conuertentur ad uesperam ⁊ cetera. Quod cum regi Francorum innotuit
Sciens Iudeos licet locorum interuallis longe lateque
per ⊗
mundi climata dispersos vno tamen eodemque infidelitatis federe connexos ⁊ inuicem in
quibus
possunt ⊗ necessitatibus subuenientes subtili fretus astucia per omnes
Galliarum prouincias simul ut omnes
Iudei carceribus manciparentur edixit. Quod
cum factum est usque adeo eos in omnibus apporiauit, vt nec sibi
ipsis possent
subuenire. Necnon ⁊ militibus suis terras suas ⁊ kartas quas Iudeis inpignorauerant
absque fenore restituit, ⁊ diuites dimisit inanes. Eodem autem anno conuocatis
Parisius
archiepiscopis ⁊ episcopis ceterisque praelatis totius ecclesie
Gallicane cum omni uniuersitate magistrorum ci
uitatis maximum ibidem celebratum
est concilium, precipue contra supersticiosos ⁊ hereticos
qui ⁊
domos uiduarum penetrauerant, ⁊ maximam innocentum multitudinem sacram
scripturam sinistra
interpretacione docendo latenter seduxerant, quorum errores
plus expedit reticendo dolere, quam
recitando docere. Qui in eodem concilio de
heretica prauitate conuicti sunt, ⁊ de nefanda secta
magistri Amauri, cuius ossa
ibidem audientibus omnibus ⁊ uidentibus ut ceteri metum habeant
ab omnibus
archiepiscopis ⁊ episcopis excommunicata extra sacrum cimiterium proici iubentur; ⁊
ipsi heretici
xv diebus ante natale Domini in campis iuxta capellam Sancti
Honorati coram omni populo sunt degradati,
⁊ laicorum custodie mancipati, qui ⁊
post triduum precepto domini regis igne consumpti sunt, qui tanta perti
nacitate
obduruerunt quod nec sonitum nec tinnitum in flammis emiserunt. Quos laici Papelardos
appella
uerunt. Magister autem Robertus de Curcun uir uite uenerabilis ⁊ in omni
doctrina perspicuus, cui a domino papa,
cum ceteris dignitatibus suis data est
cura summa predicacionis in Galliis, predictos pseudo prophetas a princi
pio omni
studio persecutus est, eosque Almaricanos a predicto Almarico denominauit, uel Godinos a
Godino,
heresiarcha eorum qui etiam pa▬
1 pena
punitus interiit. Plures autem errore eorum decepti, sed compuncti perpetuo
carceri sunt mancipati, prius tamen degradati, a sacris scilicet ordinibus, ⁊ ita factum
est quod in illo anno maxima excitit
tam Iudeorum quam hereticorum persecutio.
¶Laodouicus filius Philippi regis Francie miles a patre /\ factus
est cum
ingenti gloria ⁊ exultatione apud Sanctum Licium die Sancti Iohannis
Babtiste.
Anno moccoxio in die Sancte Marie Magdalene Iohannes archidiaconus Laodonensis electus est
in episcopum de Dunkelden.
