, cui successit Theodorus. Rannulfus episcopus Dun’ obiit.
\Cui successit Gaufridus regis
cancellarius./
Fundata est
ecclesia de Kelchehou v non’ Maii
Anno mocoxxoixo obiit Will’
Giffard Wintoniensis episcopus ⁊ rex dedit episcopatum nepoti suo
Henrico, fratri
comitis Teodbaldi ⁊ Steph’ ⁊ episcopatus Cestrensis datus est Rogero nepoti Gaufridi, de
Clintun, ⁊ ambo pariter consecrati sunt Cantuarie a Willelmo archiepiscopo.
Anno mocoxxxo Anagus comes Murauensis a Scottis interfectus
est, cum gente sua a Scottis.
Anno mocoxxxoio Henricus rex
adsciuit ad episcopatum Herefordensem Rodbertum priorem de Lanto
nia uirum
episcopatu dignum.
Anno mocoxxxoiio tertio non’ Marcii facta
est abbatia Sancte M’ de Reiualle die Sabbati.
Anno mocoxxxoiiio eclipsis solis facta est iiiio non’ Augusti,
feria iiiita ita ut dies in no
ctem uerteretur,
aliquandiu. Gaufridus regis cancellarius, ecclesie Dunelm’ ⁊ Adulfus ecclesie Carl’
a Turstino archiepiscopo Ebor’ consecrati sunt episcopi. Nigellus Elyens’ episcopus consecratur
Anno mocoxxxoiiiio dedicatio ecclesie Sancti Iacobi in Rokesburch xvo kal’ Mai, feria iiia pas
che. ⁊ combusta est
ecclesia Sancti Pauli Lundon’. Melcolmus capitur ⁊ in arcta
ponitur in turre Rokesburch custodia.
Anno mocoxxxovto
Henricus2 rex Anglie obiit
iiiito non’ Decembris, ⁊ Stephanus comes
nepos eius
suscepit regnum, et postea xi kal’ Ianuarii coronatus est, ⁊3 in die coro
nationis sue ad missam oblita est pax populo
dari, nec habuit pacem fere toto tempore uite sue.
Anno mocoxxxovio facta est abbatia Sancte Marie de Malros, feria iia pasche.
Obiit Will’ Cantuar’ archiepiscopus. Dedicatio ecclesie
Glasc’. Norhimbria ⁊ Cumbria \reddite
sunt4/
regi
Scottorum Dauid, sed statim pacificati sunt rex
Dauid ⁊ rex Steph’ ⁊ Norhimbria reddita regi
Stephano, ⁊ Cumbria regi Dauid
remansit. Translatio Sancti Guthlaci confessoris.
Anno mocoxxxoviio Ludouicus Grossus rex Franc’ obiit, cui successit filius eius Ludouicus.
Tur
stinus archiepiscopus Eboracensis ueniens Rochesburc impetrauit a rege Dauid
interim ne uastaret Norhim
briam; sed non multo post solute \sunt/
inducio quia rex Steph’ nolebat dare Norhim
briam Henrico
filio regis Dauid.
Anno mocoxxxoviiio rex Dauid
miserabiliter uastauit Norhimbriam totam. Rex Stephanus in
capite Ieiunii cum
magno exercitu ueniens Rokesburc, cum ignominia statim rediit.
Obiit Petrus Leo
antipapa. Albericus legatus Hostiensis episcopus uenit Carleil ad regem Dauid. Fuit
bellum in Cuttenemor inter Scottos ⁊ Anglos ad standardum, xi kal’ Septemb’ feria
ii.
Et episcopus Seleberie ⁊ episcopus Lincolnie, ⁊ cancellarius capti sunt a rege Stephano.
Anno mocoxxxoixo consecratus \est/
Teobaldus abbas Beccensis ab Alberico legato in
archi
episcopum Cantuariensem circa epiphaniam Domini. Pax facta est inter duos
reges instan
tia regine, ⁊ Norhimbria data est Henrico filio regis Dauid. Henricus
\comes/
duxit Ade comm\i/tissam5
filiam Willelmi comitis de Warenna, \sororem Willelmi iunioris/
⁊ Rodberti, comitis de Leicestria ⁊ Waleranni, comitis de
Mellent, cuius mater fuit soror Radulfi comitis de Perona regis Francorum
consanguinea. Henr’
Wintoniensis episcopus frater regis Stephani factus est ab
Innocentio papa legatus in Anglia.
