De vastacione Ungarie et Polonie et morte Colmani fratris regis Ungari.
The Tartar Devastation of Hungary and Poland
The Tartar invasion of Hungary and Poland brought death to King Colman, Duke Henry, and countless common people, reducing the lands to desolation so severe that survivors resorted to using mountain dust as flour.
and of Henry, duke of Wra[tislavie]. In the same year, the Tartar people of the eastern region invaded Hungary and Poland, and there in battle they killed Colman, the brother of the king of Hungary, and Henry, the duke of Poland, and the rest of the common people whom they could find, and they reduced those lands to desolation, so that many used the dust of a certain mountain as flour. (Mart. p. 399.)
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et Henrici ducis Wra tislavie. 3 Eodem annos gens Tartarorum orientis plage Ungariam et Poloniam intraverunt, ibique in bello Colmanum fratrem regis Ungarie et Henricum ducem Polonie et reliquum vulgus, quod invenire poterant, occiderunt, et terras illas redegerunt in solitudinem, ita ut multi pulvere cujus dam montis pro farina uterentur. (Mart. p. 399.)
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