rex Scottorum dedit filiam suam
Ysembel, que fuit uxor Roberti de Brus, Roberto de Ros, apud Ha
ditun. Va– Obiit
Baldewinus Cantuarie archiepiscopus nostri ordinis in
terra promissionis, ⁊ Rannulfus de
Glanuile Obiit Robertus comes Leicestrie prope
Brundusum, ⁊ rex Anglie dedit Roberto de Bretoil filio
suo comitatum L\e/icestre,1 ⁊ ceteras terras patris sui, ⁊ fecit eum inde comitem
apud Messanam ciuitatem
in Sicilia. –cat.2
¶iiii nonas3 Aprilis obiit Clemens iiii papa. Cui successit in sequenti die
Celesti
nus iiius qui ⁊ Iacinctus cardinalis. ¶iii kal’
Aprilis ascendit rex Francie naues suas transfretans
in terram Ierusalem, ⁊ rex
Anglie, ⁊ comes Flandrensis conduxerunt eum cum magna gloria in galeis
suis. iiii
idus Aprilis ascendit rex Anglie naues suas cum exercitu suo, cum cl nauibus terre sue ⁊
vi4 ⁊
buccis xxv ⁊ duxit secum sororem suam Iohannam, ⁊ puellam de Nauare desponsandam.
¶
Rex Anglie constituit Arturum ducem Britannie heredem suum tam de Anglie quam
deceteris terris suis
si ipse sine prole decesserit, ⁊ hoc sacramento episcoporum
⁊ comitum ⁊ baronum suorum fecit confirmari. ¶
Eclipsis solis fuit in vigilia Sancti
Iohannis Babtiste, ix kal’ Iulii, die dominica hora vi.
Anno mocoxcoiio obiit Ricardus
abbas de Gedewurðe, cui successit Radulfus eiusdem ecclesia
canonicus, iiii kal’
Iunii. Obiit pie memorie dompnus Euera\r/dus5 primus abbas de Holmcultram, cui
successit Gregorius subcellarius eius. Obiit Philppus comes Flandrie in
terram Ierusalem. Post cuius
mortem Phi’ rex Gallorum sine dilatione
propter cupiditatem, de terra promissionis in Franciam reuer
sus est, ⁊ terras,
uillas opida ⁊ castella regis Anglie in Normannia dum esset in custodia imperatoris
contra pacem, ⁊ pactum, ⁊ iustitiam ⁊ iuramentum quod iurauit, inique inuasit,
cepit, ⁊ crudeliter destruxit,
quasi paganus non Christianus.
Anno mocoxcoiiio Will’ rex Scottorum dedit
filiam suam Margaretam Eustatio de Vesci apud Ro
kesb’, quam genuit de filia Adam de
Hythusum. W’ rex dedit duo milia marcas argenti ad
redemptionem R’ regis Anglie de Rokesburh misit. ¶Iocelinus6 episcopus Glasc’ dedit Deo ⁊ Sancte Marie
⁊ monachis de Melros, ecclesiam Sancti Kentegerni episcopi de Hastanedene in
perpetuam elemosinam pro sa
lute anime sue ⁊ antecessorum ⁊ successorum suorum coram
multis testibus sicut eius carta testatur. Cuius beate anima
semper sit in eterna
gloria ⁊ felici memoria. ¶Dunecanus filius Gileberti de Galweia dedit Deo ⁊ Sancte Marie
⁊
monachis de Melros quandam partem terre sue in Karic que dicitur Maibothel, in
perpetuam elemosinam pro salute
anime sue ⁊ omnium parentum suorum coram episcopo
Iocelino, ⁊ aliis multis testibus sicut eius carta testatur. ¶R’7
regi Anglie, cum reuerteretur de terra promissionis mense
Nouembri post regem Francie mult\i/8 curiose insidia
bantur per loca diuersa
ut caperetur ⁊ traderetur, tandem nutu diuino ab hominibus Limpaldidicis9
Austrice capitur,
⁊ inuitus quo nollet ducitur, ⁊ in custodia cum merore ponitur,
⁊ postea domino H’ imper\a/tori Alemann’ mittitur, ⁊ ipse in
sua potestate per annum ⁊ eo amplius eum reuerenter seruauit donec obsides ⁊
redemptionem redderet. O qualis
⁊ quam miserabilis false dignitatis improuisa
subitaque immutatio! O uariabilis ⁊ instabilis labencium rerum ⁊
dignitatum
infirma debilisque proteccio uel dilectio! O lamentabilis ⁊ flebilis secularis
potestatis, ⁊ proprie uoluntatis
ceca ⁊ feda ambitio uel elatio! Nunc rex, nunc
captiuus, nunc potens, nunc infirmus, nunc diues, nunc pauper, nunc liber,
nunc
captiuus famulus. Erudimini qui iudicatis terram. Venite ⁊ considerate
opera Domini, regem miserum,
superbum humiliatum, diuitem pauperem. Vbi est
gloriatio ⁊ exaltatio tua uana ⁊ inanis humana elatio!
