detractionis ne forte apprehendat eum aliqua ex
ulcionibus merito propter detracti
onem in quibus nonnulli ex emulis eius
temporaliter perire meruerunt, fuit ae1
Simon descendens a uiris bellicosis a quibus ipse non degenerans similis
factus erat illis ut supradictum est uir bellicosus in occubitum ⊗mortis trans
siens
propter iusticiam in bello sicut ipsi causa iusticie occubuerunt in bello,
scilicet pater eius auus eius proauus eius attauus eius abattauus eius.
Explicit opusculum de nobili Simone de Monte Forti editum.
Cessit2 officio abbatizationis sue dominus Iohannes de Edirham abbas de Mel
ros cui successit dominus Robertus de Keldeleht, monachus de Neubotil, qui
prius fuerat abbas de Dunfermelin, & cancellarius Scocie.
Anno Domini moccolxixo Gloriosum principem regem Francie euntem
uersus Terram Sanctam inmensa uiolencia uentorum in mari Grecie ab itinere
ex
tulit incepto ad exteram nacionem quam cum intrasset cognoscens quod regio esset
Bar
Barbarie regem eius sibi subiugauit et metropolitanam eius ciuitatem inclitam
ualde robustam atque populosam obsedit & obsessam cepit. Ista ciuitas Tunis
nomine
cum aliis ciuitatibus illius regionis regi Francie singulis annis magnum
reddit
tributum cuius incole unum Deum Altissimum colunt \non/ trinum in personis \et/
ideo parcebatur
illis ne interficerentur a Francis
quoniam colunt unum Deum sine lege Iudeorum, duo episcopi
sunt in illa regione.
Subiecta itaque regione Barbarie regi Francie cum idem
3rex uersus
propria rediret una cum rege Nauernie mortui sunt ambo in uia cum
quibus obiit
Dauid comes Atholie in illa peregrinacione. Successit Lodowico
in regnum Philippus
filius eius
Obiit Albinus episcopus Brethinensis cui successit frater Willelmus
de Kilconcath
lector fratrum predicatorum de Perth. ¶Piissimus Lodowicus rex cuius
ante mencio
fit fecit illud famosum monasterium ordinis
Cistercii, quod uocatur Regalis Mons
non possessiones more // aliorum monasteriorum illi tribuens sed perpetuas
liberaciones
frumenti uini & omnium aliarum rerum necessariarum in locis
congruentissimis per
procuratores securissimos certis temporibus annuatim
percipiendas ut mona
chi illius loci soli Deo vacent per omnen modum & seculo
per nullum.
Cessit dominus Wẏdo abbas de Neubotil regimini domus sue cui
preficitur dominus Waldeuus monachus de Melros qui fuerat cellerarius eiusdem
domus Obiit Lora comitissa Atholie sepulta apud Melros,
slanderous talk, lest one of the forms of retribution deservedly falls on the slanderer
for his slander by which several of Simon’s rivals at the time merited death. Earl Simon
was indeed descended from warriors and, not degenerating from them, was made in their
likeness (as it has been said above); the warrior passed in battle into ⊗death’s rest,
for the sake of justice, just as they too, in the cause of justice, died in battle; that
is, his father, his grandfather, his great grandfather, his great-great grandfather, and
his great-great-great grandfather.
Here ends the little work written about the noble Simon de Montfort.
John1 of Edrom, the lord abbot of Melrose, resigned his office of abbot; he was
succeeded by the lord Robert of Kenleith, a monk of Newbattle, who had
previously been abbot of Dunfermline, and chancellor of Scotland.
In the 1269th year of the Lord, that glorious
prince, the king of France, as he was sailing towards the Holy Land, was blown off his
intended course, towards a strange country, by the immense fury of the winds upon the
Sea of Greece;2 and
when he had landed there, discovering that it was the region of Barbary, he brought its
king under his control and besieged its chief city, a celebrated and most valiant place
having many inhabitants, and took possession of it. The king of France imposed upon that
city, called Tunis, and upon other cities of that region, the payment of a large annual
tribute. Its inhabitants worship the one God, the Most High—but \not/ three persons—
\and/
therefore they were spared and not killed by the
French, seeing that they worship the one God, apart from the law of the Jews. There are
two bishops in that region. And so, after the region of Barbary had been made subject to
the king of France, while that same king was returning homewards in company with the
king of Navarre,3 both of them died on the way;
and David, earl of Atholl, died with them on that expedition.4 Philip his son succeeded Louis as king.
Albin, bishop of Brechin, died, to whom succeeded friar William of
Kilconquhar, reader of the Friars Preachers of Perth. ¶The most pious King Louis, of
whom mention has already been made, built that famous monastery of the
Cistercian order, called Réalmont, not bestowing possessions to it in the manner // of other monasteries, but continual
supplies of wheat, of wine, and of all other things necessary, to be received in the
most convenient places by the most trustworthy agents at particular times year by year,
in order that the monks of this place might dedicate themselves to God alone by all
means, and to the world by none.
Guy, the lord abbot of Newbattle,
resigned the government of his house, to which was appointed Waldef, a monk of Melrose,
who had been the cellarer of the same house Lora, countess of Atholl, died, and
was buried at Melrose.