sit dominus Walterus de Kyrcham decanus Eboraci.
Anno Domini moccoxloix obiit dominus Gilbertus episcopus
Brehinensis.
Cui successit dominus Robertus suus archidiaconus. Rex Fran
corum
Lodowicus Cypricam insulam deserens ad illam famosam
Damietam deuenit quam
uiriliter debellans interfectis hostibus cepit
⁊ cum suo exercitu xi kal’ Iulii
introiuit. Obiit dominus Philippus abbas
de Gedewrd. Cui sucessit Robertus de
Gyseburne eiusdem domus canonicus.
Eodem anno inclitus rex Scottorum Alexander dum ad sedandas
Ergadie partes proficiscitur graui infirmitate corripitur, &
ad insulam de
Ceruerei deportatur ubi perceptis ecclesiasticis sacra
mentis eius felix anima ex
hac luce eripitur, ⁊ cum sanctis omnibus ut credimus
in celis collocatur, corpus
uero eius ut ipse ut ipse adhuc uiuus impera
uerat ad Melrosensem
ecclesiam transportatur, ⁊ in ea more regio terre
gremio commendatur. Anno igitur
etatis sue lio ⁊ regni sui xxxv
viii idus Iulii, feria
quinta ex hac luce migrauit, ⁊ regnum suum
Alexandro filio suo puero fere octo
annorum, dereliquit, qui patrio
more iii idus Iulii a magnatibus rex constitutus
in paterno solio
collocatur, ⁊ ut legitimus heres ab omnibus honoratur. Obiit
Ro
bertus abbas de Gedewrd. Cui successit Nicholaus eiusdem domus cano
nicus.
Anno Domini mocclo
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cuncta prospera euenissent exercitui Christianorum
ob
superbiam precipue ut fertur Francorum traditur milicia Christi
anorum paganis qui
uictoria potiti uicto feria sexta in pri
ma ebdomada quadragesime non
sine maxima iactura suorum
the lord Walter of Kirkham, the dean of York, succeeded
him.
In the 1249th year of the Lord, the
lord Gilbert, the bishop of Brechin, died; the lord Robert, his archdeacon, succeeded
him. Louis, king of the French, leaving the island of Cyprus, arrived at the famous
Damietta. He vigorously stormed it, and captured it, having killed the enemy, and
entered with his army on 21 June. The lord Philip, abbot of Jedburgh, died; Robert of
Gisburn, a canon of the same house, succeeded him.
In the same year, Alexander, the
noble king of the Scots, was seized by a grave illness as he set out to stay in Argyll.
He was carried to the isle of Kerrera, where, having received the sacraments of the
Church, his happy soul was taken from this light, and as we believe, he was given a
place with all the saints in heaven. His body, as he himself as he himself
had commanded while he was still alive, was transported to the church of Melrose, and
was there committed to the bosom of the earth in the manner of kings. He departed from
this light, therefore, in the 51st year of his age, and the
35th of his reign, on Thursday 8th July. And he bequeathed his kingdom to Alexander his son, a boy of almost
eight years, who in the manner of his forefathers was set upon his father’s throne by
the magnates as the appointed king on 13th July, and he was
honoured by all as the lawful heir. Robert, abbot of Jedburgh, died; Nicholas, a canon
of the same house, succeeded him.
In the 1250th year of the Lord,
\when/
everything had been going well for the
Christian army; but on account of the arrogance of the French in particular, so it is
said, the Christian knighthood was betrayed to the pagans, who won their victory on the
victor Saturday of the first week of Lent, and cut down the Christians by
a wretched slaughter, but not without great loss