De depredacione territorii Medenicke.
The Raid on Medenicka
Brother Henry returns to Königsberg, gathers a great army of Rhineland nobles and pilgrims, lays waste to the territory of Medenicka, suffers fifty brothers killed, and the count from Mons captures many knights before the castle of Medewagamf.
While the same Brother Henry was returning to Königsberg, he found many pilgrims from the regions of the Rhine — namely, noble men from Mons and Nuwennared, Count Arnold from Einer, and many other nobles — with whom, having gathered a great army once again, he came to the territory of Medenicka and laid it waste, after killing and capturing two hundred men. On the brothers' side as well, fifty men fell, killed. In the meantime, while these things were underway, the count from Mons, under the brothers' banner before the castle of Medewagamf, made off with many knights.
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Dum autem idem frater Henricus reversus esset Kunigsbergk, invenit multos peregrinos de partibus Reni, videlicet nobiles viros de Monte et Nuwennared comites, Arnoldum de Einer milites, et multos alios nobiles 4 5 *, cum quibus congregato iterum magno exercitu venit ad territorium Medenickam, et ipsum depopulavit, occisis et captise ducentis hominibus. De parte fratrum eciam quinquaginta viri ceciderunt interfecti. Medio tempore, quo hec agerentur, comes de Monte sub vexillo fratrum ante castrum Medewagamf milites multos fecit.
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