This year Leo the Holy Pope of Rome died. And this year there was a great murrain amongst the cattle, such as men remembered not for many winters before. And Victor was chosen Pope.
“Battle of Mortemer.”[BF]
1055.
This year Earl Siward died. And a meeting of all the Witan was appointed seven days before Mid-Lent. And there Earl Ælfgar was outlawed, for he was accused as a traitor to his King and all the nation, and he was convicted before the King and all who were there assembled, though the sentence grieved him sorely.—And the King gave the Earldom which Siward had held to Tostig the son of Earl Godwin.—And Earl Ælfgar went to the castle of Griffin in North Wales; and the same year Griffin and Ælfgar burned St. Æthelbryht’s monastery and the whole town of Hereford.
1056.
“This year Henry Emperor of the Romans died, and was succeeded by his son Henry.”
1057.
This year Prince Edward the son of King Edmund came to this land, and he died soon afterwards, and his body is buried in St. Paul’s monastery at London. And Pope Victor died, and Stephen Abbot of Monte-Cassino was chosen as his successor. And Earl Leofric died, and his son Ælfgar succeeded to his father’s Earldom.
1058.
This year Stephen died, and Benedict was consecrated Pope: the same sent hither a pall to Archbishop Stigand. And this year Heaca Bishop of the South Saxons died; and Archbishop Stigand consecrated Ægelric a monk of Christ Church to that Bishoprick, and the Abbot Siward to that of Rochester.