de Anglie ⁊ de transmarinis partibus,
per sue regine instantiam omnino a uinculis liberatus
⁊ regno restitutus ⁊ in
concambium pro Rodberto comite Gloucestrie filio regis Henr’ qui ibi cap
tus est
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬. ⁊ rex Dauid Scottorum ⁊ imperatrix
sine periculo euaserunt. ¶Facta est abbatia Sanct
Marie de Neubotle. Obiit
Turstinus Ebor’ archiepiscopus in extremo redditus monasterio Sancti Iohannis
Euan
geliste del Punfreit.
Anno mocoxloio eclipsis solis facta est xiii kal’: Aprilis. \¶Et natus est rex Melcolmus/
Albericus de Ver occisus Lund’ sedi
tione ciuium. ¶Obiit
Gaufridus Dun’ episcopus. Will’ thesaurarius in archiepiscopum Eborac’ electus est
Anno mocoxloiio Will’
\Cumin1/
cancellarius regis Dauid Scott’ per dationem imperatricis
intrauit in castell[um]2
Dun’ ⁊ vi Sancti Cuthberti possessiones per aliquod tempus obtinuit, ceca
ambitione uolens
fieri episcopus. Quo ecclesiam grauiter opprimente, recesserunt
de loco Rog’ prior ⁊ Rann’ archidiaconus
⁊ ceteri dispersi, ecclesia cessauit a
diuino officio. Eodem anno fundata est abbatia de
Dun
draynan in Galwaya.
Anno mocoxloiiio Will’ de
Sancta Barbara decanus Ebor’ ecclesie electus est in episcopum Dun’
Consecrati
sunt ambo Willelmi ab Henr’ Winton’ episcopo, Romane ecclesie legato, Will’
predictus thesaurarius in archiepiscopum Ebor’ Will’ decanus3 in episcopum Dun’. Obiit papa Inno
centius,
cui successit Celestinus. Ordo Premonstratensis uenit ad
Neus. Natus est Willelmus: rex Scocie.
Anno mocoxloiiiio obiit papa
Celestinus, cui successit Lucius.
Anno mocoxlovo obiit Will’ abbas Rieuall’,
cui successit Mauricius. Obiit papa Lucius, cui
successit Eugenius. Nobilis
ciuitas Edessa in Mesopotamia Syrie, que nunc
Roeisæ uocatur, in nocte natalis
Domini proditione capitur dum populus diuino office[o]4
uacabat archiepiscopo a Saracenis in ecclesia miserabiliter cum uniuerso fere
Christianorum
populo detruncato. In hac ciuitate beatus Thomas apostolus olim ab
India transla
tus requiescit.
Anno mocoxlovio ecclesia Sanct Marie de Malros dedicata est vo k’
Augusti
in die Dominica. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Will’ archiepiscopus grauibus
capitulis in curia Romana a
diochesis sue personis accusatus est. Vnde quia
episcopus Dun’ nolebat \eum/
sacramen
t▬5 purgare precepit eum papa Eugenius cessare.
Anno mocoxloviio rex Francorum
Ludouicus ⁊ multi nobiles ⁊ populus innu
merabilis Ierosolimam profecti sunt, ad
debellandum Saracenos, ubi non solum nichil
profecerunt, uerum etiam plurimam
iacturam populi sui capto a Turcis Will’ nobili
comite de Warenna diuersss7 in
locis8
perpessi sunt. ¶Ordo Premonstratensis uenit ad
Alnewic.
¶Obiit Iohannes Glasc’ episcopus ⁊ Herebertus abbas de Kelhou successit ei,
consecra
tus a papa Eugenio Antisiodoro die Sancti Bartholomei. \\ ¶Henricus Murdac abbas
de Fontibus electus est in
archiepiscopum Ebor’ ⁊ consecratus est a papa Eugenio Treueris do
minica ii aduentus
Domini. Obiit Alexander episcopus Lincolnie. Eodem anno Eugenius papa
magnum
concilium Remis tenuit, ad letare Ierusalem.
