De combustione castri Colayne et depredacione'0 territorii Junigede.
The Burning of Colayna and Devastation of Junigede
In February 1291, Brother Bertoldus Bruhave and his forces burned the empty castle of Colayna and then ravaged the territory of Junigede, capturing and killing seven hundred men.
2. In February of the year of our Lord 1291, around the Purification of Blessed Mary, Brother Bertoldus Bruhave, commander from Königsberg, and several other brothers, with fifteen hundred men, crossed to the castle Colayna and, finding it empty, burned it down. Having done this, they advanced into the territory of Junigede and laid it waste with plunder and fire, so that besides other losses, seven hundred men of the infidels were captured and killed.
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2. Febn Anno domini mccxci circa purificacionem beate Marie frater Bertoldus Bruhave commendator de Kunigsbergk et plures fratres cum mille et quingentis viris transeuntes castrum Colaynam, et invenientes ipsum vacuum combusserunt. Quo facto procedentes territorium Junigede rapina et incendio molestabant, ita quod preter alia damna septingenti capti sunt homines infidelium et occisi.
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