Istvánovits Eszter (szerk.): A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2013)
Helytörténet - Mohácsi Endre: "Fiat piscis!" - "Fiat pax!" Adalékok Forgách Zsigmond 1611. évi erdélyi hadjáratának utótörténetéhez
Mohácsi Endre Fiat Piscis! Fiat Pax! Some data on the consequences of the Transylvanian campaign of Zsigmond Forgach in l6ll Election of Gábor (Gabriel) Báthory as the prince of Transylvania in 1609 provoked serious repugnance from a part of nobility. There were members of the elite whose preference would had been Bálint Homonnai Drugeth, named by István Bocskai as his successor, who would continue the old way of ruling Transylvania. The young magnate who was brought up as Catholic, promised to rule Transylvania according to his religion - peacefully. When he decided to seize the throne of Wallachia and occupied it with his troops in December 1610, he drew on to himself the anger of both the royal court in Vienna and the Ottoman government. Self-assured revenge campaign of the Hungarian forces against Báthory and his army started in July 1611. In the course of the campaign, troops of Zsigmond Forgách and András Dóczy were forced to flee. The army leaving Transylvania at Törcsvár in a hurry lost its way for several times and suffered of starvation in the hardly passable alps. After that a gossiping spread according to which the people of Zsigmond Forgách ate even their horses just to save themselves. It was then that their army chaplain said his famous words: “Fiat Piscis”, that is to say, “Let it be fish”, when on Friday, a fish-day they had no choice but to eat horse meat. Endre Mohácsi Jósa András Museum H-4401 Nyíregyháza Pf. 57 e-mail: mohacsiendre@gmail.com 282
