Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1524
34 Manuscript used: ASV, Principi, vol. 2. fol. 233r-v, 237v. Published: Theiner Augustin, Vetera monumenta historica Hungáriám sacram illustrantia II., Romae, I860, 639. I. King Louis sent him to Vienna to meet papal legate Campeggio and inform the latter about matters in Hungary and Bohemia. - 2. He assures the Pope that he and Chancellor Szálkái are both loyal to him. - 3. The Hungarians like Baron Burgio as if he was not from Sicily but Transylvania. - 4. Archduke Ferdinand is ready to protect Christianity at the cost of his life. István Brodarics to Clement VII Vienna, 21 August 1524 Beatissime Pater ac Domine, Domine mihi semper Clementissime. Post oscula pedum Sanctitatis Vestrae beatorum et meae perpetuae servitutis in gratiam eiusdem humillimam commendationem. [1.] Miserat me his diebus1 serenissimus dominus meus, rex Hungáriáé huc ad 5 reverendissimum dominum cardinalem Campeium1 2 Vestrae Sanctitatis legatum, tum officii ac visitationis gratia, tum ut eum de rebus omnibus, quae tam in Hungária quam in Bohemia agerentur, faceret certiorem. Cum igitur nihil penitus sit, quod cum eius reverendissima dominatione non liberrime ac sinceriter communicaverim, Vestra Sanctitas omnia, quae a me scribi deberent, ex litteris eiusdem intelliget. De quo ipso io id vere scribere possum, Pater Beatissime ac Domine Clementissime, eum cum tanta omnium istorum principum ac nationum satisfactione ac tanto amore versari, ut nihil addi possit. De quo et hodie serenissimus princeps multa mecum est locutus, ut revera credam et aperte videam eius hic praesentiam his regnis esse admodum salutarem. Undique enim, Beatissime Pater, mirum in modum obruimur, et nisi praesentia reve- 15 rendissimi domini legati, et istorum trium principum3 summa in Sedis Apostolicae ac religionis Christianae auctoritate tuenda constantia adesset, longe in maiora mala decidissemus. 1 Brodarics returned from Rome in July 1524. (Compare: Tiu-inlr Augustin, Vetera monumenta historica Hungáriám sacram illustrantia II., Romae, 1860. 638.) Louis II. informed Ferdinand Habsburg on 14 August 1524 that he had sent Brodarics to Vienna to run some errands. (“Misimus ad Serenitatem Vestram fidelem nostrum, reverendum Stephanum doctorem praepositum Quinqueecclesiensem, secretarium nostrum Serenitati Vestrae nomine nostro nonnulla dicturum. Quam rogamus, velit praefato secretario nostro in dicendis de nobis plenam fidem adhibere.) One day later, on 15 August, Queen Mary also wrote to her brother about Brodarics’ mission in Vienna (Rex dominus et maritus noster carissimus misit ad Serenitatem Vestram hunc fidelem suum et nostrum, venerabilem Stephanum Brodaricum [...] cui nos quoque commisimus nonnulla Vestrae Serenitati nostro nomine referenda.") See MTAKK, Ms 4939, Simancas. bundle I, and Kujáni Gábor, Brodarics István levelezése 1508-1538, Történelmi Tár, 1908, 345-346. 2 Papal Legate Cardinal Campeggio stayed in Hungary and then in Vienna from 18 July 1524. ' Brodarics probably alludes to three rulers most affected by the Turks: King of Hungaiy and Bohemia Louis II, Polish King Sigismund I, and Austrian Archduke Ferdinand. 99
