magister Stephanus de Langetun
archiepiscopus Cantuarie consecratus, in Gallias magister Rob’ de Curzun,
sedis
apostolice presbyter ⁊ cardinalis, ⁊ totius Francie legatus ⁊ arbiter constitutus, ut
sancte conuersa
tionis exemplo ⁊ catholice predicacionis ministerio utramque
regionem, illustrarent. Item, omnes Christi
anos publicos usurarios, ⁊ publicas
meretrices, ⁊ ceteros sancte religionis derisores ad ammonitionem
predicti
magistri Ro abstulit rex Francie a ciuitatibus suis uniuersis. Item Alexander filius
Willelmi regis
Scott’ in Angliam profectus Lundonias a rege Anglie militarem
ordinem accepit, anno etatis sue
xoiiiio viiio idus Marcii, ad letare
Ierusalem. Miles itaque honorifice effectus, cum utriusque regni
applausu ⁊
congratulatione ad propria est reuersus. Item, in illis diebus surrexit in Anglia mire
audacitatis homo ⁊ abstinencie, Petrus nomine, qui nescio quo spiritu futura
predicens ipsi
regi Anglie crudelitatem suam aduersus ecclesiam de die in diem
improperabat, ⁊ quia1 in proximo
honorem regni ⁊ nomen regium esset amissurus
coram facie sua clamitabat, quod quidem in
magna parte postmodum euenit ut
sequens annorum series declarabit.
Anno moccoxiiio obiit Reinaldus, episcopus Rosensis, quondam monachus Melrosensis, ipso die
Sancte
Lucie, post cuius obitum electus est magister Andreas de Mureuia, qui
renuens episcopari,
quesita licencia a domino papa tante dignitatis honorem
humiliter resignauit, loco
cuius subrogatur Robertus capellanus domini W’ regis
Scott’.; Dompnus Adam abbas de Melros
electus est ad curam episcopatus Cathensis
no’ Augusti.; Dompnus Ernaldus abbas Cistercii electus est ⁊
consecratus in
archiepiscopum de Narbon. Hic omni studio uerbum uite predicando, fidem Christi
confir
mando, Albigenses persequendo eorum sectam destruxit; cui successit dompnus
Ernaldus
abbas de Fonte Iohannis;. Dompnus Wido abbas Clareuallis diutino rigore
ordinis lassatus
⁊ nimia senectute aggrauatus que ultra tenere non potuit
sigillum eiusdem domus ⁊ pre
lationem Deo ⁊ ordini resignauit, qui paucis
interuenientibus diebus in uenerabili etatis
maturitate ex hac luce migrauit., cui
successit dompnus Conradus2 abbas de
Villiaco;3
Dompnus Adam abbas de Neubotil; suo cessit officio,4 humilitatis gratia, cui successit
dompnus Alanus subprior
de Melros.; ¶Obiit pie memorie magister Willelmus de Montibus cancel
larius ecclesie
Lincolnensis post pascha, cuius corpus anno sequenti reddita Christianitate
per
Angliam in ecclesiam Lincolnensem est translatum, ibidemque cum debita reuerencia est
tumulatum.
Master Stephen, consecrated archbishop of
Canterbury; to France Robert of Curzon, cardinal priest of the apostolic see, appointed
legate and arbiter of all France, so that they should brighten each region by the
example of holy society and the ministry of catholic preaching. Also, on the advice of
the aforesaid Master Robert, the king of France banished from all his cities all
Christian money-lenders, public prostitutes, and all other mockers of holy religion.
Also, Alexander, son of William king of Scots, journeyed to England, and at London
received the order of knighthood from the king of England in the 14th year of his life, on 8 March, at Laetare
Jerusalem.1 And so, having honourably become a knight, he returned to his own
country, with the applause and congratulation of each kingdom. Also, in those days there
arose in England a man of astonishing boldness and abstinence, Peter by name, who,
foretelling the future (by what spirit I do not know), he criticised the king of England
himself from day to day for his cruelty against the Church, and declared in front of his
face that he would in the near future lose the honour of kingship and the title of
kings. This indeed came to pass afterwards, as the subsequent succession of years will
make clear.
In the
1213th year Reynold, bishop of Ross, formerly a monk of
Melrose, died on the day of St Lucy.2 After his death,
Master Andrew of Moray was elected, who—refusing to be bishop—sought permission from the
lord pope, and humbly resigned the honour of so great a dignity. In his place Robert,
chaplain of the lord W[illiam], king of Scots, was proposed as a substitute. Dom Adam,
abbot of Melrose, was elected to the charge of the bishopric of Caithness on 5 August.
Dom Arnold, abbot of Cîteaux, was elected and consecrated as archbishop of Narbonne. He
destroyed the Albigensian sect by preaching the word of life with every effort,
confirming the faith of Christ, and persecuting them. He was succeeded by Dom Arnold,
abbot of St John’s Well. Dom Wido, abbot of Clairvaux, exhausted by the lasting severity
of the Order and made wearier by extreme old age, resigned to God and to the Order the
seal of the same house and prelacy which he was unable to hold further. After the lapse
of a few days, he departed from this light in the fullness of ripe old age. He was
succeeded by Dom Conrad, abbot of Villeurbanne. Dom Adam, abbot of Newbattle, resigned
his office by the grace of humility; Dom Alan, subprior of Melrose, succeeded him.
¶William de Montibus, of pious memory, chancellor of the church of Lincoln, died after
Easter.3 The following year, when Christianity
was restored to England, his body was translated to the church of Lincoln, where it was
interred with due reverence.