Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1532
20 25 30 cum imperatore Turearum non confliget, et confligens, si superabitur.3 Et iam intel- ligimus dominationem suam in Wyzakna4 esse et ibidem cum Transsilvanis comitia pro conservatione regni celebrare,5 quibus peractis mox sine mora ad maiestatem regiam sese recipiet. Habet exercitum, ut fertur, ad octo milium hominum. Tureae sunt vix trecenti, reliqui Moldavi, Transalpini et Hungari. [5.] Illud etiam sciatis, quod die sabbato proxime elapso6 illustris dominus gubernator habuit cum Gerendi7 congressum, quando tractatus isti de deditione peracti sunt. Ipse Gerendi numquam in conspectum domini gubernatoris ausus est prodire, nisi prius filium suum reponeret in Cibinium pro obside, quod ei libenter praestitit, sed nostra omnium cum admiratione. Quid postea secutum sit, ignoramus. Et bene valete. Datum Lippae die 14. mensis Iunii 1532. Vestri frater Franciscus de Frangepanibus subscripsit Sirmiensis subscripsit On the back side: Magnifico domino Thomae Nadasdino consiliario sacrae maiestatis regis Hungáriáé, domino fratri et amico honorandissimo 3 Nagyszeben was the last bastion of the Ferdinand-party. Gritti tried to seize it. Since he had no properly equipped army, he made a deal with Szeben that if Ferdinand does not give battle to the Sultan in the following 6 months or is defeated, the town will be handed over to King John within 6 months. See: Szakaly Ferenc, Vesztőhely az út porában, Budapest, 1986, 69. 4 Vízakna (today: Ocna, Romania) 5 We have no further details on the partial national assembly called together by Gritti. According to Fraknói (MOB I„ 468.), Gritti announced it for 14 July which is obviously false because he was already in Buda in early July. It may by a spelling mistake and June is meant, which seems more probable based on Brodarics’ letter too. Gábor Barta opines that Gritti announced an assembly in Vízakna but had no time to wait for the delegates to arrive, so the assembly did not take place actually. See Barta Gábor, Ludovicos Gritti kormányzósága (1531-1534), Történelmi Szemle, 1971,305. 6 I.e. on 8 June. 7 Miklós Gerendi (7-1542). Royal Secretary under Louis II, diplomat, Archdean of Ugocsa, later Provost of Óbuda. Joins Ferdinand after Mohács. The first Chairman of the Hungarian Chamber (1527- 1529), an expert of economy. The monarch appointed him Bishop of Transylvania in 1527. He held the position until 1540, and as such becomes a key figure in the Ferdinand-party in Transylvania. 304
