De subjectione Pogesanorum, et strage maxima eorundem, et de pace.
Return to the Christians
The land is restored to Christian control.
It was handed back to the Christians.
Vengeance in Pogesania
The master and brothers gather their army to avenge the slain, devastating Pogesania with plunder and fire.
Disturbed by this lamentable event, the master and brothers gathered the full strength of their army to avenge the wrong done to the slain. Entering the land of Pogesania, they laid waste from one end to the other with plunder and fire, killing men and women and leading away the little ones they had captured.
Fall of Helsbergk and Peace
The castle of Helsbergk is captured and its inhabitants killed, leading to peace in Prussia.
In addition, they stormed the castle of Helsbergk, which was then in the hands of the Pogesanians. After capturing and killing everyone, the land of Prussia rested in peace from that time on.
Read the original Latin
reddita Cristianis. Perturbati ergo magister et fratres de hujusmodi lamentabili eventu, ad uiciscendam injuriam interfectorum, congregaverunt omnem potenciam exercitus sui, et intrantes terram Pogesanie, a fine usque ad finem rapina et incendio vastantes, interfecerunt viros, et mulieres, et parvulos captos deduxerunt. In super et castrum Helsbergk, quod tune fuit in manu Pogesanorum, expugnaverunt, captis omnibus et occisis et extunc terra Prussie quievit in pace.
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