Anno mocoxloviiio
\Ricardus primus abbas de Melrose discessit
et/
Walteuus frater Henrici comitis Northimbrorum ⁊ Simonis
comitis
Norhamtun’ factus est abbas de Malros. ¶Conuentus uenit ad Alnewic. Obiit
uenerabilis Rodbertus episcopus Hereford’ /cui successit Girardus\. ¶Ciuitas Olisiponis a Christianis capta est.
Obiit Sanctus Malachias episcopus Hybernie apud Clareuallem ibique
sepultus est.
had been assembled from England and from regions overseas, he was, at
the urging of his queen, entirely freed from his chains and restored to kingship, in
exchange for Robert, earl of Gloucester, King Henry’s son, who was taken there
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬. And David king of Scots and the empress escaped without danger.
¶The abbey of St Mary’s of Newbattle is created. Thurstan archbishop of York died. Near
the end he returned to the monastery of St John the Evangelist at Pontefract.
In
the 1141st year a solar eclipse occurred on 20 March.
\¶And King Máel Coluim was born./
Aubrey de Vere is slain in London in a riot by the citizens.
¶Geoffrey bishop of Durham died. William the treasurer is
elected archbishop of York.
In the 1142nd year William
\Comyn/
, chancellor of David, king of Scots, by the
gift of the empress, entered into Durham Castle, and for some time took hold of the
possessions of St Cuthberht by force, desiring by blind ambition to become bishop. With
him oppressing the church, Roger the prior and Rannulf the archdeacon retired from the
place, and others were scattered, and the church ceased from divine office. In the same year the abbey of Dundrennan was founded in Galloway.
In the 1143rd year William of St
Barbe, dean of the church of York, was elected bishop of Durham. Both Williams were
consecrated by Henry, bishop of Winchester, legate of the Roman Church: William the
aforesaid treasurer as archbishop of York, and William the dean as bishop of Durham.
Pope Innocent died; Celestine succeeded him. The
Premonstratensian Order came to Newhouse. William, king of
Scotland, was born.
In the 1144th year Pope Celestine
died; Lucius succeeded him.
In the 1145th year
William abbot of Rievaulx died; Maurice succeeded him. Pope Lucius died; Eugenius
succeeded him. Edessa, a noble city in Mesopotamia of Syria, which is now called Roeisæ,
is captured by treachery on Christmas night, while the people were free at divine
office; the archbishop with almost all the Christian people having been pitifully
mutilated in the church by the Saracens. In that city rested the blessed apostle Thomas,
transferred long ago from India.
In the 1146th year the
church of St Mary’s of Melrose was dedicated, on Sunday 28 July. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Archbishop William was accused with serious charges in the Roman curia by incumbents
from his diocese. As a result, because the bishop of Durham refused to clear
\him/
on oath, Pope
Eugenius commanded him to be suspended.
In the 1147th year Louis, king of the French, and many nobles, and
innumerable people set out for Jerusalem to conquer the Saracens; where not only did
they accomplish nothing, but in truth they even put up with throwing away very many of
their people in many different places after the noble Earl William de Warenne
was captured by the Turks. ¶The Premonstratensian order
came to Alnwick. ¶John bishop of Glasgow died, and Herbert abbot of Kelso succeeded him,
and was consecrated at Auxerre by Pope Eugenius on 24 August. \\ ¶Henry Murdac abbot of Fountains was elected
archbishop of York and consecrated by Pope Eugenius at Trier on the 2nd Sunday of Advent.1
Alexander bishop of Lincoln died. In the same year Pope Eugenius held a great council at
Rheims at the fourth Sunday in Lent.2
In the
1148th year
\Richard first abbot of Melrose retired, and/
Waldef,
brother of Henry earl of the Northumbrians and Simon earl of Northampton, was made abbot
of Melrose. ¶The convent came to Alnwick. The venerable Robert, bishop of Hereford,
died;
/Gerard succeeded him3
\
. ¶The city of Lisbon was taken by the
Christians.
St Malachy, bishop of Ireland, died at
Clairvaux, and he was buried there.