De suburbiorum destructione castrorum Junigede et Piste.
The Marshal's First Burning
In 1313 Brother Heinrich the marshal came with a great army and burned the grain-filled suburbs of Junigeda and Pista.
In the year of our Lord 1313, in autumn, Brother Heinrich the marshal came with a great army to the castles of Junigeda and Pista, and he burned to the ground the suburbs of both, which at that time were overflowing with the newly harvested grain. On the burning of the suburb of the castle of Junigeda.
The Failed Siege and Secret Raid
In 1319 the marshal returned by ship to attack Junigeda and Pista, but when the siege plan failed, he secretly sent five hundred men who overthrew only the suburb of Junigeda.
In the year of our Lord 1319, after the feast of Easter, the same marshal, coming by ship with many brothers, fighters, and warriors in April, wanted to attack the castles of Junigeda and Pista. But since the plan he had drawn up — which was necessary for an assault of this kind — was not carried out in the proper manner, he grew angry. Leaving Pista aside, five hundred men approached the castle of Junigeda in secret, and finding it fortified, they overthrew only its suburb.
Read the original Latin
Anno domini mcccxyiii in autumno frater Henricus marscalcus cum magno exercitu venit ad castra Junigedam et Pistam, et utriusque suburbia, que tune frumento de novo introducto superhabundabant, funditus concremavit. De exustione suburbii castri Junigede. 336 (329) Anno domini mcccxix post festum pasce idem marscalcus cum multis fra April H'ibus et pugnatoribus navigio veniens, voluit castra Junigedam et Pistam ex pugnare. Sed cum ordinacio ab ipso stqjuta, que ad hujusmodi impugnacionem fuit necessaria, debito modo non servaretur, indignatus, omisso Castro Pista, quingenti viri occulte accesserunt ad castrum Junigedam et invenientes ipsum premunitum, solum ejus suburbium subverterunt.
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