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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diétám generalem pro festo beati Lucae evangélistáé.5 Caesar his diebus fuit circa Posonium. Castra, quae vel capta vel deserta per Germanos fuerunt, inter alia Owar, io sunt tradita ad manus regias. Nunc credimus caesarem esse circa Wiennam, si non ulterius. Venerunt hodie nova septem milia Germanorum citra Wiennam esse per Tureos oppressa, et ex his sex milia caesa. Paulus archiepiscopus supplicavit imperatori pro salvo conductu, quo habito vel iam ivit vel iturus omnino est ad imperatorem. Supplicavit instantissime maiestati regiae pro gratia, quam adhuc obtinere non potuit, nisi is forte iam medio imperatoris obtineat, quod ego vix credo.6 Imperatorem credo vastata et combusta Austria, vel habito vel non habito conflictu cum rege Ferdinando, retro abiturum idque brevi.7 Petrus Pereny est apud imperatorem.8

[2.] De castellano Budensi Thoma Nadasdino, alumno olim meo, quid factum sit, Vestrae Dominationes intelligere potuerunt. Is enim cum captivus mortem evadere nullo :o modo posset et se ad regis tentorium confugiens ad pedes regis proiecisset, gratiam eius meruit et vere gratiam, prosequitur enim eum regia maiestas singulari gratia hoc potissimum nomine, quod regi Ferdinando usque ad mortem fuerit fidissimus et castrum Budensc mira diligentia curaverit ac muniverit, ut post obitum divi Mathiae regis confessione omnium arx Budensis neminem habuerit meliorem curatorem.9 25 [3.] Magnificus dominus Ludovicus Gritti,10 vir certe summa prudentia praeditus et

regi carissimus, est hic; heri habuit litteras a patre, serenissimo duce Venetiarum, in quibus scribitur Carolum caesarem esse in Italia Placentiae, sed cum parvo exercitu,

20 post confugiens Jel. pedibus eius provolutus supmscr. alia manu ad .... proiecisset

5 18 October 1529. The national assembly did not take place at the planned time. Szapolyai gave the new date as 14 February 1530. See MOE I. 249.

6 Compare to Pál Várday’s report on this to the Pope on 8 October 1531. Tih-infr, Monumenta Sla- vorum..., 614-616.

7 On the events of the campaign see Bijdlnz József, Szülejmán naplója 1529-ki bécsi hadjáratáról, Magyar Történelmi Tár, 1867, 181-212.

* Péter Perényi, who was captured by János Szerecsen, was handed over to Suleyman who had just arrived to the country. On capturing Perényi see Szapolyai’s letter on 28 July 1529.

9 Tamás Nádasdy defended the castle of Buda with 2000 soldiers in September 1529. However, the army that comprised mostly foreign mercenaries gave up the castle after a few days on 8 September. Nádasdy resisted and was captured and handed over to the Turks who wanted to execute him. But he managed to escape to Szapolyai on the Pest side and the latter pardoned him. On Nádasdy's case see more: ZiíRMiíCtil János, Emlékirat a Ferdinand és János, Magyarország királyai között történt dolgokról = Kulcsár Péter, Krónikáink magyarul 111/2, Budapest, 2007. 149-150.; and Btntlt.LN Farkas, Erdély története I, Budapest 2000. 108.

10 Lodovico (Alvise) Gritti (1480—29 September 1534). An illegitimate son of the future Doge of Venice Andrea Gritti. Jewellery merchant from Istanbul, a confidant of Grand Vizier Ibrahim. Arrives in Hungary at the time of the Sultan’s campaign in 1529. He plays an important albeit controversial role in Hungarian internal politics in the first half of the 1530s. Szapolyai - underTurkish pressure - appoints him Treasurer first, then, in 1530, Governor. Transylvanians who rise against Gritti capture and execute him for murdering Bishop of Várad Imre Czibak in September 1534 in Medgyes. More on his life with a detailed bibliography, see: Szakái. Y Ferenc, Vesztőhely az út porában. Gritti Magvamrszágon 1529-1534. Budapest 1986.

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