De expugnacione duorum castrorum terre Nadrowie in territorio Bethowis.
The Campaign Against Nadrowie
Brother Conradus sends Brother Theodoricus with an army into Nadrowie, where they lay waste to Rethowia and storm two forts, killing and capturing many and seizing great plunder.
Brother Conradus of Tirbergk, the master, recognizing the prudence and faithfulness of those Nadrowians, and seeing that through their withdrawal the land of Nadrowie had been greatly weakened, sent Brother Theodoricus, advocate of the land of Sambia, along with an army to the aforesaid land of Nadrowie. They entered the territory of Rethowia and laid it waste with plundering and fire, and advancing further to two forts of the aforesaid territory, after a long battle had been waged between them, at last relying on divine aid they stormed both, and after many men had been killed and captured, they consumed those forts themselves, along with their outlying settlements, in a conflagration — and so great was the plunder received in horses, cattle, and other goods that they could scarcely carry it off.
The Storming of Otholichie
Brother Theodoricus, by the master's order, besieges and captures the fort of Otholichie, whose garrison, terrified by the brothers' earlier victories, quickly falls; the fort is burned and its people slain or taken captive.
177. Concerning the storming of the fort of Otholichie. Not long afterward, the same Brother Theodoricus the advocate, by order of the master, having taken with him several brothers and 150 knights along with many foot soldiers proceeding by ship, came to the territory of Nadrowie called Catthowd, and after archers had been stationed at the proper positions and ladders had been set against the walls, they moved in to assault the fort of Otholichiam. But because the garrison soldiers had heard that the brothers had previously stormed the other two forts so powerfully, they were in despair and, like men paralyzed by fear, could not resist for long; so after a brief assault, when many in the fort had been mortally wounded and others were giving way, the brothers forced their way in, and after the men had been slain and the women and children captured, they burned the fort to the ground.
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Frater Conradus de Tirbergk magister considerans prudenciam et fidelitatem istorum Nadrowitarum, et quodk per eorum recessum terra Nadrowie multum esset debilitata, misit fratrem Theodoricum advocatum terre Sambiensis * * et exercitum cum eis ad dictam terram Nadrowie 2 *. Qui ingressi territorium Rethowia rapina et incendio vastaverunt, et procedentes ultra ad duo castra dicti territorii post longum bellum inter eos habitum tandem divino freti auxilio utrumque expugnaverunt, et occisis et captis multis hominibus, ipsa cum suis suburbiis ignis incendio consumpserunt, tantaque preda in equis, pecudibus et aliis rebus recepta fuit, quod vix eam deducere potueruntb. 177 di2) De expugnacione castri Otholichie. Non Longe postea idem frater Theodoricus advocatus de mandato magistric, assumptis sibi pluribus fratribus et cl equitibus cum multis peditibus navigio procedentibus, venit ad territorium Nadrowie, dictum Catthowd, et ordinatis sagittariis ad loca debita, applicatisque scalis ad menia, aggressi sunt ad impugnandum castrum Otholichiam. Sed quia castrenses audierant, quod fratres antea tarn potenter alia duo castra expugnaverant, desperati tamquame meticulosi non poterant diu resistere, sed post modicam impugnacionem pluribus de Castro letaliter vulneratis, aliis cedentibus, fratres violenter intraverunt, et oc cisis viris captisque mulieribus et parvulis ipsum fundilus combusserunt.
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