Lupus Protospatarius Barensis: ab Anno Sal. 860 vsque ad 1102

Anno 868. Indictìone prima exierunt Agareni à Baro Civitate per Francos, tertia die intrante mensis Febr. eodemq; anno comprehensus est praedictus Ludovicus in Benevento.

In the year 868. In the first Indiction the Agarenes went out from the City of Bari by the Franks, on the third day, as the month of Feb. was beginning, and in the same year the aforesaid Louis was seized in Benevento.

Anno 875. intraverunt Graeci Barum mense Decembr. die Natalis Domini, feria 3. et Gregorius Stratigo, qui et Baiulus dicebatur.

In the year 875, the Greeks entered Bari in the month of December, on the day of the Nativity of the Lord, a Tuesday; and Gregory the Strategos, who was also called the Baiulus.

Anno 880. exierunt Agareni de Tarento.

In the year 880. the Hagarenes went out from Taranto.

Anno 884. Indic. 2. surrexit Alo Princeps mense Octobris.

In the year 884. Indiction 2. Alo the Prince arose in the month of October.

Anno 885. mortuus est Basilius Imper. et coeperunt regere Leo, et Alexander filij eius ann.

In the year 885. Basil the Emperor died, and Leo, and Alexander, his sons, began to rule in that year.

26. soli, cum eo verò ann. 9.

26. alone, but with him indeed 9 years.

Anno 886. facta fuit proditio in Baro mense Iunij, quando Princeps fecit proelium cum Stratigo Trapezi, et Graecis.

In the year 886, treachery was committed in Baro in the month of June, when the Prince fought a battle with the Strategos of Trebizond and the Greeks.

Anno 890. obijt Alo Princeps, et surrexit Ursus frater eius.

In the year 890, Alo the Prince died, and Ursus his brother arose.

Anno 891. intraverunt Graeci Beneventum mense Octobris, et Stratigo Sabbatichi in Siponto mense Iunij.

In the year 891 the Greeks entered Benevento in the month of October, and the Strategos Sabbatichus in Siponto in the month of June.

Anno 894. exierunt Graeci de Benevento mense Aug. per Francos.

In the year 894. the Greeks departed from Benevento in the month of Aug. by the Franks.

Anno 900. descendit Melisianus Stratigo in Apulia.

In the year 900, the Melisian Strategos descended into Apulia.

Anno 901. descendit Abraham Rex Sarracenorum in Calabriam, et ivit Cosentiam Civitatem, (a) et percussus est ictu fulguris.

In the year 901. Abraham, King of the Saracens, descended into Calabria, and went to the city of Cosentia, (a) and was struck by a bolt of lightning.

Anno 912. complentur ab obitu S. Martini anni 51.

In the year 912. 51 years are completed since the death of St. Martin.

Anno 913. Ind. prima coronatus est Constantius Imp.

In the year 913. in the first Indiction Constantius the Emperor was crowned

filius praedicti Leonis, qui regnavit ann. 47.

the son of the aforesaid Leo, who reigned 47 years.

Anno 916. exierunt Agareni de Gariliano, et sunt anni 350. quo intraverunt Langobardi in Italiam sub Alboun Rege eorum.

In the year 916 the Agarenes went out from the Garigliano, and it is 350 years since the Langobards entered Italy under their king Alboin.

Anno 916. explentur 40. anni, ex quo Agareni introierunt in Italiam.

In the year 916. 40 years are fulfilled, since the Agarenes entered into Italy.

Anno 920. introierunt Ungari, idest Unni in Italiam mense Februarij.

In the year 920. the Hungarians, that is, the Huns, entered into Italy in the month of February.

Anno 921. Interijt Ursileo Stratigo in proelio de Asculo mense Aprilis, et apprehendit Pandulphum Apuleo.

In the year 921. Ursileo the Strategos perished in the battle of Ascoli in the month of April, and he apprehended Pandulf in Apulia.

Anno 924. capta est Oria à Sarracenis mense Iulij, et interfecerunt cunctas mulieres, reliquos verò deduxerunt in Africam cunctos venundantes. Cod.

In the year 924, Oria was captured by the Saracens in the month of July, and they killed all the women, but they led the rest to Africa, selling them all. Cod.

Andr. et hoc anno Eusebìus obijt Clusij*

Andr. and in this year Eusebius died at Clusium*

Anno 926. comprehendit Michael Sclabus Sipontum mense Iulij.

In the year 926, Michael the Slav seized Siponto in the month of July.

Anno 927. fuit excidium Tarenti patratum, et perempti sunt omnes viriliter pugnando: reliqui vero deportati sunt in Africam, Id factum est mense Augusti in festivitate Sanctae Mariae.

In the year 927, the destruction of Tarentum was accomplished, and all were slain while fighting manfully; the rest indeed were deported to Africa. This was done in the month of August, on the feast of Saint Mary.

Anno 929. Indict. 2. Pandulphus, et Guaymarius (b)Principes intraverunt in Apuliam.

In the year 929. Indiction 2. Pandulf and Guaimar (b), princes, entered Apulia.

Anno 936. venerunt Ungari Capuam.

In the year 936. the Hungarians came to Capua.

Anno 939. obscuratus est Sol, et apparuerunt stellae mense Iulij (c) astante tres dies, feria 3. ad horas tres. Luna 29.

In the year 939. the Sun was darkened, and the stars appeared in the month of July (c), lasting three days, on the third weekday at the third hour. Moon 29.

(d) Anno 940. introierunt Ungari, vel Unni in Italiam mense Aprilis, et factum est proelium in Matera à Graecis cum Langobardis Cum Stratigo Imogalapto et negavit eum Pao in mari.

(d) In the year 940. The Hungarians, or Huns, entered Italy in the month of April, and a battle was fought at Matera by the Greeks with the Langobards, with the strategos Imogalapto, and Pao denied him at sea.

Anno 942. obijt Pandulphus Princeps die 10. mensis Aprilis.

In the year 942. Prince Pandulf died on the 10th day of the month of April.

Anno 945. Ind. 3. ceciderunt Romanus, et Ubo mense Decembri, et perierunt Ungari à Rege Othone.

In the year 945. Indiction 3. Romanus and Ubo fell in the month of December, and the Hungarians perished by King Otto.

Anno 946. Factum est homicidium. Bari mense Decembris, inter Cives.

In the year 946. A homicide was done. At Bari in the month of December, among the Citizens.

Anno 947. Introierunt Ungari in Italiam, et perrexerunt usque Hydruntum. Et Platopidi (a) sedit in Civitate Cupersani, et fuit eo anno bonus introitus (b) per omnem terram.

In the year 947. the Hungarians entered Italy, and proceeded as far as Hydruntum. And Platopidi (a) sat in the City of Cupersani, and in that year there was a good yield (b) throughout all the land.

Anno 950. obsederunt Graeci Asculum, et obtinuerunt.

In the year 950. the Greeks besieged Asculum, and took it.

Anno 951. (c) Malachianus fecit proelium in Calabria cum Sarracenis, et cecidit.

In the year 951. (c) Malachianus fought a battle in Calabria with the Saracens, and fell.

Anno 955. descendit Marianus Patritius in Apuliam.

In the year 955, Marianus the Patrician descended into Apulia.

Anno 956. Incensi sunt (d) Murancius Cleri, et Excelsula in Baro.

In the year 956. were burned (d) Murancius Cleri, and Excelsula in Baro.

Anno 960. Indict. 3. obijt Constantinus Imp.

In the year 960. Indiction 3. Constantine the Emperor died.

qui regnavit ann. 47. et surrexit Romanus filius eius, et fuit proelium inter (e) Adralistum, et Ismael.

who reigned 47 years; and Romanus, his son, arose, and there was a battle between (e) Adralistus and Ishmael.

Anno 961. capta est Insula Cretes a Graecis sub Romano, mense Martij, et (a) Titabomen capta est à Sarracenis, et obscuratus est Sol.

In the year 961. the Island of Crete was captured by the Greeks under Romanus, in the month of March, and (a) Titabomen was captured by the Saracens, and the Sun was obscured.

Anno 963. obijt Romanus Imperator, et elevatus est Nichiphorus, qui regnavit ann. 7. et Otho Rex intravit Romam, et obscuratus est Sol.

In the year 963, Romanus the Emperor died, and Nichiphorus was elevated, who reigned 7 years; and King Otto entered Rome, and the Sun was darkened.

Anno 965. introivit (b)Manuyci Patritius in Siciliam, et ibi mortuus est.

