De adventu peregrinorum, et intenso frigore.
Pilgrims Arrive and Winter Devastates
In 1323, Bohemian and Rhenish nobles arrive in Prussia, but an unprecedented frost destroys orchards across Livonia and Prussia and halts the crusading army's advance before it reaches Lithuania.
In the year of our Lord 1323, the lord of Cinnenbergkk and the lord of Egerbergk, together with many nobles from Bohemia and Reno, were in the land of Prussia. That winter there was an intense frost, so severe that nearly all the fruit-bearing trees in Livonia and Prussia either withered entirely or couldn't recover their former strength for many years. So although a great army gathered by the brothers had come nearly to the midpoint of the road between Lithuania and Prussia, it couldn't advance further, because the common people would have perished from the excessive cold.
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Anno domini mcccxxiii dominus de Cinnenbergkk et dominus de Egerbergk cum multis nobilibus de Bohemia et Reno fuerunt in terra Prussie. In hac hyeme intensissimum fuit gelu, sic quod quasi omnes arbores fructifere in partibus Lyvonie et Prussie, aut omnino aruerunt, vel infra multos annos vires pristinas resumere non valebant. Unde licet exercitus magnus a fratribus congregatus venisset fere ad medium vie inter Lethowiam et Prussiam, tarnen ultra procedere non valebat, quia pre nimio frigore communis populus periisset.
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