Anno Domini moccoxvii consecratus est Ricardus de Marisco in episcopum Dunelmensem.
Eodem
anno, mense Iulio, factum est nauale bellum inter Franciam ⁊ Angliam
nostris
temporibus inauditum. Commorante enim in Lundoniis domino Laodowico cum
magna
militum multitudine, ne aliquod subsidium de Francia eidem adueniret
Anglici
portus omnes occupauerant, ⁊ marina littora districtissime custodiebant.
Franci
uero in manu ualida, ⁊ nauium multitudine copiosa uenientes, uice pri
ma in maris
medio uictoriam adepti optatum litus possederunt. Sed uice uer
sa deo disponente
congregatis undique nautis ⁊ nauibus iterum in medio maris
adinuicem obuiantes,
congressione facta Anglici uictoriam optinuerunt, ⁊ ar
chipiratam Francorum,
Eustachium monachum appellatum, cum aliis innumeris oc
ciderunt, quorum cadauera
piscibus maris sepelienda commiserunt, quorum exequias
marine belue celebrauerunt.
Nobiliores autem recinentes in firma custodia sub
spe pacis ⁊ concordie firmioris
conseruabant. Nomina uero potentum1 qui ibidem cap
ti sunt hec sunt, Robertus de Curtenei,
Willelmus de Baris, Radulfus de Tornellis, Willelmus de Inchri,
Willelmus de
Pessei, Per\v/n2 de Iohanris, Thomas de Cusei, Aelradus de Croizillis, Anselmus
de Ro
moym, Gallonus de Munteni, Neuellunus de Araz, Willelmus de Mariscis, ⁊ alii
multi.
Summa captorum militum sexcies viginti, ⁊ v. Seruientes equitum septies
xx ⁊ vi.
Balestarii, xxxiii. Seruientes peditum octingenti ⁊ xxxiii. Hanc summam
⁊ nomina
potentum scripsit dompnus R’ abbas de Wardonia, dompno Willelmo abbati
Rieuallis.
Fundata est abbat\i/a de Kilinros a domino
Malcolmo comite de Fif,
ad quam abbatiam missus est conuentus vii k’ Marcii, de
Kinlos, cum
dompno Hugone, primo abbate de Kilinros quondam priore de Kinlos.
Ve
nit ergo idem conuentus apud Kilinros xv k’ Aprilis.
Missi sunt in Angliam
archiepiscopus de Suris, ⁊ abbates, Cistercii, ⁊ Clareuallis,
vt pacem inter
Laodowicum, ⁊ Henricum, nouum regem Anglie reformarent.
Dicti autem abbates contra
G’ cardinalem ad sedem apostolicam pro statu ordinis sui
appellauerunt, eo quod
contra priuilegia sibi a sede apostolica concessa, procura
tiones ab ordine
Cisterciensi, per exactionem idem legatus exigebat, ⁊ monachorum
monasteria sub
interdicto ponebat, tam abbates quam conuentus suspende
bat, ⁊ excommunicatos
denunciabat, nec non ⁊ publice ante fores ecclesiarum
eo quod werrantibus
communicauerant, accepto a singulis iuramento standi
iudicio ecclesie, ⁊ mandatis
domini pape ⁊ ipsius super nudam carnem discipli
nari faciebat, ⁊ communes penas
abbatibus ⁊ conuentibus iniungens uix
absolutionis gratiam indulsit. Contra ipsum
ergo ut dictum est tam crudeliter
aduersus ordinem Cisterciensis, se gerentem
appellauerunt, sed ea uice gratiam non
In the 1217th year of the Lord, Richard
Marsh1 was consecrated as bishop of Durham. In the same
year, in the month of July, a naval battle was fought between France and England, and it
was unprecedented in our times.2 For so long as Louis
remained in London with his great host of soldiers, the English blockaded all the
harbours, and rigorously guarded the coasts, lest any support should reach them from
France. But the French arrived in a strong force with a large number of ships, and on
the first engagement at sea gained victory and took the shore they wanted. Yet the next
time, by God’s design, when sailors and ships had been assembled from every quarter and
once again met each other at sea, the English attacked and obtained the victory. They
slew the arch-pirate of the French, Eustace, called ‘the Monk’,3 along with countless others. They committed their dead bodies to be
buried with the fishes of the sea, and the whales celebrated their funeral rites. They
kept the more noble prisoners safe in close custody in the hope of a peace and a
stronger agreement. These are the names of the mighty men who were captured there:
Robert de Courtenay,4 Guillaume des Barres,5 Raoul de la Tournelle,6 William
de Inchri, William de Poissy, Perun de Johanris, Thomas de
Coucy,7 Aelrad de
Croisilles, Anselm de Romoyni, Gallon de Mont Cenis, Nivelon d’Arras,8 William des Mareys, and many others. The total number of
knights captured was 125; esquires, 146; crossbowmen, 33; foot-soldiers, 833. Dom
R[oger], abbot of Wardon, sent this summary and the names of the mighty men in writing
to Dom William, abbot of Rievaulx.
The abbey of Culross was founded by the lord
Máel Coluim, earl of Fife;9 and the
convent was sent to this abbey from Kinloss on 23 February, together with Dom Hugh,
formerly prior of Kinloss, as the first abbot of Culross.10 The same convent therefore arrived at Culross on 18
March.
The archbishop of Tyre11 and the
abbots of Cîteaux and Clairvaux were sent to England so that they might restore peace
between Louis and Henry the new king of England. These abbots appealed against Cardinal
G[ualo] to the Apostolic See for the rights of their order, because this legate was
demanding payments from the Cistercian Order by exaction, contrary to the privileges
granted them by the Apostolic See, and was placing the monasteries of the monks under
interdict, suspending abbots as well as convents and declaring them excommunicated; and
because they had communicated with those who were making war, having taken from each one
an oath to adhere to the judgment of the Church, and to the pope’s mandates, and to his
own, he also had them publicly scourged upon their bare flesh in front of the doors of
their churches; and in enjoining general penalties on abbots and convents, he scarcely
conceded the grace of absolution. They therefore appealed against him (as it has already
been said) for conducting himself so cruelly against the Cistercian Order; but this time
they did not gain favour.