In the year 965. (b)Manuyci the Patrician entered into Sicily, and there he died.

Anno 966. Introivit Nichiphorus (c) Magister in Civitatem Bari, et sunt anni 400. ex quo (d) introierunt Langobardi in Italiam.

In the year 966. Nichiphorus (c) the Magister entered the City of Bari, and it is 400 years since which time (d) the Langobards entered Italy.

Anno 967. descendit Otho Rex, et senex, pater Othonis Regis, qui (e) pugnavit cum Bulcassimo Sarracenorum Rege, et interfecit eum

In the year 967. King Otto descended, and the elder, the father of King Otto, who (e) fought with Bulcassimus, king of the Saracens, and killed him

Anno 969, introivit Otho Rex in Apuliam mense Martij, et obsedit Civitatem Bari irrito conatu, et in alio anno intravit in Calabriam mense Octobris, et Sol obscuratus est mense Decembris.

In the year 969, Otho the King entered Apulia in the month of March, and besieged the City of Bari in a vain attempt, and in another year he entered Calabria in the month of October, and the Sun was darkened in the month of December.

Anno 970. octidit Simischi Nichiforum Imp. et elevatus est ille.

In the year 970, Tzimiskes killed Nikephoros the Emperor, and he was elevated.

Anno 972. pugnavit Asto filius Transamundi Marchisij cum (b)40. mil. Sarracenorum.

In the year 972, Asto, son of Transamund the marquis, fought against (b)40 thousand Saracens.

Caytus eorum Bucobolus vocabatur, et vicit Asto cum 60. suis prosequens Agarenos usque Tarentum.

Their caid was called Bucobolus, and Asto defeated them with 60. of his men, pursuing the Hagarenes as far as Tarentum.

Anno 973. Ind. I. (c) obijt Pasaarus Protospata.

In the year 973. Indiction 1. (c) Pasaarus Protospata died.

Anno 975. Ismael Interfectus est, et Zacharias Botuntum cepit.

In the year 975. Ismael was slain, and Zacharias captured Botuntum.

Anno 976. obsederunt Sarraceni Gravinam irrito conatu, et obijt Simischi Imp. qui et Ioannes et coeperunt regnare Basilius, et Constantinus germani.

In the year 976. the Saracens besieged Gravina with a vain attempt, and Tzimiskes the Emperor, who is also John, died, and Basil and Constantine, brothers, began to reign.

Anno 977. incenderunt Agareni Civitatem Oriae, et cunctum vulgus in Siciliam deduxerunt.

In the year 977. the Agarenes burned the City of Oria, and led the whole populace away to Sicily.

Anno 978. mortuus est Ioannes Episcopus, et surrexit Pao Archiepiscopus.

In the year 978. Bishop John died, and Pao arose as Archbishop.

Anno 979. Occidit Porphyrius Protospata Andream Episcopum Oretanum mense Augusti.

In the year 979, Porphyrius, the Protospatharius, slew Andrew, Bishop of Oria, in the month of August.

Anno 981. fecit proelium Otho Rex cum Sarracenis in Calabria in Civitate Cotruna, et mortui sunt ibi 40. mil. Poenorum cum Rege eorum, nomine Bulcassimus.

In the year 981, Otho the King fought a battle with the Saracens in Calabria, in the city of Cotruna, and there 40,000 of the Punics died along with their king, named Bulcassimus.

Anno 982. tradita est Civitas Barij in manus Chalochyri Patritij, (b)qui et Delfina, à duobus fratribus Sergio, et Theophilacto mense lunij xj. die, et Otho Rex obijt Romae.

In the year 982 the City of Bari was handed over into the hands of Chalochyrus the Patrician, (b) who was also Delphina, by two brothers, Sergius and Theophylact, in the month of June on the 11th day, and Otto the King died at Rome.

Anno 983. apprehendit (c) praedictus Delfina, Patritius, Civitatem Asculum mense Decembris.

In the year 983, the aforesaid Delfina, a Patricius, seized (c) the City of Asculum in the month of December.

Anno 985. Descendit Romanus Patritius cum filio suo in Apuliam.

In the year 985. Romanus the Patrician descended with his son into Apulia.

Anno 986. comprehenderunt Sarraceni (d) Sanctam Chiriachi Civitatem, et dissipaverunt Calabriam totam.

In the year 986. The Saracens (d) seized the City of Saint Cyriacus, and devastated all of Calabria.

Anno 987. occisus est (a) Sergius Protospata a Barensibus mense Februarij, et mortuus est (b)Adraliscus à Nicolao Crioti mense Augusti xv. die, et obscuratus est Sol.

In the year 987, Sergius Protospata was slain (a) by the people of Bari in the month of February, and Adraliscus died (b)by Nicholas Criotus on the 15th day of the month of August, and the Sun was darkened.

Anno 988. Indict. prima depopulaverunt Sarraceni Vicos Barenses, et viros, ac mulieres in Siciliam captivos duxerunt.

In the year 988. In the first Indiction the Saracens depopulated the Bari villages, and led men and women as captives into Sicily.

Anno 989. descendit Ioannes Patricius, qui et Ammiropolus, et occidit Leonem Cannatum, et Nicolaum Critis, et Porphyrium.

In the year 989, John the Patricius, who is also Ammiropolus, came down and killed Leo Cannatus, and Nicholas the Cretan, and Porphyrius.

Anno 990. occisus est Bubalus, (c) et Petrus Exubitus mense Martij.

In the year 990. Bubalus was slain, (c) and Peter Exubitus in the month of March.

Anno 991. fecit bellum (d) Asto Comes cum Sarracenis in Tarento, et ibi cecidit ille cum multis Barensibus.

In the year 991, (d) Count Asto made war with the Saracens in Taranto, and there he fell along with many men of Bari.

Anno 992. magna fames per totam Italiam, et annonae caritas.

In the year 992. great famine throughout all Italy, and dearness of the grain-supply.

Anno 993. defunctus est Pao Archiepiscopus, et Chrisostomus elevatus est.

In the year 993. Pao the Archbishop passed away, and Chrisostomus was elevated.

Anno 994. obsessa est Matera à Sarracenis tribus mensibus, et quarto capta ab eis. Cod.

In the year 994. Matera was besieged by the Saracens for three months, and in the fourth it was taken by them. Cod.

Andr. in qua mulier quaedam fame coacta proprium comedit filium.

Andr. in which a certain woman, compelled by famine, ate her own son.

Anno 997. occisus est Marcho Theodorus Excubitus in Civitate Oriae à Smaragdo, et Petro germanis.

In the year 997. the Marquess Theodore Excubitus was slain in the City of Oria by Smaragdus and Peter, brothers.

Anno 998. venit (a) Busitus Coytus cum praedicto Smaragdo Barum mense Octobris, et praedictus Smaragdus Eques intravit Barum per vim à porta Occidentali, et exiit iterum: tunc Busitus cognita fraude discessit.

In the year 998. (a) Busitus Coytus came with the aforesaid Smaragdus to Bari in the month of October, and the aforesaid Smaragdus, a Knight, entered Bari by force through the Western gate, and went out again: then Busitus, the fraud having been recognized, departed.

Anno 999. descendit (b)Trachamotus Catapanus, qui & Gregorius, et obsedit Civitatem Gravinam, et comprehendit Theophilactum.

In the year 999. (b)Trachamotus the Catapan, who is also Gregory, came down and besieged the City of Gravina, and apprehended Theophylact.

Anno Domini 1000. Indic. 13. captus est praedictus Smaragdus à Trachamoto mense Iulij XI. die, et obijt Rex Otho Romae.

In the year of the Lord 1000. Indiction 13. the aforesaid Smaragdus was captured by Trachamotus in the month of July, on the 11th day, and King Otho died at Rome.

Anno 1002. obsedit Saphi Caytus Barum 2. Maij usque ad Sanctum Lucam mense Octobris, tunc liberata est per Petrum Ducem Veneticorum. Cod.

In the year 1002, Saphi Caytus besieged Bari from May 2 until Saint Luke in the month of October; then it was freed by Peter, Duke of the Venetians. Cod.

Andr. à bona memoria dictum.

A dictum by Andrew of blessed memory.

Anno 1003. Indict. prima Sarraceni obsederunt Montem Scaviosum mense Martij: et nihil profecerunt.

In the year 1003. First Indiction, the Saracens besieged Mount Scaviosus in the month of March: and they achieved nothing.

Anno 1005. redijt Durachium in manus Imperatoris per Theodorum.

