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

1526

a small army. They all praise the Kings bravery but curse his counsellors. - 7. Tomoris head was presented to the Sultan on a spearhead and was placed in front of the Sultans tent. - 8. In accordance with the news from He rezeg, the Sultan led his army across the Danube, and sent his marauding troops towards Eger and Körmöcbánya in order to destroy everything between the Danube and the Tisza. The Sultan himself proceeds towards Pétervárad along the Danube to spend the winter there or in Nándorfehérvár. Brodarics thinks the Sultan will occupy Slavonia too this winter in order to invade the rest of Hungary next spring. This would be all the easier in a defenceless countiy with no King when Christian riders wrangle among themselves. - 9. A list is given of the lay and church dignitaries who perished. -10. King Louis entered the battle under pressure from his army that expected victory, even though several persons, first of all Brodarics himself, opposed the clash. - II. He lost everything in the camp at Mohács, just as he lost all his possessions left in Buda.

Ex litteris domini cancellarii regni Hungáriáé, datis Posonii III. Octobris, ad illustrem et magnificum dominum palatinum et capitaneum Cracoviensem ac regni Polo- niae summum cancellarium

[ 1.] Nova de caesare Turearum haec sunt: castris in eo loco inter Budam et Thetem,2 5 ubi equorum cursus fieri solet, positis ipse Budam his diebus superioribus intraverat,3 et arce peragrata ac diligenter inspecta, rursus in castra redierat, ubi paucis diebus commoratus ponte super Danubio facto4 exercitum traiecit, et castra, ut intelligimus, in Rakosch5 posuit, unde audimus eum excursiones tam ad ea loca, quae Nittriam6 et Cremniciam7 versus sunt, quam versus Casthoniam8 misisse. Existimatur populatis io omnibus ac ferro ignique consumptis, quae sunt inter Danubium et Ticiam9 ad Varadi- num Petri10 11 et in Sirmium rediturus, et vel ibi, vel in Nandoralba11 hanc hiemem transacturus;12 sitne autem Budae praesidium aliquod relicturus, nec ne, nihil adhuc certi habemus.13 Intelligimus Budam contra eius voluntatem combustam, atque auctorem facinoris capite etiam truncatum, arcem salvam esse et illaesam.

15 [2.] Arcem Strigoniensem a praefecto eiusdem derelictam quidam tenuioris conditionis homines ingressi duce Matheo quodam Nagh, qui aliter peditibus illius capituli praefuit, cum non parvam commeatorum, tormentorum et aliarum rerum ad defensionem arcis pertinentium copiam ibi comperissent, occuparunt, et usque in hunc diem nomine reginalis maiestatis tenent. Miserant ad maiestatem reginalem his diebus pro 20 bombardario et pulveribus, quae maiestas sua est subministratura et hominem etiam suum, qui eis praesit, illuc ad eos missura. Non dubitamus arcem facile ab hoste

2 Tétény

Suleyman marched in to Buda on 12 September 1526.

4 The floating bridge over the Danube was finished by 19 September.

5 Rákosmező, the traditional location of Hungarian national assemblies.

6 Nyitra (today: Nitra, Slovakia).

7 Körmöcbánya (today: Kremnica, Slovakia).

" Kassa (today: KoSice, Slovakia)

9 Tisza

10 Pétervárad. Today: part of Újvidék (Novi Sad, Serbia).

11 Nándorfehérvár (today: Beograd, Serbia).

l- In fact the Turkish army did not spend the winter in Hungary.

No Turkish guards were left in Buda.

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