De destructione terre Colmensis.
The Treacherous Invasion of Kolm
King Lotheco of Poland deceitfully broke truces and laid waste to the land of Kolm with fire and plunder, committing a shocking and abominable wickedness.
In the middle of the time when these things were taking place, and on that same day, Lotheco, king of Poland — of evil — February. He fulfilled what he had long conceived, and with six thousand fighters he deceitfully entered the land of Kolm — the truces he had made with the king of Bohemia and the master notwithstanding — and for five days and five nights he laid it waste with fire and plunder. Behold, a shocking and abominable wickedness.
A Defender Turned Persecutor
The king of Poland, recently appointed by the apostolic see to defend the Church, instead cruelly attacked the faithful while Christian forces were occupied avenging the crucified Lord.
This king was previously a duke, and had recently been appointed king by the apostolic see, so that he might be — sufficiently — a more diligent and more faithful and more vigorous defender of the Church, the faith, and the faithful. Now, however, he not only fails to defend the company of the faithful — he cruelly attacks those who do defend them. And what is worse: when the king of Bohemia, the master, and their army were in the act of attacking unbelievers and avenging the injury to the Lord who was crucified, this man himself perpetrated the wickedness we described above.
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Medio tempore, quo hec agerentur, et eodem die Lotheco rex Polonie mali-i. Febr. ciam, quam diu conceperat, adimplevit, et cum vi milibus pugnatorum dolose non obstantibus treugis, quas cum rege Bohemie et magistro fecerat, intravit terram Colmensem et v diebus et v noctibus vastavit incendio et rapina. Ecce stupendum et exsecrabile nefas. Iste rex antea fuit dux, et noviter a sede apostolica in regem institutus, ut esset sa'ficte ecclesie, fidei et fidelium eo diligencior et fidelior et magis strenuus propugnator. Nunc autem non solum non defendit cetum fidelium, sed eos, qui defendunt, crudeliter impugnat. Et quod deterius est, cum rex Bohemie, et magister et exercitus eorum essent in actu impugnandi infideles et vindicandi injuriam domini crucifixi, ipse maliciam, quam supra diximus, perpetravitl.
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