In the year 1005, Dyrrhachium returned into the hands of the Emperor through Theodore.

Anno 1006. descendit (c) Xyphea Catapanus mense Iulij.

In the year 1006. descended (c) Xyphea the Catapan in the month of July.

Anno 1007. defunctus est praedictus Catapanus in Civitate Bari.

In the year 1007. the aforesaid Catapan died in the City of Bari.

Anno 1008. descendit (b)Curcua Patritius mense Maij.

In the year 1008. (b)Curcua the Patricius descended in the month of May.

Anno 1009. cecidit maxima nix, ex qua siccaverunt arbores olivae, et pisces, et volatilia mortua sunt, et mense Maij incepta est rebellio, et mense Augusti apprehenderunt Sarraceni Civitatem Cosentiam rupto foedere nomine Cayti Sati.

In the year 1009, a greatest snow fell, from which the olive trees dried up, and fish and birds died; and in the month of May a rebellion was begun, and in the month of August the Saracens seized the City of Cosenza, the treaty broken, by one by the name of Cayti Sati.

Anno 1010. obijt Curcua, & descendit Basilius Catapanus cum Macedonibus mense Martij, et Syllistus incendit multos homines in Civitate Trani.

In the year 1010. Curcua died, & Basil the Catapan descended with the Macedonians in the month of March, and Syllistus burned many people in the City of Trani.

Cod. Andr. eodem anno 1010.

Cod. Andr. in the same year 1010.

Langobardia rebellavit à Caesare opera Melo Ducis: isque accurrens proeliatus est Botunti contra Barenses, ubi ipsi obierunt, et Ismaël proeliatus est cum Graecis in Monte Pelusio, ubi peremptus est Dux.

Lombardy rebelled from the Emperor by the agency of Duke Melo; and he, hastening thither, fought at Botuntum against the Barensians, where they themselves met death; and Ismaël fought with the Greeks on Mount Pelusius, where the Duke was slain.

Cod. Andr. Basilius Catapanus Barium obsidione cinxit à die XI. Aprilis usque ad XI. Iunij, et cepit eam cum quibusdam conditionibus.

Cod. Andr. Basil the Catapan girded Bari with a siege from the day 11 April up to 11 June, and took it on certain conditions.

Anno 1014. venit Henricus Imp. Romam mense Februarii, et Cassanus incensa est mense Augusti.

In the year 1014, Henry the Emperor came to Rome in the month of February, and Cassanus was burned in the month of August.

Anno 1015. apparuit Cometa mense Februarij, et Samuel Rex obijt, et filius regnavit.

In the year 1015. A Comet appeared in the month of February, and King Samuel died, and his son reigned.

Anno 1016. occisus est filius praedicti Samuelis (a) ab eius consobrina filio Aroni, et regnavit ipse, et Civitas Salernum obsessa est a Sarracenis per mare, et per terram: et nihil profecerunt.

In the year 1016. the son of the aforesaid Samuel was killed (a) by his cousin, the son of Aaron, and he himself reigned, and the City of Salerno was besieged by the Saracens by sea, and by land: and they accomplished nothing.

Anno 1017. obijt Butunti (b)Mesardoniti Catapanus, et mense Novembris interfectus est Leo frater Argiri, et descendit Turnichi Catapanus mense Maij, et fecit proelium cum Melo, et Normannis. Leo Patianus Exubitus iterum mense Iulij 22. die proelium fecit praedictus Turnichius Catapanus, et vicit Melum, et Normannos, et mortuus est Patianus ibi.

In the year 1017. at Butunti (b)Mesardonites the Catapan died, and in the month of November Leo, the brother of Argyrus, was killed, and the Catapan Turnichius descended in the month of May, and he fought a battle with Melo and the Normans. Leo Patianus, Exubitus, again, in the month of July, on the 22nd day, the aforesaid Catapan Turnichius fought a battle, and he defeated Melo and the Normans, and Patianus died there.

Anno 1018. Indict. prima descendit Basilius Catapanus, qui et Bugianus, et Abalautius Patricius mense Decembris, et Ligorius (c) Tepoteriti fecit proelium Trani, et occisus est ibi Ioannatius Protospata, et Romoald captus est, et in Constantinopolim deportatus est.

In the year 1018, first indiction, Basilius the Catapan came down, who also was called Bugianus, and Abalautius the Patricius, in the month of December; and Ligorius (c), of Tepoteritus, fought a battle at Trani, and there Ioannatius Protospata was killed, and Romoald was captured and deported to Constantinople.

Anno 1019. fecit proelium supradictus Bugianus mense Octobris cum Fransic, et vicit, et Melus fugijt cum aliquibus Francis ad Enricum Imp. Cod.

In the year 1019, the aforesaid Bugianus made battle in the month of October with the Franks, and he won, and Melus fled with some Franks to Henry the Emperor. Cod.

Andr. et hoc proelium factum est ad Civitatem Cannensem.

Andr. and this battle was fought at the City of Cannae.

Anno 1020. descenderunt Sarraceni cum Rayca, et obsederunt Bisinianum, et illud apprehenderunt. Et hoc anno mortuus est ipse Amira, et Melus Dux Apuliae.

In the year 1020, the Saracens came down with Rayca, and they besieged Bisinianum, and they seized it. And in this year the Emir himself died, and Melus, Duke of Apulia.

Anno 1021. captus est (a) Dattus, et intravit in Civitatem Barum equitatus in Asina, 15. Iunij.

In the year 1021, Dattus was captured (a), and he entered into the City of Bari, mounted on a she-ass, 15 June.

Anno 1022. venit Enricus Imp. Beneventum mense Martij, et obsedit Troiam in Capitinata.

In the year 1022, Henry the Emperor came to Benevento in the month of March, and besieged Troia in Capitinata.

Anno 1023. Venit Rayca (b)cum Saffari Criti Barum mense Iunij, et obsedit eam uno die: et amoti exinde comprehanderunt (c) Palagianum oppidum, et fabricatum est Castellum in Motula.

In the year 1023. Rayca (b) with Saffari of Crete came to Bari in the month of June, and besieged it for one day: and, moving away from there, they seized (c) the town of Palagianum, and a Castle was built in Motula.

Anno 1024. factum est signum magnum in Episcopio Acherontino sub praesule secundo Stephano Materiensi in 5. die Paschae: Crucifixus enim magnus argenteus concussus est tribus vicibus capite, brachijs, et pedibus, cunctis hoc aspicientibus, et cecidit nix magna. Et transfretavit Bugianus in (d) Curbathia, et comprehendit ipsam Principissam uxorem (a) Cosmici, et direxit illam Constantinopolim, et mortuus est hoc anno Enricus Imp.

In the year 1024. a great sign took place in the Episcopium of Acherontium under the prelate Stephen II of Matera on the 5. day of Easter: for a great silver crucifix was shaken three times at the head, arms, and feet, while all were looking on, and great snow fell. And Bugianus crossed over into (d) Curbathia, and seized the Princess herself, the wife of (a) Cosmici, and sent her to Constantinople, and in this year Henry the Emperor died.

et surrexit Conus nepos eius

and Conus, his nephew, rose up

Cod. Andr. 1027.

Codex Andr., 1027.

Despotus Nicus in Italiam descendit cum ingentibus copijs Russorum, Uvandalorum, Turcarum, Bulgarorum, Brunchorum, Polonorum, Macedonum, aliarumque nationum, ad Siciliam capiendam. Captum est autem Rhegium, et ob Civium peccata, destructum est a Vulcano Catapano. Et Basilius Imp.

Despot Nicus descended into Italy with immense forces of Russians, Vandals, Turks, Bulgars, Brunchi, Poles, Macedonians, and other nations, to take Sicily. Moreover Rhegium was captured, and, on account of the citizens’ sins, it was destroyed by Vulcan, the Catapan. And Basil the Emperor.

obijt anno secundo. Itaque Graeci recesserunt die S. Martini. Iam vero Basilius, vivens renuntiavit Imperio, sibi substituens Romanum, cui uxorem dedit Zoam filiam suam.

he died in the second year. Therefore the Greeks withdrew on St. Martin's day. Now indeed Basil, while still living, renounced the Empire, substituting Romanus in his place, to whom he gave his daughter Zoe as wife.

Anno 1028. descendit Oresti Chetoniti mense Aprilis, et tunc obijt Barensis Episcopus Ioannes, et factus est Bisancius Achiepiscopus.

In the year 1028, Orestes of Chieti came down in the month of April; and then John, Bishop of Bari, died, and Bisantius was made archbishop.

