De expugnacione aliorum castrorum, et subjectione terre Wohenstorph.
The Fall of Ochtolite and the Submission of Three Forts
The Königsberg commander besieges and destroys the fort of Ochtolite, killing and capturing its defenders, after which the garrisons of Unsatrapis, Gundow, and Angetete surrender and submit to the Christian faith and the brothers.
The following year, the same commander from Königsberg gathered a strong army once again and set out for the aforementioned land of Wohenstorph. Their camp was pitched and measured out for the siege of the fort Ochtolite, and storming it in the manner described above, they captured many men there and in its territory, killed others, and burned everything to the ground. The garrison soldiers from three other forts — namely Unsatrapis, Gundow, and Angetete — seeing that the lord was fighting for the brothers and that they could no longer resist them in war, gave hostages and submitted their necks in humility to the Christian faith and to the brothers.1
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Sequenti anno idem commendator de Kunigsbergk validum exercitum iterum congregavit, et ad dictam terram Wohenstorph est profectus, castraque metati sunt in obsidione castri Ochtolite, et modo supradicto ipsum expugnantes, captis ibi pluribus hominibus et in ipsius territorio et occisis, funditus combusserunt. Castrenses autem de tribus aliis castris, scilicet Unsatrapis, Gundow et Angetete, videntes, quod dominus pugnaret pro fratribus, et non possent eis amplius in bello resistere, dederunt obsides et colla sua fidei Cristiane et fratribus humiliterf subjecerunt.
Notes
- 1 ↩The manuscript reads 'humiliterf' — a scribal error for 'humiliter' (humbly). The translation follows the corrected reading.
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