De vastacione terre Criwicie et expugnacione civitatis parve Nogardie.
The Sack of Little Nogardia
Brother Henry the Marshal leads the full army into Kriweikia, captures and razes the city of Little Nogardia, devastates the surrounding countryside, and launches a fierce but inconclusive assault on its fortress.
That year, in September, Brother Henry the Marshal came with the full strength of his army to the land of Kriweikia and captured the city called Little Nogardia, tearing it down to its foundations. He ravaged the surrounding countryside in many ways, with plundering and fire. After pitching their tents before the fortress of that city and spending the night there, the following day he and the whole army advanced on the fortress and attacked it fiercely, so that on both sides some were killed and many were mortally wounded.
David's Ambush and the Loss of Supplies
After failing to take the fortress, the brothers retreat to their baggage camp only to discover that the castellan David has killed thirty men and seized all their horses, bread, and provisions.
But since they were making no headway in the attack, they withdrew. When they came to the place where the guards had left the baggage packs, they found thirty men killed by David the castellan of Gartha, along with one thousand five hundred horses, loaves of bread, and whatever food and other supplies had been stored there — all carried off.
Famine on the Return March
Deprived of all provisions, the brothers endure days without bread; some eat horses or grasses, many die of starvation, and the survivors straggle home only at the end of the sixth week.
Distressed, the brothers pressed on to the next station, but they found absolutely nothing there of the bread and other provisions that had been left behind, so they went without bread for many days. Some, as hunger grew severe, ate their own horses; others ate grasses and their roots. Some died of hunger; many, wasted by starvation, perished after the return. The remainder came back around the end of the sixth week from the day they had set out.
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c, Hoc anno in mense Septembri idem frater Henricus marscalcus cum omni virtute exercitus sui venit ad terram Criwicie, et civitatem illam, que parva Nogardia dicitur, cepit, et funditus destruxit; et terram circumjacentem rapina et incendio multipliciter molestavit, fixisque ibi tentoriis ante castrum dicte ci vitatis pernoctans, sequenti die ipse et totus exercitus accesserunt ad castrum, et ipsum fortiter impugnaverunt, sic quod ex utraque parte aliqui occisi et plures fuerunt letaliter vulnerati. Sed cum in hac impugnacione non proficerent, recesserunt, et dum venirent ad locum, ubi custodes ad sarcinas reliquerunt, invenerunt xxx viros per David castellanum deGartha occisos, et mille et quingentos equos, panes, et quicquid de cibo et rebus aliis ibi deposuerant, deductos. Turbati ergo fratres dum venirent ad secundam mansionem, et ibi eciama de pane et aliis relictis nihil penitus invenirent, processerunt et pluribus diebus fuerunt sine pane, quidam fame invalescente comederunt equos suos, alii herbas et radices earum, aliqui mortui fuerunt fame, multi inedia consumpti post reditum defecerunt, reliqui circa finem sexte hebdomade a die, qua exierant, sunt reversi.
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