Anno 1029. venit Eustachius cum filijs Basilico, et Mandatora, et elegit Catapanum Christophorum. et Orestes praedictus ascendit in Constantinopolim cum Bugiano, et mortuus est Constantinus Imperator in vigilia S. Martini, et se vivente imposuit in Sede sua Romanum, et dedit ei uxorem Zoem filiam suam.

In the year 1029, Eustachius came with his sons Basilico and Mandatora, and he chose Christopher as Catapan; and the aforesaid Orestes went up to Constantinople with Bugianus, and Constantine the Emperor died on the vigil of St. Martin, and while he was yet living he set Romanus upon his own See, and gave him his daughter Zoe as wife.

Tandem Rayca et Saffari obsederunt castellum Obbianum, qui Obbianenses extraneos tradentes pacificaverunt cum ipsis, et mense Iulij venit Potho Catapanus, fecitque pugnam cum Rayca in Baro. Cod. Andr.

At length Rayca and Saffari besieged the castle of Obbianum, and the Obbianenses, handing over the foreigners, made peace with them; and in the month of July Potho the Catapan came, and he fought with Rayca in Baro. Cod. Andr.

et hoc anno obijt Guaimarius Salerni Princeps.

and in this year Guaimar, Prince of Salerno, died.

Anno 1031. mense Iunij comprehenderunt Sarraceni Cassianum. Cod.

In the year 1031, in the month of June, the Saracens captured Cassianum. Cod.

Andr. in terra Hydruntina, et tertio die mensis Iulij fecit proelium (a) Potho cum Sarracenis, et ceciderunt Graeci.

Andrew in the Hydruntine land, and on the third day of the month of July Potho made battle (a) with the Saracens, and the Greeks fell.

Anno 1032. descendit Ichiacon, et Chetoniti, et secum adduxit ipsos Anacolichium.

In the year 1032. Ichiacon descended, and the Chetonites, and he brought with him Anacolichium himself.

Anno 1033. Indict. prima die prima mensis Maij descendit Constantinus Protospata, qui et Opo vocabatur Catapanus Italiae.

In the year 1033. Indiction 1, on the first day of the month of May, Constantine Protospatas, who was also called Opo, Catapan of Italy, came down.

Anno 1034, die xi. Aprilis obijt Romanus Imp. et surrexit Michael Imp.

In the year 1034, on the 11th day of April Romanus the Emperor died, and Michael ascended as Emperor.

Cod. Andr. Anno 1035.

Cod. Andr. Year 1035.

die Epiphaniae obijt Constantinopoli Byzantinus Episcopus Barensis. Qui sane fuit Orphanorum pater, et primariae Ecclesiae Barensis Fundator, Custosque Civitatis, eiusque egregius propugnator adversus Graecos. Electusque est Episcopus Romulantes Protospatarius: sed is Aprili mense ab Imperatore Constantinopolim evocatus exul obijt, et in eius locum electus est Nicolaus.

On the day of Epiphany, at Constantinople, Byzantinus, Bishop of Bari, died. He indeed was a father of orphans, and the founder of the primary Church of Bari, and a guardian of the City, and its distinguished champion against the Greeks. And Romulantes, the Protospatarius, was elected bishop; but he, in the month of April, having been summoned to Constantinople by the Emperor, died in exile, and in his place Nicholas was elected.

Anno 1038. Descendit Michael Patricius, et Dux, qui et Sfrondili vocabatur, et transfretavit cum Maniachi Patricio in Siciliam.

In the year 1038. Michael the Patrician and Duke descended, who also was called Sfrondili, and crossed over with Maniaces the Patrician into Sicily.

Anno 1039. mense Februarij descendit Nichiphorus Catapanus, qui et Dulchianus dicebatur.

In the year 1039, in the month of February, Nichiphorus the Catapan, who was also called Dulchianus, descended.

Anno 1040. praedictus Dulchianus excussit Contractos de Apulia, et praedicti Contracti occiderunt Chirifactora Crithiri Imperatorem subtus Mutulam, et Romanum Materiensem mense Maij eoq; mense obsedit Argyrus filius Meli Barum civitatem, et percussit Musandrum, et ligavit eum vinculo, et introivit cum eo Barum, et Contracti dispersi sunt.

In the year 1040. the aforesaid Dulchianus drove the Contracted out of Apulia, and the aforesaid Contracted killed the Chirifactor, the Emperor’s Judge, beneath Mottola, and Romanus of Matera in the month of May, and in that same month Argyrus, son of Melus, besieged the city of Bari, and struck Musander, and bound him with a chain, and went into Bari with him, and the Contracted were dispersed.

Anno 1041. descendit Dulchianus a Sicilia ivitque Asculum, et mense Martij Arduinus Lambardus convocavit Normannos, in Apulia in Civitate Melfiae, et praedictus Dulchianus fecit proelium cum Normannis, et ceciderunt Graeci, et mense Maij iterum proeliati sunt Normanni fer. IIII.

In the year 1041, Dulchianus descended from Sicily and went to Asculum, and in the month of March Arduin the Lombard convoked the Normans in Apulia, in the city of Melfi, and the aforesaid Dulchianus made battle with the Normans, and the Greeks fell; and in the month of May the Normans again fought, fer. 4.

cum Graecis, et fugit Dulchianus in Barum.

with the Greeks, and Dulchianus fled into Bari.

Anno 1042. venit... mense Augusto, fecitq; bellum cum Normannis 3. die mensis Septembris, et comprehensus est ille ibi, et in Melfiam deportatus est. Et mense Decembris obijt Michael Imper.

Year 1042. he came... in the month of August, and he made war with the Normans on the 3rd day of the month of September, and he was seized there, and was deported to Melfi. And in the month of December Michael the Emperor died.

et elevatus est Caesar Nepos eius nomine Michael Imp. et mense Febr. factus est Argyrus Barensis, Princeps, et Dux Italiae.

and the Caesar, his grandson named Michael, was elevated Emperor; and in the month of February Argyrus of Bari was made Prince and Duke of Italy.

Et mense Aprilis descendit Maniachus Magister Tarentum, et mense Iunij Monopolim abijtq; ad Civitatem Materam, et fecit ibi grande homicidium, et mense Septembris Gulielmus electus est Comes Materae; et hoc anno depositus est praedictus Caesar Michael a Regno, et excaecatus est, Zoes, et Theodorae sororum iussione, et Constantinus Monomachus factus est Imperator, et 3 die mense Iulij capta est Iuvenaties ab Argyro Duce, et mense Augusti ivit praedictus Argyrus ad obsidionem Trani, seditque super eam mense uno

And in the month of April Maniachus the Magister descended to Tarentum, and in the month of June he departed to Monopoli and went to the city of Matera, and there he committed a great massacre; and in the month of September William was elected Count of Matera; and in this year the aforesaid Caesar Michael was deposed from the realm and was blinded, by the order of the sisters Zoe and Theodora, and Constantine Monomachus was made Emperor, and on the 3 day of the month of July Iuvenaties was captured by Duke Argyrus, and in the month of August the aforesaid Argyrus went to the siege of Trani, and he sat over it for one month.

Anno 1043. reversa est Civitas Barum in manus Imp. et mense Septembris descendit Pardus Patricius cum multo auro, quem Maniaches fecit occidi, seque Imp.

In the year 1043 the City of Bari returned into the hands of the Emperor, and in the month of September Pardus the Patrician came down with much gold, whom Maniaches caused to be killed, and made himself Emperor.

ab omnibus appellari, et mense Octobris venit Barum, minimeque illum recepit. Mense vero Februaij descendit Theodorus Canus Magister, et Catapanus, et Maniaches praedictus perrexit Dyrrachium.

to be called Emperor by all; and in the month of October he came to Bari, and it did not receive him at all. But in the month of February Theodore Canus, Magister and Catapan, came down, and the aforesaid Maniaches proceeded to Dyrrachium.

Anno 1044. Guillelmus filius Tancredi descendit cum Guarimari Principe in Calabriam, feceruntq; ipsum Squillacij Castellum.

In the year 1044, William son of Tancred went down with Prince Guarimar into Calabria, and they built the very Castle of Squillace.

