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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Marbach Annals is in Early Medieval Books.
Early Medieval Books, Marbach Annals, Annals of Konrad von Scheyern
15th August 1196. Conrad, Duke of the Swabians (age 24), launched an expedition against the Duke of Zähringen; during which, while attempting to deflower a girl by force, he was bitten on the left nipple, and a black swelling grew. Not wanting to be slowed by this, he died on the third day in Oppenheim, and was buried in Speyer. Philip (age 19), his brother, succeeded him in the duchy.
Chounradus dux Suevorum expeditionem adversus ducem de Zaringen movit; in qua per amplexum cuiusdam puellae, quam vi devirginare conabatur, morsu in sinistra papilla tactus, vesica crescente nigra, nec per hoc eo tardare volente, tercia die obiit in Oppenheim, Spiraeque sepelitur. Philippus frater eius succedit in ducatu,
Early Medieval Books, Marbach Annals, Chronicle of Burchard of Ursperg
15th August 1196. At that time in Alamannia, Conrad (age 24), the emperor's brother and Duke of the Swabians, raised an army against Duke Bertold of Zähringen by the emperor's will. While he stayed in a certain town named Durlach, he died and was buried in the monastery of Lorch. Many asserted that he was killed by someone whose wife he had violently violated, or by the wife herself. For he was a man completely devoted to adulteries, fornications, and rapes, indulging in all sorts of luxuries and filth, yet he was vigorous in wars and fierce and generous to friends, and both his own people and foreigners trembled under him. Then the emperor conferred the Duchy of Swabia to the aforementioned Philip (age 19), his brother, who, having left parts of Italy, crossed into Alamannia with his wife, placing her in the castle of Schwäbisch Hall. At that time, by the emperor's command, he also placed the royal diadem on King Ottokar of Bohemia.
In tempore illo in Alamannia Cuonradus, frater imperatoris, dux Suevorum, movit exercitum contra Bertoldum ducem Zaringiae de voluntate imperatoris. Cumque maneret in quodam opido Durlaich nomine, obiit et sepultus est in monasterio Loricensi. Multi asserebant, eum fuisse interfectum a quodam, cuius uxorem adulteravit violenter, sive ab ipsa uxore. Erat enim vir totus inserviens adulteriis et fornicationibus et stupris, quibuslibet luxuriis et immundiciis, strennuus tamen erat in bellis et ferox et largus amicis, et tam sui quam extranei tremebant sub eo. Tune imperator ducatum Sueviae contulit prefato Philippo, fratri suo, qui relictis partibus Italiae transivit in Alamanniam cum uxore sua, ponens eam in castro Suainhusen. Tunc etiam de mandato imperatoris regium diadema imposuit regi Boemorum Otakero.