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

1525

omnia extrema minitantem, sese conventum pro libito suo armatos facturos rebusque regni aliter consulturos. Scribunt decimas, quae praelatis ecclesiarum debebantur, eos suspendisse (hoc enim vocabulo scribitur), atque ad fines a Turea tutandos expensuros.5 Velle omnino, ut orator caesaris6 et Venetorum7 abeat cum omnibus Alemannis, 25 qui in aula regia vel reginali versantur. Factam esse praedam de ludaica tota et de domo etiam cuiusdam servitoris reginae praedivitis superioribus annis facti ex Iudeo Christiani.8

Venerant iam oratores Bohemorum pro conclusione unionis, tractabatur hoc negotium.9

Apud regem Poloniae intelligimus esse oratores Tureae duos pacem ab eo et medio eius a rege Hungáriáé petentes; de rege Poloniae nullum dubium est eum pacem cum 30 Turea initurum, de rege nostro nihil adhuc habemus certi. Quamvis vix possim mihi persuadere eum idem, quod patruus fecerit, non facturum. Quid enim aliud agat destitutus ab omnibus, et nunc rege etiam patruo et vicino, in quo solo post Deum et Sacrosanctam Sedem spem ponebat, in hanc pacem concedente.10

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Sigismund I to István Brodarics [Cracow], [12 June 1525]1

Manuscript used: BN T. 28. fol. 14.tr.1 2 Published: Acta Tomiciana VII. 290.

I. He was pleased to hear that Brodarics is also sent to the Emperor with Salviati. He asks Brodarics to present the case of the Duchy of Bari to Charles. He was deprived of it without explanation, even though it

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5 Demands of noblemen included allotment of tenths to the maintenance of border fortresses, but no decision was made due to the protests. It is true that high priests could not get the tenths due before. Compare: Kubinyi, A magvar állam belpolitikai... 90.

6 Imperial envoy Hans Schneidpfick.

7 Envoy of Venice Vicenzo Guidoto left Hungary on 25 July 1525 in accordance to the decree of the national assembly. Compare: Balogh István, Velenczei diplomaták Magyarországról fi500-1526), Szeged, 1929, LXIX.

s The house of Royal Vice-Treasurer Imre Szerencsés was burned down by the incited crowd.

9 Reference to the legation sent to Buda in May 1525 in connection to the negotiations between the Utraquistas and the Catholics. Its leaders were Duke Karel Miinsterbersky, Lew Zdenko, and Jan Pasek. Louis II. received the legation on 21 May in the presence of Legate Campeggio and Nuncio Burgio. Compare: Fraknói Vilmos, Magyarország a mohácsi vész előtt, Budapest, 1884, 92.

10 Hungary, the target of campaign of the Sultan in the following year, was not included in the peace pact between Poland and Turkey signed in November 1525 in spite of Sigismund’s request. Brodarics regretted this in his letter to Cracow written on 6 September 1526, after the Mohács defeat.

1 Brodarics, in his letter on 4 July, mentions a letter received from Sigismund dated 12 June.

2 Further manuscripts: BK.213 fol. 531-532; BOss 177 fol. 313v—3 14r; Libri Legationum vol. XXIII. fol. 372; BJ 6557 fol. I05v-I06r; BCzart TN 37. fol. 799-800.

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