Anno 1046. perrexit Argyrus Patricius Constantinopolim, et Palatinus Catapanus, qui et Eustasius, revocavit omnes exiliatos ad Barum, perrexitque Tarentum, et 8. die in Trano mense Maij commisit proelium cum Normannis, et ceciderunt Graeci, et hoc anno venit Conus Rex Alemannorum Romam, eo quod erant ibi tres Pontifices, Sylvester in Ecclesia S. Petri: in Laterano, Gregorius; et Benedictus in Tusculano, quibus eiectis confirmatus est ibi Papa nomine Clemens a praedicto Imperatore; deinde dictus Imp. venit Beneventum, Beneventani vero ad eius iniuriam absciderunt strenuitas equi eius, hoc etiam anno obijt Guidelmus, et frater eius Drogo factus est Comes.

In the year 1046 Argyrus the Patrician proceeded to Constantinople, and the Palatine Catapan, who is also Eustasius, recalled all the exiles to Bari; and he proceeded to Taranto, and on the 8th day at Trani in the month of May he joined battle with the Normans, and the Greeks fell; and in this year Conrad, King of the Germans, came to Rome, for the reason that there were three Pontiffs there, Sylvester in the Church of St. Peter: in the Lateran, Gregory; and Benedict in Tusculum, who having been cast out, a Pope by the name Clement was confirmed there by the aforesaid Emperor; thereafter the said Emperor came to Benevento, but the Beneventans, as an affront to him, hamstrung his horse; in this same year William died, and his brother Drogo was made Count.

Anno 1047. apprehensum est oppidum Scyra a Guarangis mense Octobris, et mense Decembris depopulaverunt Litium, et mense Iunij dictus Papa Benedictus per poculum, veneno occidit Papam Clementem.

In the year 1047, the town Scyra was apprehended by the Guarangis in the month of October, and in the month of December they depopulated Litium, and in the month of June the said Pope Benedict, by a cup, with poison, killed Pope Clement.

Anno 1050. Indict. 3. obijt Zoe Imp.

Year 1050. Indict. 3. Empress Zoe died.

soror Theodorae, quae fuerunt filiae Constantini Imp. Zoe enim habuit viros tres, primum Romanum, secundum Michaelem, tertium Constantinum Monomachum. regnavit cum his tribus viris ann.

sister of Theodora, who were daughters of Constantine the Emperor. For Zoe had three husbands, the first Romanus, the second Michael, the third Constantine Monomachus. she reigned with these three husbands years.

22. Post mortem vero praedictae Zoes regnavit ispe Constantinus Imperator cum Theodora sua cognata iam novem annis.

22. After the death indeed of the aforesaid Zoe, the Emperor Constantine himself reigned together with Theodora, his kinswoman, for already nine years.

Anno 1051. Descendit Argyrus Magister Vesti, et Dux Italiae filius Meli mense Martij, et abijt Barum, et non receperunt illum Adralistus, ac Romoaldus cum Petro eius germano; sed non post multum temporis Barenses receperunt eum fine voluntate Adralisti, et aliorum. Sed Adralistus fugit.

In the year 1051. Argyrus, Master of the Wardrobe and Duke of Italy, son of Melus, descended in the month of March, and went away to Bari, and Adralistus and Romoaldus with Peter, his brother, did not receive him; but not long after, the people of Bari received him without the will of Adralistus and of the others. But Adralistus fled.

Romoaldus vero, et Petrus fratres ad Argyro sunt com prehensi, et catenis vincti Constantinopolim deportati sunt. Hoc anno Drogo occisus est in Monte Ilari a suo compatre, et frater eius Umfredus factus est Comes.

But Romoaldus and Peter, brothers, were apprehended by Argyrus, and, bound with chains, were deported to Constantinople. In this year Drogo was slain on Mount Ilario by his compater (godfather), and his brother Humphrey was made Count.

Anno 1053. in fer. 6. mense Iunij, Normanni fecerunt bellum cum Alemannis, quos Papa Leo adduxerat, et vicerunt, et fuit hoc anno magna fames in Italia.

Year 1053. on Friday, in the month of June, the Normans made war with the Alemans, whom Pope Leo had brought, and they conquered, and in this year there was a great famine in Italy.

Anno 1054. obiit Sico Protospata Materiensis.

In the year 1054. Sico Protospata of Matera died.

Anno 1055. obiit Constantinus Imperator, qui et Monomachus.

In the year 1055. Emperor Constantine, also called Monomachus, died.

Anno 1056. coepit regnare Regina praedicta. Theodora Augusta soror Zoes Imperatricis.

In the year 1056. the aforesaid Queen began to reign. Theodora Augusta, sister of Empress Zoe.

Et Umfreda obiit, et Robertus frater eius factus est Dux, et obiit Petrus Archìepiscopus Consentiae.

And Humphrey died, and Robert his brother was made Duke, and Peter, Archbishop of Consentia, died.

Anno 1057. mortua est Theodora Augusta, et Michael Bringa factus est Imperator.

In the year 1057. Theodora Augusta died, and Michael Bringa was made Emperor.

Anno 1058. Tromby Patricius fecit occidere Scribonem in Civitate Cotroni.

In the year 1058. Tromby the Patrician had Scribon killed in the City of Cotrone.

Anno 1059. Mortuus est Bringa Imp. et Isachius Oconnus factus est Imperator.

In the year 1059. Bringa the Emperor died, and Isaac Oconnus was made Emperor.

Anno 1060. elevatus est Imperator Constantinus Ducas.

In the year 1060. Emperor Constantine Ducas was elevated.

Anno 1061. Robertus Dux caepit Civitatem Acheruntiam.

In the year 1061. Duke Robert captured the City Acheruntia.

Anno 1062. factus est Papa Alexander Lucanus, et Robertus intravit Dux in Civitatem Oriae, et iterum apprehendit Brundusium, et ipsum Miriarcham.

In the year 1062, Alexander the Lucanian was made Pope, and Robert the Duke entered into the City of Oria, and again seized Brundusium, and the Miriarch himself.

Anno 1063. comprehensa est Civitas Tarenti a Normannis.

In the year 1063. the City of Tarentum was seized by the Normans.

Anno 1064. comprehensa est Matera a Roberto Comite mense Aprilis.

In the year 1064. Matera was seized by Count Robert in the month of April.

Anno 1065. Robertus Dux intravit Siciliam, et interfecit Agarenorum multitudinem, et tulit obsidionem ex Civitate Panormo.

In the year 1065. Duke Robert entered Sicily, and killed a multitude of the Agarenes, and lifted the siege from the City of Palermo.

Anno 1066. Loffredus Comes filius Petronii voluit ire in Romaniam cum multa gente, sed obstetit illi quidam ductor Graecorum nomine Mabrica, et Princeps Richardus intravit Terram Campaniae, obseditque Ciparanum, et comprehendit eum, et devastando usque Romam pervenit.

In the year 1066. Count Loffredus, son of Petronius, wished to go into Romania with a great multitude, but a certain leader of the Greeks by the name Mabrica opposed him, and Prince Richard entered the Land of Campania, besieged Ciparanum, and captured it, and by devastating reached as far as Rome.

Anno 1067. mense Maii mortuus est Constantinus Ducas Imp. et Michael filius eius suscepit Imperium, et apparuit stella cometa, et Comes Normanniae Robertus fecit bellum cum Arnaldo Rege Anglorum, et vicit Robertus, qui et factus est Rex super gentem Anglorum.

Year 1067. In the month of May Constantine Doukas, the Emperor, died, and Michael his son assumed the Empire, and a comet-star appeared, and Robert, Count of Normandy, made war with Arnald, King of the English, and Robert conquered, who also was made king over the nation of the English.

Anno 1068. 16. Februarii Robertus Dux obsedit Civitatem Montispilosi, ubi nihil prosiciens cum paucis abiit Obbianum, et recepit eam, et traditione cuiusdam Gottofredi intravit ipse Dux in dictam Civitatem Montispilosi.

In the year 1068. 16. February Robert the Duke besieged the City of Montispilosi, where, achieving nothing, with a few he went away to Obbianum, and he took it, and by the treachery of a certain Gottofredus the Duke himself entered into the said City of Montispilosi.

Anno 1069. mense Septembris praedictus Dux obsedit Barum, et Romanus Diogenes, qui cum praedicto Michaele privigno suo tenebat Imperium, fraude praedicti Michaelis privigni sui apud quandam Civitatem Armeniae comprehensus, et caecatus est.

In the year 1069, in the month of September, the aforesaid Duke besieged Bari, and Romanus Diogenes, who with the aforesaid Michael his stepson held the Empire, by the fraud of the aforesaid Michael his stepson, at a certain city of Armenia was apprehended and was blinded.

