Men of King Henry IV. beat and kick priests, desecrate nearly 100 Churches with feces and blood, rape and kill women, shearing the heads of others and enslaving them.
war/military campaign plunder religious sexual murder
Motivation :
sexual economical religious
Application :
beating trampling down rape poisoning
Weapon :
bare hands/no weapons animals
Long-Term Consequence :
destruction/devastation revenge
Original Text :
sacerdotes sacris vestibus indutos, seminudos et miserrime vapulatos proculcaverant; altaria sanctorum reliquiis inde ablatis destruxerant; super ea, quod a paganis inauditum est, cacaverant, carnibus predae infrusta dilaniatis superimpositis ea cruentaverant; mulieres quas in aecclesiis ceperant, impudenter illic velut in prostibulo constupraverant; stabulum equis et animalibus suis, nec non latrinas in eis erexerant. Mulieres item ad usque mortem constuprando nonnullas oppresserant; plerasque viriliter tonsuratas ac vestitas, captivas abduxerant. Ligneam Christi crucifixi imaginem apud Altorf, et alibi etiam, capite, manibus et pedibus detruncaverant abscisis. Quid plura? Omne sacrum et divinum temerantes, plus quam ethnica insania omnifaria polluerant. Haec quidem omnia episcoporum, qui simul cum eis aecclesias Dei invaserant, data licentia fiebant. Fiebat autem haec detestabilis sanctae aecclesiae conculcatio et desolatio circa festivitatem omnium sanctorum. Tunc quoque parum minus quam centum ecclesiae in illa expeditione violatae sunt.
Translation :
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Edition :
I. S. Robinson: Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken (FSGA 14), Darmstadt, 20-277.
Remark :
long-term consequence: Some of the Swabian nobles take revenge on those they can find, described in: "Swabian Nobles capture, rob and kill men from the army of King Henry IV., mutilating many of them by cutting off their noses, as punishment for plundering Swabian lands."
