De expugnacione castri Cameniswike.8.
The Fall of Cameniswika
The Teutonic master leads a devastating campaign through Nadrowia, besieges and destroys the castle of Cameniswika, slays its defenders, captures women and children, seizes plunder, and burns the fortress to the ground.
Then the master, with a great army, swept through the land of Nadrowia in fire and plunder; and when he had reached the castle of Cameniswika, situated above the river Arse, with the proper arrangements made for the things necessary for the assault — there were two hundred valiant armed men in the aforementioned fortress — at last, after a long and fiercely contested battle between them, the brothers forced their way in, and having killed all the men mentioned above and captured the women and children, along with an inestimable amount of plunder, they burned the castle to the ground.12
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Deinde magister cum magno exercitu pertransiit terram Nadrowie cum in cendio et rapina, et cum pervenisset ad castrum Cameniswikam, situm supra fluvium Arse, ordinatis modo debito, que ad impugnacionem sunt necessaria, predicto erant cc viri in armis strenui, tandem post longum bellum cum magna difficultate habitum inter eos, fratres violenter intraverunt, et occisis viris omnibus supradictis, captis mulieribus et parvulis cum inestimabili preda, ipsum castrum penitus cremaverunt.
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