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

1532

io [3.] Dominus gubernator cras vadit obviam caesareae maiestati Turearum.

Orator serenissimi regis Poloniae est hic pro negotio Moldavico et pacis, sed de pace iam tardum est.5

[4.] Dominus Transsilvanus bene concordat cum domino gubernatore, quem etiam convivio sollemni excepit.6 Dominus gubernator factus est capitaneus generalis,7 15 datum ei vexillum.

[5.] Germani tacent. Miserunt ad mille pedites lankznetos Strigonium, quorum duo capti per nostros dicuntur. Carolum et Ferdinandum esse Ratisbonae sine gentibus ullis.8

[6.] Est etiam hic secretarius Bavariae.9 Attulit promissa esse ab imperio Ferdinando 20 XX milia peditum, quinque equitum,10 sed pro tutela Germaniae, et nihil contra Ioan- nem. Optime vale. Ex Buda, 16. lulii 1532.

Servitor

Sirmiensis subscripsit

On the hack sicle: Magnifico domino Thomae Nadasdino consiliario regio, domino et uti filio carissimo

10 post gubernator Jel. hodie.

s King Sigistnund sent Constable of Biecz Laurentius Miszkowski to Szapolyai in legation. See his instructions for the legation in: AT XIV. 480-483.

6 Szerémi writes that Bishop of Transylvania Statileo had great aversion towards the appointment of Gritti as Governor already in the 1530, so much so that he left the meeting discussing the appointment angrily. See SztiRiÍMi György, Magyarország romlásáról... 267-268. It seems that by 1532 he came to terms with Gritti.

7 Regarding the appointment see the previous letter.

x Ferdinand and Charles were staying in Regensburg for the imperial diet. Contrary to what Brodarics states, they had enough soldiers. The assembly voted for the desired number of soldiers for the defence of the Empire, and this contributed considerably to the failure of Suleyman’s campaign.

9 Bavarian Duke Louis informed Laski on 29 June 1532 that he had sent an envoy by the name of Gregor with some letters to King John. See Karl August Muitat, Correspond*'tizen und Aktenstücke zur Geschichtc der po/itischen Verhdltnisse der Herzoge Wilhelm und Ludwig von Bayern zu König Johan von Ungern, München, 1857, 226.

10 The imperial ordines offered one Romzug of soldiers, e.g. about 29,000 foot soldiers and 5-6000 cavalrymen. On the details of organising the army, more recently, see: Korpás Zoltán, V Károly és Magyar- ország, Budapest, 2008, 140-143.

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