De destructione castri Kymel.
A Failed Assault and a Providential Victory
After a botched attack on one castle, God redirects the Teutonic brothers to the stronghold of Kymel, which they at last destroy by fire.
Not long after, Brother Ludwig of Libencele went with certain brothers and two hundred men to attack a certain castle, but the greater part of the army, wandering off the road, passed it by; and while on the return they were heading back to the direct road, they entered the castle, lest they find no one inside — because the people who lived there, seeing the brothers' army, had withdrawn to the forests, neither able nor willing to endure their attacks. The castle therefore having been burned, the brothers, thrown into confusion, withdrew. But God, not willing to let their labors be entirely frustrated — rather, to satisfy their fervent desire — ordained that not far away they would see a strong castle called Kymel, for the destruction of which the brothers had often repeated their expenses and labors, through themselves and through their men, though they had not succeeded. This they entered manfully; having killed the inhabitants and set fire to it, they burned it to the ground.
Read the original Latin
Non longe post frater Lodewicus de Libencele cum quibusdam fratribus et cc viris ivit ad impugnandum quoddam castrum, sed clux exercitus errans in via pertransiit, et dum in reditu ad rectam viam rediret, intrantes ipsum, ne minem in eo invenerunt, quia populi, qui in eo habitabant, videntes fratrum exercitum, secesserunt ad silvas, non valentes nec volentes ipsorum impugnaciones sustinere. Combusto igitur" Castro, fratres turbati recesserunt. Sed deus nolens omnino frustrari labores eorum, imo ferventi ipsorum desiderio complacere, ordinavit, quod non longe viderent castrum firraum dictum Kymel, pro cujus destructione fratres et sumptus et labores per se et per suos sepius iterabant, licet non proficerent. Quod intrantes viriliter, occisis habitatoribus, ip sum apposito igne funditus cremaverunt.
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