Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)

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scopum Vratislaviensem,4 nunc etiam ad illos et alios, ad quos cupit Vestra Dominatio Reverendissima, scribam.5

Interea felicem et incolumem esse Dominationem Vestram Reverendissimam vehementer opto, eidemque me ex animo commendo, is Datum ex Bolechovice die XXI. lunii anno Domini [1529]

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János Szapolyai to Antonio Rincon' and István Brodarics Csanád, 28 July 1529

Manuscript used: ELTE EK., Collectio Caprinaiana B, Tom. XXV11. 279.1 2

/. He received news today that János Szenesen captured Péter Pet ényi with his wife, son and all his treasures on the estate of György Raydaczi, who was killed; Percnyi, his wife und son are kept in the Castle of Dobraköz which belongs to Szenesen. - 2. He is on his wav to the Sultan s camp; he orders Brodarics and Rincon to stay in Várad until further instructions; they should forward his present letter to Luski.

Ioannes Dei gratia rex Hungáriáé, Dalmatiae, Croatiae etc. Magnifice Amice, et Reverendissime Fidelis nobis Dilecte.

[1.] Hodie venit ad nos nuntius affinis nostri, Ioannis Zerechen,3 qui retulit Petrum Perenni proditorem nostri et Sacrae Coronae nostrae captum per ipsum loannem

4 proditorem correxi ex: prodotorem

4 Jacob von Salza (1481 — 1539) Bishop of Boroszló (1520-1539). More on his life: AUgemeine Deutsche Biographic, Band 13 (1881), 538-540.

5 1 have found no further data on the issue concerning Jews referred to here. It is true that a letter by Tomicki to High Chancellor Bernhard Cles (see AT X., 412.) survived from 3 October 1528 in which he asks for safe conduct to Germany from Ferdinand for a Jewish physician by the name of Mózes, but the distance in time is big, it is hardly the same case. No other letter by Tomicki survived from either 1528 or 1529 to Cles or Slaza on any matter regarding Jews.

1 Antonio Rincon, legate of Xing of France Francis I, had talks with Szapolyai already in 1522. He visited the Voivod in Transylvania and offered some vague alliance which Szapolyai rejected. See Bakta Gábor. Illúziók esztendeje, Történelmi Szemle, 1977, 18-19. He showed up again in the court of Szapolyai - King then - in September 1527 in order to convince him to join the League of Cognac. This time he was successful. More on his life: Victor Louis Boukillv, Les diplomats de Francois I": Antonio Rincon et la politique orientale de Franyois F' (1522-1541), Revue Historique, 1913, 64-83, 268-308.

2 According to Kaprinai’s entry, letters by the Legate come from the Town Archives of Kassa. This letter was Nr 1373 in Kaprinai’s time.

■' János Mesztegnyői Szerecsen (?- 1532), Royal Chamberlain, later Secretary, member of the „Kalandos Társaság” [Adventurous Alliance], Comes of Tolna county from 1525 till his death. Administrator at the bishopric of Pécs from 1526. It is unclear in what way he was a relative of Szapolyai. See BtrrilLliN Farkas, Erdély története I., Budapest, 2000, 114., and Kuuinyi András, A Szapolyaiak és familiárisaik... 229.

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