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

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et aliarum civitatum,16 erant et CCCC lancigeri Germani. Ante proelium hortati sunt eos nostri, ut proelium omitteretur, ne fieret tanti Christiani ac fraterni sanguinis effu- 25 sio, ad quae illos, dicit iste nuntius, superbissime atque insolentissime respondisse convitiis etiam et probis turpissimis additis. Haec volui Dominationi Vestrae Reverendissimae ita, ut accepi, esse nota, quae pro eo amore ac favore, quo serenissimum regem meum prosequitur, scio, quod super his ex corde laetabitur. Cui servitia mea unice commendo. Quae optime valeat.

30 Ex castro Thamowiensi 28. Septembris 1528.

Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationis

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[3.] Supervenit et alius nuntius domini Francisci Homonnay17 idem affirmans. 35 Venerunt litterae domini Iacobi Thornaly,18 in quibus scribit, allatum esse ad se de Transsilvania octingentos equites Petri Perenii debellatos, capita Francisci Erdély et illius Maylad, de quo supra, esse ablata.

Propter occupationes coactus sum haec aliena manu scribere, quare veniam peto.

Allata sunt et alia nova, sed ista non audeo affirmare, versus partes Slavoniae per 40 copias episcopi Zágrábi ensis19 et fidelissimi omnium Hungarorum Ioannis Banffy, item nonnullorum comitatuum, qui simul pro rege nostro conspiraverant, copias regis Bohemiae esse profligatas.20

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On the hack side: Reverendissimo domino meo, domino Petro episcopo Cracoviensi, vicecancellario regni Poloniae, domino observandissimo

34 Supervenit...profligatas manu Broderici

16 According to a plan dated January 1528. Archbishop of Esztergom Pál Várday was supposed to give 100 cavalrymen for the fight against Szapolyai. Bishop of Eger Tamás Szalaházy - referred to as Bishop of Veszprém by Brodarics - was supposed to give 100, Treasurer Elek Thurzó was supposed to give 75. The list does not include the Palatine. The draft prescribes 500, 400, and 300 cavalrymen, respectively, for the same dignitaries for the fight against the Turks. (We cannot find Thurzó on this latter list.) See: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 8. Konv. A, fol. 15-16.

17 Ferenc Homonnay Drugeth, nephew of János Szapolyai (mother: Krisztina Szapolyai), one-time member of the so called “Kalandos Társaság” [Adventurous Alliance], Comes of Ung, Treasurer of King John in 1527-1533.

18 Jakab Tornallyai, Treasurer of King John from 1526, Vice-Comes of Gömör from 1528. More on his role in the Szapolyai administration developed after Mohács: Barta Gábor, Konszolidációs kísértet Magyarországon a mohácsi csatavesztés után. Századok, 1977, 635-677.

19 Simon Erdődy, Bishop of Zagreb.

2(1 Hearing the news of Szapolyai’s return, his adherents in Slavonia Simon Erdődy, János Bánffy, and János Tahy recruited an army to recapture Zagreb that was packed with Spanish troops. However, they had to give up the siege upon hearing about the approaching auxiliary army. See: Zermegii János, Emlékirat a Ferdinand és János, Magyarország királyai között történt dolgokról = KULCSÁR Péter, Krónikáink magyarul 111/2, Budapest, 2007, 148.

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