De tradicione castri Nakel, et depredacione terre Pomeranie.
The Legate Summons the Crusaders
The papal legate, anxious for the success of the faith and the downfall of the Pomeranian duke, summons Duke Casimir of Poland, the duke of Calis, and the Teutonic brothers to march against Swantepolcus.
The legate of the Apostolic See, who was pressed by constant cares and anxieties over the business of the faith—so that it might advance and the enemy of the faith, the duke of Pomerania, might fall away—seeing that the war was beginning to prosper somewhat at the hands of the brothers, summoned to himself Duke Casimir from Poland and the duke of Calis and the brothers, and advised them to proceed with an army against Swantepolcus.
The Surrender of Nakel Castle
The allied army besieges the castle of Nakel with siege engines and disciplined camps, and the terrified garrison surrenders on terms of safe passage with their possessions.
They, obeying his commands, marched with a great army toward his castle at Nakel, pitched their tents there, and with the camps arranged according to military discipline, with siege engines and other instruments of war set up, and with everything necessary for assaulting fortified places prepared, the garrison soldiers, terrified, surrendered the castle to the brothers on these conditions: that they might leave safely with their possessions and persons unharmed.
Devastation of Pomerania
After garrisoning Nakel, the army ravages Pomerania from end to end, burning, killing, taking captives, and returning with great plunder.
They stationed brothers and armigers there for its defense, and with the rest of the army entered the land of Pomerania, sweeping from one end to the other, handling all things boldly but not gently—indeed, they burned whatever could be consumed by fire, killed many, took women and children captive, and returned with the greatest plunder.
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Legatus sedis apostolice *, qui continuis curis et sollicitudinibus urgebatur circa fidei negocium, ut proficeret, et inimicus fidei dux Pomeranie" deficeret, videns, quod bellum inciperet aliqualiter prosperari in manu fratum, vocatis ad se de Polonia duce Casimire et duce de Calis et fratribus, consuluit eis, ut cum exercitu procederent contra Swantepolcum. Qui mandatis ejus parentes, secesserunt cum magno exercitu versus castrum ipsius Nakel, figentes ibi tentoria sua, et castris ibi secundum militarem disciplinam collocatis, et erectis ibi machinis et instrumentis aliis bellicis, et preparatis omnibus, que ad impugnacionem urbium necessaria sunt, castrenses perterriti, sub hiis condicionibus, ut salvis rebus et personis possent exire, castrum fratribus tradiderunt. Qui locantes in eo fratres et armigeros pro custodia, cum alia parte exercitus intraverunt terram Pomeranie attingentes a fine usque ad finem fortiter, sed non suaviter omnia disponentes, imo quicquid igne consumi potuit, combusserunt, occisis plurimis et mulieribus captis et parvulis cum preda maxima redierunt.
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