Matildis imperatrix uenit in Angliam ut
adquireret terram ad opus filii quem rex Dauid
⁊ multi alii pro legitimo herede
habebant.
Anno mocoxlo rex Steph’ capitur Lincolnie in prelio die purificationis
Sanct Marie
⁊ custodie mancipatur ad festum sancte crucis in Septembri contracto
numeroso excercitu militari
of Flanders,
was fatally wounded; Theodore succeeded him. Rannulf, bishop of Durham, died;
\Geoffrey, the king’s chancellor, succeeded
him./
The church of Kelso was founded on 3 May
In the 1129th year William
Giffard bishop of Winchester died, and the king gave the bishopric to his nephew Henry,
brother of Counts Theobald and Stephen; and the bishopric of Chester was given to Roger,
nephew of Geoffrey de Clinton; and both were consecrated together by William, archbishop
of Canterbury.
In the 1130th year Oengus, mormaer of Moray, was killed by the Scots
with his people by the Scots.
In the 1131st year King Henry
admitted Robert, prior of Llantony, a man worthy of a bishopric, to the bishopric of
Hereford.
In the 1132nd year, on 5 March, the abbey of
St M[ary]’s of Rievaulx, was created on a Sunday.
In the 1133rd year an eclipse of
the sun occurred on 2 August, on Wednesday, so that day turned to night for a while.
Geoffrey, the king’s chancellor, and Æthelwulf were consecrated bishops of the church of
Durham and the church of Carlisle by Thurstan, archbishop of York. Nigel is consecrated bishop of Ely.
In the 1134th year the church of
St James in Roxburgh was dedicated on 17 April, Tuesday of Easter. And the church of St
Paul’s, London, was burned. Máel Coluim is captured and is
placed in close custody in Roxburgh tower.
In the 1135th year Henry, king of
England, died, on 2 December, and Count Stephen, his nephew, received the kingship, and
was afterwards crowned on 22 December; and on the day of his coronation it was forgotten
to give the peace to the people at the mass; and nor did he
have peace for almost the whole period of his life.
In the 1136th year the abbey of
St Mary’s of Melrose was created on the Monday of Easter;
1
William archbishop of Canterbury died. Dedication of
the church of Glasgow. Northumbria and Cumbria
\were restored/
to David, king of Scots;
but immediately King David and King Stephen made peace, and Northumbria was restored to
King Stephen, and Cumbria remained with King David. The
translation of St Guthlac, confessor.
In the 1137th year Louis the Fat,
king of France, died; his son Louis succeeded him. Thurstan, archbishop of York, coming
to Roxburgh procured from King David that he would not ravage Northumbria for a while;
but not long afterwards the truce
\was/
dissolved because King Stephen refused to give
Northumbria to Henry, son of King David.
In the 1138th
year King David pitifully ravaged the whole of Northumbria. At the beginning of the
fast,2 King Stephen, coming
with a great army to Roxburgh, returned immediately in disgrace. Peter Leo, the
antipope, died. The legate Alberic, bishop of Ostia, came to King David at Carlisle.
There was a battle between Scots and English at Cowton Moor, at the Standard, on Monday
22 August. And the bishop of Salisbury and the bishop of Lincoln and the chancellor were
captured by King Stephen.
In the 1139th year
Theobald, abbot of Bec,
\was/
consecrated archbishop of Canterbury by the
legate Alberic, round about the Epiphany of the Lord. Peace was made between the two
kings at the urging of the queen, and Northumbria was given to Henry, the son of King
David.
\Earl/
Henry took countess Ada, daughter of William, earl of Warenne,
\sister of the younger William/
, and of Robert, earl of Leicester, and of Waleran, count of Meulan,
whose mother was the sister of Ralph, count of Péronne, a kinsman of the king of France.
Henry bishop of Winchester, brother of King Stephen, was made legate in England by Pope
Innocent. The empress Matilda came to England to obtain land for the needs of her son
who Kind David and many others considered as the legitimate heir.
In the 1140th year King Stephen is taken in battle at Lincoln on 2
February, and is placed in custody. On 14 September, after a numerous army of knights