De edificacione castri Brandenburgk.

The Founding of Brandenburgk

In 1266, the margrave of Brandenburg, unable to achieve further conquest, built and named the castle Brandenburgk in Prussia for perpetual memory.

In the year of our Lord 1266, the Margrave of Brandenburg, as was said before, came to the land of Prussia with a great many warriors, and since he could accomplish nothing else, by the counsel of the master and the brothers he built a castle, Brandenburgk, and from the name of his own margraviate he wished it to be called thus, for perpetual memory.¹²

Read the original Latin

Anno domini mcclxvi marchio Brandenburgensis, ut premissum est, cum multitudine pugnatorum venit ad terram Prussie, et cum aliud agere non posset, de consilio magistri et fratrum edificavit castrum Brandenburgk et a no mine marchionatus sui ad perpetuam memoriam sic voluit appellari.

Notes

1 ↩The second 'cum' (with subjunctive 'posset') is rendered as causal ('since'); a concessive reading ('although') is also possible.
2 ↩'a no mine' treated as scribal spacing of 'a nomine' (ablative of source/origin).

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