De vindicta hujus rebellionis.
The Master's Campaign and the Duke's Humbling
The Teutonic master leads a great army into Pomerania, captures and devastates strongholds by fire, and the once-fierce Duke Mestowinus is brought low, humbling himself to beg for the restoration of peace.
When this was learned, the master and the brothers, having gathered a great army, entered the land of Pomerania around the fortress of Nuwen on the feast day of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Juni burgk, and afterwards in the following autumn, captured the city and fortress of Dersowia and the surrounding territories of each stronghold, and with many men and cattle taken, devastated them by fire. When this was done, Mestowinus, duke of Pomerania, who had earlier raged against the brothers and their subjects like a lion, now softened by this sort of distress, obtained from the master through many prayers and by humbling himself that peace was restored between him and the master and the brothers — the former peace, renewed.✦
Read the original Latin
Quo percepto, magister et fratres collecto magno exercitu intravit in die beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum terram Pomeranie circa castrum Nuwen. Juni burgk et post in autumno sequenti circa civitatem et castrum Dersowiam et utriusque castri territoria circumjacencia captis multis hominibus et pecoribus incendio devastavit. Quo facto Mestowinus dux Pomeranie, qui prius tanquam leo seviit in fratres et eorum subditos, modo ex vexacione hujusmodi mitigatus cum multis precibus humiliando se optinuit a magistro, quod inter eum et magistrum et fratres fuit pax pristina reformata.
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Pet.5.8 — Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
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