David hanged at Shrewsbury
Yonge’s Flores historiarum reports that David, brother of prince Llewellyn, was dragged through Shrewsbury and then hanged.
What this does and does not establish
Yonge’s 1853 English translation, vol. II. The supplied transcription renders Shrewsbury as 'Shrewsb9ry' and 'dragged' as 'idra^ed'. This occurrence has no internal day or month; its year rests on the explicit annual incipit. The annalist’s hostile characterizations are not adopted.
- Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- A.D. 1283; day and month unspecified
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read flores.txt lines 23060–23249. The governing annual incipit is 'A.]>. 1283' at line 23148; David is identified at lines 23149–23150. An internal chronological check is the feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle at lines 23181–23183, followed by the vigil of the Circumcision at line 23185. These dates belong to later occurrences, not to David’s execution. The next annual incipit is line 23201. Lines 23124 and 23174 are running headers; neither begins a new annual entry. The execution is assigned only to Julian AD 1283, without importing an exact execution date. Original quotation begins at line 23157, character 1395152.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Flores historiarum, St Albans and Westminster tradition
Medieval compilers at St Albans and Westminster; English translation by C. D. Yonge (1812–1891)
Published English translation, as quoted
he was idra^ed at the tail of a horse through the
town of Shrewsb9ry, and then hangedPlain reading of the quoted text, prepared by AI; the quoted wording governs
He was dragged at the tail of a horse through the town of Shrewsbury, and then hanged.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Flores historiarum, C. D. Yonge, trans., vol. II (London, 1853); OCR of the public-domain translation.
Exact source version
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