Anno 1070. mense Ianuarij magnum homicidiun actum est Brundusii, nam Normanni volentes eam comprehendere, tenti sunt ex eis quadraginta cum aliis eorum ministris quadraginta tribus, et capita omnium praedictorum ad Imperatorem portata sunt.

In the year 1070. in the month of January a great homicide was carried out at Brundusium, for, the Normans wishing to seize it, forty of them were detained together with forty-three of their attendants, and the heads of all the aforesaid were carried to the Emperor.

Anno 1071. Robertus Dux intravit Brundusiopolim, dimissa ante Barum obsidione, nam ipse Dux fecit fieri pontem in mari, quantus concluderet portum praedictum Urbis Bari; Hoc etiam anno dolo cuiusdam Argirichi filii Ioannazzi occisus est Bysantius cognomento Guinderlichus in Baro, et 15. die Aprilis cepit Robertus Dux Civitatem Bari, et mense Iulii Dux praedictus transmeavit Adriatici maris pelagum, perrexitque Siciliam cum 58. navibus.

In the year 1071. Duke Robert entered Brundusium, the siege previously laid before Bari having been abandoned; for the Duke himself had caused a bridge to be made in the sea, such as to enclose the aforesaid port of the City of Bari; In this same year, by the treachery of a certain Argirichus, son of Ioannazzus, Byzantius, surnamed Guinderlichus, was slain at Bari, and on the 15. day of April Duke Robert took the City of Bari, and in the month of July the aforesaid Duke crossed the main of the Adriatic Sea, and went on to Sicily with 58. ships.

Anno 1072. mense Iunii die 10. intravit Robertus Dux Panormum in Sicilia.

In the year 1072, in the month of June, on the 10th day, Robert the Duke entered Panormus in Sicily.

Anno 1073. intraverunt primo Normanni in Trano in octava Epiphaniae cum Petrono Comite, sed Robertus Dux, eiecto Petrono, introivit in eam ipse Civitatem in Purificatione Sanctae Mariae.

In the year 1073. the Normans first entered Trani on the Octave of the Epiphany with Count Petronus, but Duke Robert, having expelled Petronus, himself entered that City on the Purification of Saint Mary.

Anno 1076. comprehensus est quidam nepos Africani Regis a Rogerio fratre Ducis, qui praeerat Siciliae cum 150. navibus in Civitate Mazaria et dedit praedictus Dux filiam suam, nurum ad Imperatorem Constantinopolitanum.

In the year 1076. a certain grandson of the African King was apprehended by Roger, the brother of the Duke, who was presiding over Sicily, with 150. ships, in the City of Mazaria, and the aforesaid Duke gave his daughter, as a daughter-in-law, to the Constantinopolitan Emperor.

Anno 1077. obsessa est Civitas Salerni a Roberto Duce Normanno, et comprehensa est ab eo.

In the year 1077, the City of Salerno was besieged by Robert the Norman Duke, and was captured by him.

Anno 1078. Indict. I. obsessa est Neapolis a Richardo Principe, et minime comprehensa: et Robertus Dux obsedit Beneventum, sed eius obsedio dissipata est a Rodulpho Pipino Comite, et hoc anno obiit praedictus Richardus Princeps.

In the year 1078. Indiction 1. Naples was besieged by Richard the Prince, and was by no means taken: and Robert the Duke besieged Benevento, but his siege was dissipated by Count Rudolph Pipin, and in this year the aforesaid Prince Richard died.

Anno 1079. intravit Petronus in Tranum, et Barum rebellavit, eiecto exinde praeside Ducis, et Baialardus filius Umfredae comprehendit Asculum. Et eiectus est Imperator praedictus Michael a Regno, et Botoniates quidam factus est Imperator, qui et abstulit praedicti Michaelis uxorem, et abusus est ea, et fuit hoc anno mortalitas hominum in Matera.

In the year 1079. Petronus entered Trani, and Bari rebelled, the Duke’s praeses having been cast out from there; and Baialardus, son of Humphrey, seized Asculum. And the aforesaid Emperor Michael was cast out from the Kingdom, and a certain Botoniates was made Emperor, who also took away the wife of the aforesaid Michael and abused her; and in this year there was a mortality of men in Matera.

Anno 1080. Inventum est corpus B. Canionis in Acherontia ab Arnaldo Archiepiscopo, et idem Archiepiscopus construere coepit novum Episcopium, idest Ecclesiam Sanctae Dei Matris Mariae. Hoc anno Barum Civitas reversa est in potestatem Roberti Ducis, et idem Dux obsedit Civitatem Tarentum, et mense Aprilis comprehendit eam, et iterum obsedit Castellanetam, et cepit eam.

In the year 1080. the body of Blessed Canion was found in Acherontia by Arnald the Archbishop, and the same Archbishop began to construct a new Episcopium, that is, the Church of the Holy Mother of God Mary. In this year the City of Bari returned into the power of Duke Robert, and the same Duke besieged the City Taranto, and in the month of April seized it, and again besieged Castellaneta, and took it.

Et hoc anno Imperator Michael descendit in Apuliam, quaerendo auxilium a Roberto Duce contra Botaniatem, et mense Iulii 27. die mortuus est Robertus Comes eximius, et eiecti sunt Normanni a Matera secondo, et coepit regnare Loffredus Comes filius eius, prò eo in Matera, in vigilia Sanctae Mariae mense Augusti.

And in this year Emperor Michael descended into Apulia, seeking aid from Robert the Duke against Botaniates, and in the month of July on the 27. day the distinguished Count Robert died, and the Normans were driven out from Matera a second time, and Loffredus the Count, his son, began to reign in his stead in Matera, on the vigil of Saint Mary, in the month of August.

Anno 1081. Robertus Dux intravit Tricharim mense Octobris, et eodem mense Archirizi perrexit ad Michaelem Regem Sclavorum, deditque eius filio eius filiam in uxorem, et Robertus Dux cum praedicto Michaele Imp. perrexit Hydruntum; missisque antea navibus in Insula Corife, quae apprehenderunt eam, ubi et ipse paululum una cum Imp.

In the year 1081. Duke Robert entered Tricharim in the month of October, and in the same month Archirizi proceeded to Michael, King of the Slavs, and gave to his son his daughter in marriage, and Robert the Duke together with the aforesaid Michael the Emperor proceeded to Hydruntum; and ships having previously been sent to the island of Corife, which seized it, where he too for a little while together with the Emperor.

transfretavit, posueruntque mense Iulii ante Dyrrachium obsidionem per mare, et per terram, quam stolum Veneticorum veniens dissipavit, aperuitque Dyrracenis mare. Hoc anno Botaniates factus est monachus, et Alexius factus est Imp. et Alemannorum Rex Enricus venit Romam, ut eiiceret exinde Papam Gregorium.

he crossed over, and in the month of July they set before Dyrrachium a siege by sea, and by land, which the fleet of the Venetians, coming, scattered, and opened the sea to the Dyrrachians. This year Botaniates became a monk, and Alexius became emperor, and Henry, king of the Germans, came to Rome, to cast out from there Pope Gregory.

Anno 1082, hoc anno complentur ad initio mundi 6281. ab Urbe condita 824. Alexius Imperator collecto grandi exercitu iniit bellum cum Roberto Duce haud longe a Dyrrachio, et terga versus fugit, cecideruntque in ea pugna plusquam 6000.

In the year 1082, in this year 6,281 are completed from the beginning of the world. From the founding of the City, 824. Alexius the Emperor, having gathered a great army, entered into war with Robert the Duke not far from Dyrrachium, and, turning his back, fled, and in that battle more than 6,000 fell.

ex suis, fuerunt autem in eius exercitu 70. mil. hominum, et dominante isto Alexio Imp. Episcopus Rubensis nomine Guislibertus donavit Priori Montispilosi Ecclesiam Sancti Sabini, quae est in Civitate Rubi, qui prior tenebatur omni anno ad quatuor libras cerae in die Sabbati Sancti, et mittere unum hominem equestrem ad suas expensas, quando Episcopus Rubensis ibat ad Barum, seu ad Canusium, et mense Ianuarij Robertus Dux cepit Civitatem Dyrrachium traditione quorumdam Veneticorum: et hoc tempore praedictus Rex Henricus obsedit Romam, ut vi introiret, et faceret ibidem Papam Ravennensem Archiepiscopum, sed minime potuit; et Dux rediens ab Epidauro sub lecto sibi Boamundo filio suo perrexit Romam ferens auxilium Papae Gregorio, cum Rex iam in partibus moraretur Lombardiae, ad debellandam Mathildae Provinciam, quae cum Papa tenebat Gregorio.

of his own men; moreover, in his army there were 70 thousand men; and while this Alexius was ruling as Emperor, the Bishop of Ruvo named Guislibertus donated to the Prior of Montepeloso the Church of Saint Sabinus, which is in the City of Ruvo, which prior was bound every year for four pounds of wax on Holy Saturday, and to send one horseman at his own expense whenever the Bishop of Ruvo went to Bari or to Canosa; and in the month of January Duke Robert seized the City of Dyrrachium by the betrayal of certain Venetians: and at this time the aforesaid King Henry besieged Rome, in order to enter by force and to make there as Pope the Archbishop of Ravenna, but he could by no means; and the Duke, returning from Epidaurus, taking along to himself Bohemond his son, proceeded to Rome bearing aid to Pope Gregory, while the King was already abiding in the parts of Lombardy, to war down the Province of Matilda, who held with Pope Gregory.

