Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

⁊ primates quosdam extinxit. Et ille Colonensis electus, totius scismatis capud in
Alpibus exstinctus est, ⁊ ut ossa a carnibus disiungerentur ⁊ Colonie deferentur totus in aquam
coctus est. Volebant enim primates sui electi licet non episcopi quantum ad ipsos honorabi
les, quantum ad nos satis inhonoreas ⁊ fal\s/i nominis saltim habere reliquias.

Anno mocolxoviiio obiit pie memorie Gilebertus abbas Cisternensis cui successit Alexander
xus abbas. Obiit Wido scismaticus ⁊ secundus antipapa, ⁊ quidam tertius antipapa, cuius nomen
ignoratur, qui ⁊ ignorans ignorabitur, eleuatus est. Obiit Rodbertus comes iustus Lecestrie
⁊ qui iusticia summa uocatur.

Anno mocolxoixo obiit Gregorius episcopus Dunkelde, \cui successit Ricardus capellanus regis/ ¶Vilis ⁊ exescrabilis contra dominum pa
pam Alexand’ ⁊ uenerabilem Thomam archiepiscopum in Galliis exulantem coniuratio per totam
fere Angliam iussione regis facta est. ¶Hunbaudus prior de Weneloc addux
it conuentum apud Passelet qui est iuxta Renfriu.

Anno mocolxxo1 rex Anglie Henricus de Normannia Angliam rediit, in quo reditu
multi naufragio perierunt. ¶Willelmus abbas iii de Maylros curam pastoralem x k’ Maii
humiliter dimisit, ⁊ ipso die Iocelinus prior ei successit. Vill’ rex Scottorum apud
Windlesoure ad H’ regem uenit. Dauid frater eius in octauis pentecostes miles a rege Anglie2 factus est.
¶Henricus rex Anglie fecit coronari filium Henricum puerum ⁊ in regem apud Lund’ xi
kal’ Iunii in die dominica consecrari a Rogero ursurpatore Ebor’ archiepiscopo, qui in alienam
prouinciam ius ⁊ officium alienum contra canones per regiam ⁊ propriam tirannidem
uiuente uenerabili Thoma archiepiscopo Cant’ ⁊ in Galliis exulante sibi usurpauit. In fe
stiuitate apostolorum Petri ⁊ Pau\li/3 subito terremotus ingens ⁊ horridus in oriente ultra
mare Grecie urbes plurimas ⁊ castella cum suis habitatoribus subuersas obruit Tripo
lim, Gibellum, Laodiciam, Antiocham, ⁊ castella quam plurima. Sed ⁊ terra genti
lium eodem terremotu multo miserabilius cum eorum in numerositate periit. ¶Ricardus
cappellanus regis Willelmi consecratus est in episcopum Dulkelde in uigilia Sancti Laurentii a Ri
cardo episcopo Sancti Andree in cathedrali ecclesia Sancti Andree. ¶Obiit venerabilis
Godricus heremita de Finchalach prope Dun’. ¶Ricardus comes de Penbroc filius
Gileberti comitis Stranbohe, filius etiam Isabel matertere Malcolmi ⁊ Willelmi regum Scottorum
⁊ bone spei Dauid comitis, cum multa militum ⁊ proborum hominum copia transfretans uenit
in Hiberniam ⁊ fretus auxilio cuiusdam reguli illius terre, cuius filiam sibi in matrimonio
copulauerat, qu\a/sdam4 ciuitates cum illius terre nobiliore scilicet Duuelin uiriliter oppugnans
per Dei prouidentiam tandem obtinuit. ¶Obiit Owein regulus Wallie. ¶Venerabilis
Thomas Cant’ archiepiscopus a papa Alexandro iam legatus factus circa festum Sancti Andree,
de exilio per regis licentiam rediit in Angliam. ¶Papa Alexander suspendit Ro
gerum Ebor’ archiepiscopum ab omni episcopali officio, ⁊ Hugon’ Dun’ ⁊ Gilbertum Lund’ episcopos
⁊ ceteros omnes qui interfuerunt coronatione non canonice Henrici filii regis.

