De morte fratris Friderici Quitz et vastacione territorii Wiloiv.
The Eve of Saint Peter in Chains
On the eve of Saint Peter in Chains, Lithuanians raid Sambia, burning villages in Wilow and killing Brother Frederick Quitz with thirty-six men, leading away captives from a thousand Christians.
On the eve of Saint Peter in Chains, in the year already mentioned, the Lithuanians entered the land of Sambia and, in the territory of Wilow, burned six villages. They killed Brother Frederick, called Quitz—a bold and valiant man in arms—along with thirty-six other men, and led away the women and small children with the rest of the booty. Of a thousand Christians.
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
On the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Lithuanians return in force to the duchy of Dobrin, slaughtering and enslaving six thousand persons of both sexes.
On the day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the same year, the Lithuanians—seeing that everything was going according to their wishes—once again assembled a strong army and came to the duchy of the noble lady, the duchess of Dobrin. There, six thousand persons of both sexes were killed or pitilessly led away into perpetual slavery among their pagan nation.
Slaughter of the Clergy
The raiders kill seven parish priests, two Benedictine brothers, and sixty clerics found in and around the school.
Furthermore, they killed seven parish priests and two brothers of the Order of Saint Benedict, along with sixty clerics—both ordained and unordained—found in the places outside and inside the school.
The Sack of Dobrin
The Lithuanians capture ten parish churches and the chief city of Dobrin, killing two thousand Christians and burning all the villages of the duchy.
Likewise, having captured ten parish churches and the chief city of the aforesaid duchy, called Dobrin, and having killed two thousand Christians in that city, they laid waste to all the villages of the duchy by fire.
Perpetual Servitude and Open Frontiers
The immense spoils carried off mean the duchy may never recover, and its destruction opens an easier path for future infidel incursions into neighboring Christian lands.
In addition, along with the aforesaid damages, they carried off such vast and varied spoils that the land of the aforesaid duchy will scarcely—if ever—be able to recover from these losses, mournful and truly worthy of lamentable remembrance: Christian faithful condemned to remain in perpetual servitude under paganism. And it is undoubtedly to be feared and lamented that, through the destruction of the aforesaid duchy, an easier path will lie open to the infidels, reaching into the adjacent and neighboring boundaries of the Christians.
A Lament for Two Years of Devastation
The chronicler summarizes that in barely eighteen months, nearly twenty thousand Christians have been killed or enslaved and many cities and forts utterly destroyed.
Behold how great are the evils that have arisen against the Christian faith and the faithful within the space of a year and a half: nearly twenty thousand Christian persons have been killed by the infidels and led away into perpetual servitude, and many cities and forts have been utterly destroyed.
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VIgilia beati Petri ad vincula anno predicto Lethowini intraverunt terram Sambie et in territorio Wilow sex villas combusserunt, et fratrem Fridericum dictum Quitz virum audacem et in armis strenuum et xxxvi viros interficientes, mulieres et parvulos cum preda aJia deduxerunt. milium Cristianorum. die exaltacionis sancte crucis ejusdem anni Lethowini videntes, quod omnia succederent eis ad Votum, congregato iterum exercitu valido venerunt ad ducatum nobilis matrone ducisse de Dobrin, et sex milia hominum utriusque sexus, alios trucidando, quosdam vero ad perpetuam sue gentilitatis servitutem miserabiliter deducendob interemerunt. Preterea septem sacerdotes plebanos et duos fratres ordinis sancti Benedicti, et cum hiis omnibus sexaginta clericos, tarn ordinatos quam inordinatos, extra et intra schole loca repertos occiderunt. Item x parochiales ecclesias acc capitalem dicti ducatus civitatem, dictam Do brin, captis et occisis in illa duobus milibus Cristianorum, et cunctas ducatus villas per incendium vastaverunt. Insuper et cum damnis prefatis tot et tanta diversarum rerum spolia abduxerunt, quod cristifidelibus in perpetua gentilita tis Servitute permansuris, dicti ducatus terra damna memorata (lugubri memo ria bene digna) vix aut nunquam poterit recuperare; et indubitanter formidandum est et dolendum, quod per dicti ducatus annihilacionem patebit facilior aditus infidelibus ad Cristianorum terminos contiguos et vicinos. Ecce quanta malad fidei cristiane et fidelibus infra spacium unius anni et dimidii sunt exorta, quia fere xx milia hominum cristianorum ab infidelibus occisa et in servitutem perpetuam sunt deducta, et multe civitates et castra penitus sunt destructe.
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