Ecce ut fumus ascendit, ⁊
mox euanuit, ⁊ quasi flos feni emarcuit ⁊ defecit.
king of Scots
gave his daughter Isabel, who was the wife of Robert de Brus, to Robert de Ros, at
Haddington. Vo– Baldwin archbishop of Canterbury, one of our order, died in the Promised Land; and Ranulf de
Glanville. Robert earl of Leicester died near Brindisi, and the king of England gave to
Robert de Breteuil his son the earldom of Leicester and the rest of his father’s lands,
and he made him earl thenceforth at the city of Messina in Sicily. –id. ¶On 2
April1 Pope Clement
IV died; Celestine III—who was also Cardinal Giacinto—succeeded him the following day.
¶On 30 March the king of France boarded his ships crossing to the land of Jerusalem, and
the king of England and count of Flanders escorted him with great glory in their
galleys. On 10 April the king of England boarded his ships with his army, with 150 ships
from his own land, and 6 [?]2 and 25 transport vessels; and he took his sister Joanna with him, and
engaged to marry a young woman of Navarre. ¶The king of England appointed Arthur duke of
Brittany as his heir of England as well as the rest of his lands if he himself was to
die without children; and he caused this to be confirmed by the formal oath of his
bishops and earls and barons. ¶There was an eclipse of the sun on the vigil of St John
the Baptist, at the 6th hour on Sunday 23 June.3
In the 1192nd
year Richard abbot of Jedburgh died; Ralph a canon of the same church succeeded him, on
29 May. Dom Everard of pious memory, first abbot of Holme Cultram, died; Gregory his
under-cellarer succeeded him. Philip count of Flanders died in the land of Jerusalem.
After his death Philip king of the Gauls returned to France from the Promised Land
without delay on account of greed, and—against the peace and pact, and justice and the
oath which he swore—he wrongly attacked, seized and cruelly destroyed the lands, vills,
towns and castles of the king of England in Normandy while he was in the emperor’s
custody: as if a pagan not a Christian.
In the 1193rd year W[illiam] king of Scots gave his daughter Margaret to
Eustace de Vesci at Roxburgh, who he begat from the daughter of Adam of
‘Hythus’.4 King William gave sent two
thousand marks of silver from Roxburgh for the ransom of R[ichard] king of England.
¶Jocelin5 bishop of Glasgow, before many witnesses, gave the church of
St Kentigern the bishop, Hassendean, to God and St Mary and the monks of Melrose, as
perpetual alms, for the salvation of his soul and of his ancestors and successors, as
his charter testifies.6
May his blessed soul always be in eternal glory and happy memory. ¶Donnchad son of Gilla
Brigte of Galloway, before Bishop Jocelin and many other witnesses, gave to God and St
Mary and the monks of Melrose a certain part of his land in Carrick which is called
Maybole as perpetual alms for the salvation of his soul and of all his progenitors, as
his charter testifies.7
¶Many9 lay in wait diligently throughout
various places for R[ichard] king of England since he had come back from the Promised
Land in the month of November, after the king of France, so that he might be seized and
handed over. Eventually with divine willingness he is seized by the men of Leopold
[duke] of Austria, and led unwillingly so that it is against his wishes, and he is
placed with sorrow in custody. He is sent afterwards to the lord H[enry], the emperor of
Germany; and in his power for a year and more there, he kept him reverently under guard
as a hostage and as someone who should result in a ransom. Oh what and how sudden and
unexpected a change of wretched deceptive dignity! Oh the mutable and unstable, weak and
frail love and protection of passing possessions and dignities! Oh the lamentable and
tearful, blind and ugly ambition and pride of worldly power and one’s own will! At one
moment a king, at another a prisoner, at one moment powerful, at another weak, at one
moment a rich man, at another a poor man, at one moment a free man, at another a
prisoner servant. You who judge the world, be educated. Come and consider
the works of God: a wretched king, the arrogant lowly, the rich poor. Where is the
boasting and exaltation of your hollow and empty human pride! Behold as smoke rises and
soon vanishes, and like flower of a hay-crop dried up and spent.