Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

III abbas Rieuall’ Alredus6\\et Ernaldus factus
abbas de Kalcou
secundus
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
t5 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.

Notes

1 DB: The Andersons (The Chronicle of Melrose, p. xxxvii) identify this as probably the text hand (Scribal profile 8).
2 DB: The folio has been trimmed, and the last syllable here has been lost as a result.
3 JT: The hole in the manuscript here has been patched up with a square of parchment on the verso, added before the text was written.
4 DB: The folio has been trimmed, and the last syllable here has partly been lost as a result.
5 DB: Read sacramento. The final syllable has been erased (abbreviation sign for –us is dimly visible), but not replaced.
6 JT: This entry is technically not a ‘signpost’: no abbot of Rievaulx is mentioned in the adjacent text-block. The addition of the name, Ailred, also adds information (cf. II abbas Rieuall’ adjacent to 1145, which is a signpost).
7 DB: Read diuersis.
8 DB: Addition over an erasure. The Andersons (The Chronicle of Melrose, p. xxxvii) did not reckon that this addition includes in locis.
III abbot Rievaulx, Ailred\\And Arnold was made second abbot of Kelso
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.

Notes

1 DB: I.e., 7 December.
2 DB: I.e., 21 March.
3 DB: Robert de Bethune died on 16 April 1148, but he was succeeded by Gilbert Foliot (consecrated on 5 September 1148), not Gerard. Bishop Robert has apparently been confused with Robert of Lorraine, who died 26 June 1095 and was succeeded as bishop of Hereford by Gerard, who was consecrated on 15 June 1096.