Anno mocolxxoio O scelus nephandum, O nephas detestandum, O flagitium ex
ecrandum, O cunctis retro seculis inauditum piaculum beate memorie Thomas Cant’
archiepiscopus, sedis apostolice legatus primas totius Anglie, qui iam per sex ⁊ eo amplius

Notes

1 DB: This scribe was writing over some erasures.
2 DB: The tail of an erased g is visible under the initial a of Anglie.
3 DB: Apparently Pauu corrected to Pauli by over-writing.
4 DB: Originally written quosdam.
and killed certain top-ranking men. And the bishop-elect of Cologne, the chief of the whole schism, was killed in the Alps; and he was boiled in water so that the bones would be separated from the flesh and the lot carried to Cologne. For top-ranking men wished at least to have the relics of their bishop-elect, although not a bishop; as much as they were worthy of honour to them, they were equally to us as much without honour, and of false reputation.

In the 1168th year Gilbert of pious memory, abbot of Cîteaux, died; Alexander, 10th abbot, succeeded him. Guido the schismatic, and second antipope, died, and a certain person was raised up as third antipope, whose name is not known, and who, not knowing, is to be unknown. Robert the just, earl of Leicester, died, who is also called the high justiciar.

In the 1169th year Gregoir, bishop of Dunkeld, died; \Richard, the king’s chaplain, succeeded him./ ¶A vile and execrable conspiracy by almost all England, on the king’s orders, was made against the lord pope, Alexander, and the venerable archbishop, Thomas, in exile in France. ¶Humbald, prior of Wenlock, brought a convent to Paisley, which is near Renfrew.

In the 1170th year Henry king of England returned to England from Normandy. Many perished in this return journey in a shipwreck. ¶William, 3rd abbot of Melrose, humbly let go of the pastoral charge, on 22 April, and on that day the prior, Jocelin, succeeded him. William, king of Scots, came to King H[enry] at Windsor. David, his brother, was made a knight by the king of England on Sunday, 31 May. ¶Henry king of England caused his son Henry, a boy, to be crowned as king at London on 22 May, a Sunday. He was consecrated by Roger archbishop of York—a usurper who, by royal tyranny and his own tyranny, with the venerable Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, living in exile in France, seized for himself authority in another’s province and another’s office, against the laws of the Church. Suddenly, on 29 June, a huge and savage earthquake, in the east, beyond the sea of Greece, overwhelmed Tripoli, Jibleh, Latakia, Antioch, and very many castles, and many cities and castles were overthrown along with their occupants; yet the land of the heathens was much more pitifully destroyed, along with an innumerable quantity of them. ¶Richard, King William’s chaplain, was consecrated as bishop of Dunkeld, on 9 August, by Richard bishop of St Andrews in the cathedral church of St Andrew. ¶The venerable Godric, hermit of Finchale near Durham, died. ¶Richard earl of Pembroke, son of Earl Gilbert Strongbow—son also of Isabel, the aunt of Máel Coluim and William, kings of Scots, and of Earl David of good hope—, came to Ireland, crossing the sea with many knights and a multitude of worthy men, relying on the help of a certain subking of that land whose daughter he had joined to himself in marriage; and he, fighting manfully, at length took certain cities, by the providence of God, including the most noble of that land—that is, Dublin. ¶Owain subking of Wales died. ¶The venerable Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, now made legate by Pope Alexander around 30 November, returned from exile to England with the king’s permission. ¶Pope Alexander suspended Roger, archbishop of York, from all episcopal office, and Bishops Hugh and Gilbert of Durham and London, and all the others who took part in the uncanonical coronation of Henry, the king’s son.

In the 1171st year—oh abominable evil, oh execrable crime, oh detestable disgrace, oh sin unheard of in all former ages—Thomas of blessed memory, archbishop of Canterbury, legate of the apostolic see, primate of all England, now striving for six years and more

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