Hoc anno Baialardus perrexit ad Constantinopolitanum Imperatorem Alexium causa auxilij; et eo anno die 16. Maij dedicatum est in Matera novum Templum in honore Sancti Eustasij ab Arnaldo Archiepiscopo sub Domino Stephano Abbate auctore ipsius Templi.

In this year Baialardus went to the Constantinopolitan Emperor Alexius for aid; and in that year, on the 16th day of May, a new Temple in Matera was dedicated in honor of Saint Eustasius by Archbishop Arnaldus, under Lord Stephen the Abbot, founder of the Temple itself.

Anno 1083. hoc anno complentur 517. anni, ex quo intraverunt Langobardi in Italiam, et cyclus Solaris 28. et cyclus Lunaris 17. et cyclus novennalis primus, et Epacta Luna.. et hoc tempore Romani a Papae Gregorìj societate discedentes Legatos ad praedictum direxerunt Regem, quo eum Romae mitterent: sed Dux hoc anticipans direxit plusquam triginta millia solidorum Romam, quatenus sibi eos, Papaeque reconciliaret, quod et factum est.

In the year 1083. in this year 517 years are completed since the Lombards entered Italy, and the Solar cycle [is] 28, and the Lunar cycle 17, and the first nine-year cycle, and the Moon’s epact.. and at this time the Romans, departing from the association of Pope Gregory, sent legates to the aforesaid King, that they might bring him to Rome: but the Duke, anticipating this, sent more than thirty thousand solidi to Rome, in order that he might reconcile them to himself and to the Pope, which indeed was done.

Attamen Rex Romam adveniens, cepit totam regionem trans Tyberim, in qua Apostolorum Principis eminet Templum: et mense, Iunij relieto ibidem praesidio suo, ac filio in castello, quod ipse illic statim construxit, ad debellandum Gregorium Papam, qui in Laterano, ac in Caelio monte se continebat, cum quadraginta obsidibus Roma secessit in partes Tusciae; et Dux in mense Maìj posuit ante Cannas Civitatem Apuliae obsidionem, et mense Iulij comprehendit eam.

Nevertheless the King, arriving at Rome, seized all the region across the Tiber, in which the Temple of the Prince of the Apostles stands prominent; and in the month of June, leaving there his own garrison and his son in the castle which he forthwith constructed on the spot, he withdrew from Rome with forty hostages into parts of Tuscany, to war down Pope Gregory, who kept himself in the Lateran and on the Caelian Hill; and the Duke, in the month of May, laid a siege before the City of Cannae of Apulia, and in the month of July captured it.

Anno 1084. Robertus Dux, collecta multitudine Normannorum, Langobardorum, aliarumque gentium, perrexit Romam, ut Papam Gregorium dura obsidione retentum liberaret, quod et factum est; nam Romam adveniens et Urbis maximam partem cepit, et Papam exinde viriliter abstrahens secum devexit Salernum.

In the year 1084. Duke Robert, with a multitude gathered of Normans, Langobards, and other nations, proceeded to Rome, in order to free Pope Gregory, detained by a severe siege, which indeed was done; for, arriving at Rome, he seized the greater part of the City, and, manfully drawing the Pope away from there, conveyed him with himself to Salerno.

Anno 1085. praedictus Dux grandi apparatu navium, hominumque innumerabili exercitu Brundusiopolim veniens, deposita ibidem navali machinatione ingressus est Adriaticum pelagus, perrexitque in Insulam nomine Cassiopim, ubi stolus Veneticorum, et filius Ducis Venetiae cum plurimis navibus erat infestus Duci Roberto: sed bello in mari inter eos confecto, victoria ad Normannos concessit. Caesa sunt in ea pugna plusquam quinq; millia hominum; praeterea naves quinq; captae; et duae cum hominibus submersae sunt, ita ut qui gladium potuere evadere bellatoris, pelagi eos vorago glutiret.

Year 1085. The aforesaid Duke, coming to Brundisiopolis with a grand apparatus of ships and with an innumerable army of men, after establishing there a naval contrivance, entered the Adriatic sea, and proceeded to the island named Cassiope, where the fleet of the Venetians, and the son of the Duke of Venice, with very many ships, was hostile to Duke Robert; but, a war at sea having been fought between them, the victory passed to the Normans. In that battle more than 5 thousand men were cut down; moreover 5 ships were captured; and two, with their men, were sunk, so that those who were able to escape the warrior’s sword were swallowed by the whirlpool of the deep.

Hoc anno mense Maij praedictus Papa Gregorius dum Salerni moraretur, diem clausit extremum, quo moriente tanta fertur grandinum, tonitruumq; extitisse procella, ut omnes illic positi huiusmodi turbinibus putarent interire. Mense Iulij dum iam dictus Dux moraretur in loco, qui dicitur, Veneti victi, a devictis Venetis, exercitusque eius ob quandam Civitatem capiendam in Cephalonia moraretur Insula, ipse autem in praedicto loco cum parte exercitus resideret, praeparans se qualiter cum grandi apparatu navium, et militum innumera multitudine ad Regiam tenderet navigio Civitatem, iussu misericordiosissimi, et Omnipotentis Dei, qui dissipat, ac reprobat cogitationes, vel consilia Principum, non ex suo procedentia, profluvio ventris extinctus est.

In this year, in the month of May, the aforesaid Pope Gregory, while he was staying at Salerno, closed his last day; at his dying so great a storm of hail and thunder is said to have arisen that all placed there thought they would perish by whirlwinds of this sort. In the month of July, while the already-mentioned Duke was staying in a place which is called “The Venetians Conquered,” by the conquered Venetians, and his army was staying on the Island Cephalonia for the taking of a certain City, but he himself remained in the aforesaid place with part of the army, preparing himself how, with a grand apparatus of ships and an innumerable multitude of soldiers, he might make for the Royal City by ship, by the command of the most merciful and Omnipotent God, who scatters and reproves the thoughts or counsels of princes not proceeding from Himself, he was extinguished by a flux of the belly.

Anno 1086. Rogerius filius praedicti Roberti Ducis factus est Dux.

In the year 1086, Roger, son of the aforesaid Duke Robert, was made Duke.

Anno 1087. mense Maij corpus Beatissimi Nicolai Mirensis Archiepiscopi a quibusdam Barensibus a praedicta Mirea ablatum, in Barum devectum, caput Civitatum Apuliae. Hoc anno Abbas Desiderius Sancti Benedicti montis Cassini, consensu quorumdam Nobilium Romanorum factus est Papa Romanus, vivente adhuc Clemente Antipapa, qui fuerat Ravennae Episcopus.

In the year 1087, in the month of May, the body of the most Blessed Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra, having been taken away from the aforesaid Myra by certain men of Bari, was conveyed to Bari, the capital of the cities of Apulia. This year Abbot Desiderius of Saint Benedict of Mount Cassino, with the consent of certain Roman nobles, was made Roman Pope, while the Antipope Clement was still living, who had been Bishop of Ravenna.

Anno 1088. mense Septembris factus est grandis terremotus per totani Apuliam, ita ut in quibusdam locis turres, ac domos ruisse feratur; tunc enim coepta est guerra inter Rogerium Ducem, et Boamundum fratrem eius, hoc anno comprehensa est Syracusa, Siciliae quondam caput, a Rogerio Comite, in qua fertur homines comesos, et infantes, ob diuturnitatem obsidionis.

In the year 1088. in the month of September a great earthquake occurred throughout all Apulia, such that in certain places towers and houses are reported to have collapsed; then indeed war was begun between Duke Roger and his brother Bohemond, this year Syracuse, once the capital of Sicily, was taken by Count Roger, in which it is reported that men were eaten, and infants, on account of the long duration of the siege.

