De exustione castri Jedemini et suburbii.
The Burning of Jedemini
Brothers from Raganita launch a surprise dawn raid on the suburb of Jedemini, burning it and its inhabitants to the ground while the Lithuanians slept.
At the same time, the brothers from Raganita with their subjects secretly entered the suburb of Jedemini castle at the break of day while the Lithuanians were sleeping, and burned it all to the ground — the men, women, children, and every last piece of furniture — except for twelve men who fled to the castle and escaped the sentence of death.
Riga's Surrender to the Teutonic Order
The city of Riga, driven by famine and internal sedition, surrenders itself and all its rights to Brother Eberhard of Monheim, master of Livonia, with a wry remark from a woman about the master's imposing stature.
On the destruction of the city of Riga. In the year mentioned above, that is, 1330, at Easter time, the city of Riga — on April the 13th — underwent a temporal death between the citizens of Riga on one side and the brothers of the Teutonic House from Livonia on the other, because of the worsening famine and the sedition that was feared among the city's leaders and the common people. The citizens were compelled to hand over themselves, their possessions, the city, their liberties, and all their rights and privileges into the hands of Brother Eberhard of Monheim, master of the land of Livonia, and of the brothers, so that the master might enter the city on the strength of these concessions — before the ditches were filled in along the wall to a length of thirty cubits. And a certain woman said: 'This master is certainly very large in body — he takes up so much space — and he doesn't come in through the other gates like the rest of us Christians.'
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Eodem tempore fratres de Raganita cum suis subditis occulte in ortu dieiio dormientibus Lethowinis intraverunt suburbium castri Jedemini et totum illud cum hominibus, mulieribus et parvulis et omni supellectili penitus combusserunt, preter xii viros, qui ad castrum fugientes mortis judicium evaserunt. De destructione civitatis Rigensis. is Anno predicto, scilicet mcccxxx tempore paschali cum jam civitas Rigensis13^ April) dia inter cives Rigenses ex una parte et fratres domus Theutonice de Lyvonia ex altera mortem subiit temporalem, quocl invalescente fame et sedicione, que timebatur intera rectores civitatis et communem populumb, coacti sunt cives se et sua et civitatem et libertates et omnia jura et privilegia sua tradere in manus fratris Eberhardi de Monheim magistri terre Lyvonie et fratrum, ut de hiis omniintravit civitatem magister, priusquam fossata essent impleta cum muro in longitudine xxx cubitorum. Et dixit quedam mulier: Utique iste magister valde grossus est in corpore, qui requirit tantum spacium, et non intrat per alias portas sicut ceteri homines cristiani.
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