De depredacione territorii Medenicke.
The Night Raid on the Christian Camp
As Brother Henry's army approaches Medenicka, Lethowinian raiders strike the camp at night, killing two men and stealing horses, yet the brothers are not deterred from their mission.
320 (313) On the plundering of the Medenicka territory. In the year of our Lord 1314, the same Brother Henry, marshal, along with brothers and men from Sambia and Nattangia, was approaching the Medenicka territory when, at night, certain Lethowinians entered his tents, killed two men, and led away two horses with them, because of which the Christian army was in turmoil all night long. But this did not frighten the brothers enough to delay in any way the work of the Lord they had begun.
The First Devastation of Medenicka
Fired with zeal for the faith, the brothers press forward and lay waste to the Medenicka territory, killing and capturing seven hundred men and seizing great spoils.
And so, fired with zeal for the faith and trusting valiantly in the Lord, they brought to completion what they had begun, to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ. The next day, therefore, they forcefully entered the said territory and laid waste to everything within a span of three leagues by fire and plunder, killing and capturing seven hundred men, and returned with an enormous amount of spoils.
The Assault on Sisditen Castle
Brother Henry returns to Medenicka in February and besieges the castle of Sisditen, where a fierce battle claims lives on both sides; unable to take the fortress, the brothers again ravage the surrounding territory.
321 (314) To the same place. On 2 February of the same year, around the purification of the blessed virgin, the same Brother Henry the marshal came to the Medenicka territory again with the full strength of his army and attacked the castle there called Sisditen, while the garrison boldly defended itself from the other side; and in this battle, which lasted a long time, on the Lethowinians' side Masini's brother and sixteen others fell killed, but on the brothers' side three brothers — namely Brother Henry the Ruthenian, Brother Ulric of Tetinge, and Brother Rebodo of Ysenburgk — and valiant men in arms, namely Spagerot, Queram of Waldow, Michael, and Mindota. After this, since they were making no progress in the attack on the castle, they advanced into its territory and once again devastated it by fire and plunder.
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! 3ii Anno domini mcccxiiii post circumcisionem ejus idem frater Henricus marscalcus cum fratribus et viris de Sambia et Nattangia, dum veniret circa territo rium Medenickam, quidam Lethowini noctis tempore tentoria ejus intrantes, im viros occiderunt, duos equos secum deducentesb, de quo exercitus Cristianorum per totam noctem fuit inquietatus. Sed hoc fratres non terruit in tantum, ut opus domini inceptum aliqualiter retardaret. Unde quod ad laudem domini nostri Jesu Gristi inceperant, zelo fidei succensi, viriliter confisi in domino perfecerunt. Sequenti igitur® die dictum territorium potenter intraverunt, et quicquid in eo infra tres leucas constitutum fuit, vastaverunt incendio et rapina, et occisis et captis septingentis hominibus cum preda maxima redierunt. 321 (314) Ad idem. 2 Februar Eodem anno circa purificacionem beate virginis idem frater Henricus mar scalcus cum omni potencia exercitus sui venit ad territorium Medenickam iterum, et castrum ibidem dictum Sisditen impugnavit, castrensibus ex adverso viriliter se defendentibus, et in hac pugna, que diu duravit, de parte Lethowinorum germanus Masini et xvm alii ceciderunt interfecti, sed de parte fratrum tres fratres, scilicet frater Henricus Ruthenus, frater Ulricus de Tetinge, et frater Rebodo de Ysenburgk et im viri in armis strenui, scilicet Spagerot, Queram de Waldow, Michael, et Mindota. Hoc facto cum non proficerent in impugnacione castri, profecti sunt ad territorium ejus, et iterura depopulaverunt per incendium et rapinam.
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