Anno 1089. facta est Synodus omnium Apuliensium, Calabrorum, ac Brutiorum Episcoporum in Civitate Melfiae, ubi affuit etiam Dux Rogerius cum universis Comitibus Apuliae, ac Calabriae, et aliarum Provinciarum, in qua statutum est, ut Sancta Trevia retineretur ab omnibus subiectis. Hoc anno obijt Ursus Barensis Archiepiscopus, et Papa Urbanus nomine, venit in Civitatem Barum, et consecravit illic confessionem Sancti Nicolai, et Heliam Archiepiscopum, vivente adhuc praedicto Antipapa Clemente, et consecravit Brundusinam Ecclesiam praedictus Papa Urbanus.

Year 1089. A synod of all the bishops of the Apulians, Calabrians, and Bruttians was held in the City of Melfi, where Duke Roger was also present with all the Counts of Apulia and Calabria and of the other provinces, in which it was decreed that the Holy Truce be retained by all subjects. This year Ursus, Archbishop of Bari, died, and Pope Urban by name came into the City of Bari and there consecrated the confessio of Saint Nicholas, and Elias as Archbishop, while the aforesaid Antipope Clement was still living, and the aforesaid Pope Urban consecrated the Brundusian Church.

Anno 1090. mense Augusti Acherontia admirandum in modum cremata est a se ipsa, et mortuus est Iordanus Princeps.

In the year 1090. in the month of August, Acherontia was burned in an astonishing manner by itself, and Jordan the Prince died.

Anno 1091. iurata est a Normannis Trevia Dei. Cod.

In the year 1091, the Truce of God was sworn by the Normans. Cod.

Andr. Et finiunt ad O.C. anni 6291. Epacta 19.

Andr. And they end at year 6,291 from the Founding of the World (O.C.). Epact 19.

Anno 1092. cum obsideretur Ories Civitas a Boamundo auxilio quorumdam, Orietani obsidionem dissipaverunt, et ipso Boamundo fugam petente, cunctum eius apparatum, et signa ceperunt.

In the year 1092. when the city of Ories was being besieged by Bohemond with the aid of certain men, the Orietani dissipated the siege, and, with Bohemond himself taking to flight, they seized all his equipment and standards.

Anno 1093. Indict. prima obijt Eugenia Abbatissa Sancti Benedicti Monasterij Materiensis mense Octobris, et eodem mense Urbanus Papa (a) venit in Materam, et applicuit ad coenobium Sancti Eustachij cum grandi plebe hominum.

In the year 1093. In the First Indiction, Eugenia, Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Benedict of Matera, died in the month of October, and in the same month Pope Urban (a) came to Matera and made his way to the coenobium of Saint Eustace with a great multitude of people.

Anno 1095. mense Aprilis in nocte diei 4. subito visi sunt igniculi cadere de coelo. quasi stellae per totam Apuliam, qui repleverunt universam superficiem terrae, et ex tunc coeperunt Galliae populi, imo totius Italiae pergere ad sepulchrum Domini cum armis ferentes in humero dextro Crucis signum.

In the year 1095. in the month of April, in the night of the day 4. suddenly little fire-sparks were seen to fall from heaven. as if stars throughout all Apulia, which filled the entire surface of the earth; and from then the peoples of Gaul, nay of all Italy, began to proceed to the sepulchre of the Lord, with arms, bearing on the right shoulder the sign of the Cross.

Anno 1096. Rogerius Comes Siciliae cum 20. mil. Sarracenorum, et cum innumera multitudine aliarum gentium, et universi Comites Apuliae obsederunt Amalphim, et cum ibi perseverarent, subito inspiratione Dei Boamundus cum alijs Comitibus, et plusquam 500.

In the year 1096. Roger, Count of Sicily, with 20 thousand Saracens, and with an innumerable multitude of other nations, and all the Counts of Apulia, besieged Amalfi; and when they persevered there, suddenly by God’s inspiration Bohemond with other counts, and more than 500.

Equitibus facientibus sibi signum Crucis super panno in humero dextro reliquerunt obsidionem, et transfretantes perrexerunt in Regiam Urbem, quatenus cum Alexij Imp. auxilio bellando cum paganis, pergerent Hierusalem ad Sanctum Sepulchrum nostri Redemptoris.

The knights, making for themselves the sign of the Cross upon a cloth on the right shoulder, left the siege; and, crossing over, they went on to the Royal City, so that, with the aid of Alexius the Emperor, warring against the pagans, they might proceed to Jerusalem to the Holy Sepulchre of our Redeemer.

Anno 1097. Boamundus cum Comite Sancti Egidij, et cum Comite Normanniae, et alijs Comitibus Occidentis cum innumera multitudine mense Aprilis a Regia Urbe se moventes transfretaverunt, et ceperunt omnem terram, quam Turchi Impp. abstulerant, et facto bello cum Turchis, victoriam Christus suis concessit Christianis.

In the year 1097, Bohemond with the Count of Saint-Gilles, and with the Count of Normandy, and with other Counts of the West, with an innumerable multitude, setting out from the Royal City in the month of April crossed over, and they seized all the land which the Turks had taken away, and, battle having been joined with the Turks, Christ granted victory to his Christians.

fertur enim fuisse Paganos 150. mil. Hoc actum est circa Niceam Civitatem.

for it is reported that there were 150,000 pagans. This took place around the City of Nicaea.

Anno 1098. mense Octobris apparuit stella Cometes, et Christiani bellando venerunt usq; Antiochiam, et obsederunt eam, et mense Aprilis comprehendentes interfecerunt ibi plusquam 60. mil. hominum, iterumque commissa pugna Christiani vicerunt, et ceperunt multa spolia Turcorum.

In the year 1098, in the month of October, a Comet star appeared, and the Christians, warring, came as far as Antioch and besieged it, and in the month of April, taking it, they killed there more than 60,000 men, and again, a battle having been joined, the Christians conquered, and took many spoils of the Turks.

Et hoc anno comprehensa est Capua a Rogerio Comite mense Marti j.

And in this year Capua was taken by Count Roger, in the month of March, on the 1st.

Anno 1099. mense Octobris Papa Urbanus congregavit universam Synodum in Civitate Bari, in qua fuerunt 185. Episcopi, et mense Iunij in festivitate S. Petri Apostoli comprehensa est Hierusalem Civitas a Christianis, et omnes, quos ibi invenerunt, occiderunt.

In the year 1099, in the month of October, Pope Urban convened the whole Synod in the City of Bari, in which there were 185. bishops, and in the month of June, on the feast of St. Peter the Apostle, the City of Jerusalem was captured by the Christians, and they killed all whom they found there.

Fertur autem occisa ibi esse 200. mil. hominum, et tunc levaverunt sibi Christiani Regem Gottofridum, qui fuerat (a) Suevorum Dux, et mense Iulij praedictus Papa Urbanus obijt, et electus est Paschalis Papa.

It is reported, moreover, that 200,000 men were slain there; and then the Christians raised up for themselves King Godfrey, who had been the Duke of the Suevi (a); and in the month of July the aforesaid Pope Urban died, and Pope Paschal was elected.

Anno 1100. Mortuus est Gottofridus praedictus ad Urso egrediens a saltu, quem antea ipse fortiter ferierat.

In the year 1100, the aforesaid Godfrey died, at the Bear, coming out from the thicket, whom he himself had previously struck bravely.

Anno 1101. comprehensa est Caesarea a Christianis, et ad solum usque perducta, et mense Septembris mortuus est Goffridus Comes, et (b)Alexander filius eius intravit Materam, et incoeperunt habitari a Montensibus. Hoc anno obijt Arnaldus Archiepiscopus Acherontinus, et Rogerius Comes Siciliae mense Iulij.

In the year 1101. Caesarea was seized by the Christians and brought down to the very ground, and in the month of September Count Geoffrey died, and (b)Alexander his son entered Matera, and it began to be inhabited by the Montensians. This year Arnaldus, Archbishop of Acerenza, died, and Roger, Count of Sicily, in the month of July.

Anno 1102. Indict. 10. mense Novembris obijt Stephanus Abbas Materiensis, et Simeom Abbas successit ei, mense Maij electus est Petrus Acherontinus Archiepiscopus.

In the year 1102. Indiction 10. in the month of November Stephen, Abbot of Matera, died, and Simeon the Abbot succeeded him, in the month of May Peter, the Acherontine Archbishop, was elected.