De obsidione castri de Balga.
The Fall of Pyopso at Balga
The Prussian captain Pyopso besieges Balga but is struck down by a brother of the Teutonic Order, causing his army to flee in terror.
When word of this reached the ears of the Prussians, Pyopso, a certain Prussian captain of the Warmians, gathered the full strength of his army and besieged the castle called Balga; and because he was the leader of the others, he himself, like a war-commander before the rest in battle, wanted to make a show of himself, and as he approached the castle, he was struck by a weapon from one of the brothers, fell to the ground, and died. When the others saw what had happened, they were terrified, and with their undertaking left unfinished, they withdrew.12
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Quod cum ad aures Pruthenorum deveniret, Pyopso quidam Pruthenus capitaneus Warmiensium, congregata omni potencia exercitus sui, dictum castrum Balgamf obsedit, et quia caput fuit aliorum, ipse velutg dux belli pre aliis in prelio se voluit ostentare, et appropinquans Castro, cujusdam fratris telo percussus, in terram decidens, expiravit, de quo facto alii perterriti infecto negocio recesserunt.
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