Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1528
tunc et illud: partem copiarum Petri Pereny6 ex Transsilvania egredientis fuisse profligatam, Maylad, dispensatorem olim divi regis mei Ludovici, in eo proelio interfectum,7 haec nunc quoque confirmantur pro re certa, ipsum autem Petrum Pereny, non ausum io amplius tentare fortunam ex Transsilvania egrediendi, retrocessisse territum exercitu regio, qui est in illis partibus prope ex XX milibus Rascianorum conflatus eorum, qui aliquando cum homine Nigro8 fuerant, nunc sunt sub Radyth9 et eius sociis maiestati regiae fidelibus. [2.] Praeterea Dominatio Vestra potuit intellexisse fuisse congregatum non conis temnendum exercitum Ferdinandi regis contra copias, quae erant sub ductu castellani castri regii Wyhel Simonis litterati,10 inter quos debebat fieri conflictus.11 Nunc hac ipsa hora venit ad maiestatem regiam nuntius, non postremae conditionis homo, qui proelio interfuit et omnia oculis vidit. Exercitum illum per nostros esse penitus deletum, castra etiam, in quae post primam fugam confugerant, capta et direpta, omnes 20 fere, qui in castris fuerunt, occisos, bombardas omnes et quidem pulchras acceptas. Exercitus iste erat conflatus ex copiis Pauli Strigoniensis,12 Thomae Agriensis,13 Thur- zonis14 et nandoryspanii15 et quorundam aliorum adversae partis, item Cassoviensium 6 Péter Petényi was the Transylvanian Voivod of Ferdinand at the time (1527-1529). 7 This information is false: István Maylád, future Voivod of Transylvania did not die in the battle. He was active in political battles until 1541. Then he was captured by the Turks and became a prisoner of the Yedikule together with Bálint Török. He died there. 8 Crni Jovan, the Black Man. 9 Radio Bosic or Deli Radic, one of the commanders of the Serbs that fled to Hungary pushed by the Turks not long before the battle of Mohács. First he was second-in-command with Crni Jovan and commander of the sloopers on the Danube. When Jovan joined Ferdinand, he didn't follow but stayed with Szapolyai. His troops held the castles of Lugos, Lippa, and Karánsebes and kept the Maros valley on Sza- polyai’s side throughout the year 1528. They defended Lippa against Ferdinand's troops lead by Bálint Török, Péter Perényi, and István Maylád in the autumn of 1528. See: Bessenyei József (ed.), 1504-1566 Memoria rerum, Budapest, 1981, 35., ill. Bessenyei József, A Héttorony foglya. Töröli Bálint. Budapest, 1986, 36. 10 Simon Athinai Deák f?— 1548), military nobleman of Slavonian origin was in the service of Szapolyai already before 1526. Later he entered the service of Péter Perényi and became Captain of the castles of Sárospatak and Sátoraljaújhely but handed over these castles to Szapolyai after Perényi changed sides. He defended Sátoraljaújhely resolutely against Ferdinand’s troops in the winter of 1528. Ferenc Körösy. commander of the besiegers reported on this to Ferdinand on 12 February 1528. (HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 8. Konv. A fol. 43.) After the defeat at Sina, Athinai followed Szapolyai to Poland. Szapolyai appointed him as one of the Commanders of his army that returned to the homeland in the autumn of 1528. More on Simon Athinai Deák see: Sörös Pongrác, Athinai Deák Simon, Századok, 1905, 497-517. More recently: Varga Szabolcs, Athinai Simon = Pécs Lexikon L, 58. 11 The battle took place on 23 September near Sárospatak. The royal army was led by Gáspár Serédi who attributed victory to the flight of Ferenc Révay. See ETE I. 404-406. Ferdinand's clerks in Buda informed him about the defeat on 27 September 1527. See: HHStA. Ung. Akt. Fasc. 9. Konv. A fol. 128. 12 Pál Várday, Archbishop of Esztergom. 17 Tamás Szalaházy, Bishop of Veszprém and Eger. 14 Elek Thurzó. 15 Palatine István Báthori. 225