Obiit Willelmus decanus de Cuningham. ¶Uigilia
Sanctorum Petri ⁊ Pauli Willelmus de Bois factus est cancelarius domini re
gis
Scocie;. Rex Anglie firmatis castellis in Wales eam sibi subiugauit;. Obiit domnus
Warinus abbas Rieuall’,
cui successit dompnus Helias cellerarius eiusdem domus;
Tres abbates scilicet de Fontibus ⁊ de Furnes, ⁊ de Cald\e/ia,
benedicti sunt a domino R’ Dunensi episcopo apud Melros, ipso die Sancte Lucie,
sed ⁊ alii duo abbates eodem anno ibidem
ab eodem benedictionis sue munus
acceperunt;. Eodem autem anno facta est vniuersaliter in omni regione strages
hominum innumerabilis, incipiens ab oriente nec desinens usque in occidentem. Factum est
enim quod cum
Otho uir inter omnes coeuos suos prosapia preclarus, in omni acie
miles statura eminentissimus, in omni
exercitu milicia propugnator probatissimus,
a domino papa in imperatorem promotus, inunctus, ⁊ coronatus, in
numeras orientalis
plage sibi subiugasset prouincias cede tamen prius in estimabili peracta nec adhuc
humano
‘they shall return in the evening’,1 etc. This then became known to the king of the French. Knowing that the Jews were able to come to the aid of
each other ⊗in their troubles—for although dispersed throughout ⊗the four corners of the world,
their locations scattered far apart and far away, they were yet bound together as one
and the same in a compact of infidelity—he, relying on an ingenious trick, decreed that all
Jews be consigned to prisons throughout the provinces of France at the same time. When this
was done, he impoverished them in every way so that they were not able to come to aid
themselves. And furthermore, he restored to his knights, free of interest, the lands and
charters which they had pledged to Jews, ‘and the rich he sent away empty’.2 In that same year the archbishops, bishops and the rest of the
prelates of the entire French church assembled at Paris, with the entire body of masters
of the city, and celebrated there a great council, chiefly against the superstitious and heretics who
had made their way into widows’ houses and secretly led astray a multitude of the most
innocent people by teaching holy scripture with a slanted meaning: concerning these it
is more expedient to deplore errors while remaining silent than to teach them by reciting them. It was in this same council that some were convicted of heretical perversity and
of belonging to the abominable sect of Master Amalrich, whose bones—in the hearing and
seeing of everyone there, so that the rest should feel dread—were excommunicated by
all the bishops and archbishops and ordered to be thrown outside the holy cemetery. And
the heretics, 15 days before Christmas, were degraded in the fields beside the chapel
of St Honoratus in front of all the people, and consigned to the custody of lay authority;
and three days later, at the command of the lord king, they were destroyed by fire. And
they held firm with such obstinacy that they let out neither sound nor shriek in the
flames. The laity called them Papelards. Moreover, Master Robert of Curzon, a
man of reverent life and a lucid exponent of every doctrine—to whom the lord pope had,
on top of his other responsibilities, given supreme charge of preaching in
France—hounded the aforementioned false prophets from the beginning with every effort,
and dubbed them Amalricians from the aforementioned Amalrich, or Godians, from Godin
their heresiarch, who also perished while being punished [by torture]. Also, many of
those who had been deceived by their error, but who repented, were placed in perpetual
confinement after first being degraded—that is, from holy orders. And so it happened,
that in that year there arose a great persecution of the Jews as well as of heretics.
¶Louis, son of Philip king of France, was made a knight by /\ father at St Liz with prodigious glory and exultation on the
day of St John the Baptist.3
In the 1211th year on the feast of St Mary Magdalene4 John, archdeacon of Lothian, was elected to the bishopric of Dunkeld.
William, dean of Cunningham, died. ¶On the eve of SS. Peter and Paul5 William de Bois became chancellor of the lord king of Scotland. The king
of England fortified castles in Wales, and subjugated it to himself. Dom Warin, abbot of
Rievaulx, died; Dom Elias, the cellarer of the same house, succeeded him. Three
abbots—namely those of Fountains, Furness and Calder—were blessed by the lord R[anulf],
bishop of Down, at Melrose on the day of St Lucy,6 and
two other abbots received the favour of benediction from him in this same year. In this
same year also there was incalculable slaughter of men universally in every region,
beginning from the east right and continuing and not ceasing all the way into the west. For
happened that, when Otto had subjugated innumerable provinces of the eastern
lands to himself—Otto, a man of outstanding lineage among all his contemporaries, a knight of
most conspicuous stature in every line of battle, a most worthy champion in every armed
force; promoted as emperor, anointed and crowned by the pope—nevertheless, before he had
completed countless killing, and still not satiated with human