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

1537

admodum recordor me alias de hoc egisse2 cum Vestra Dominatione Reverendissima cupidum salutis publicae, et certe libenter in hoc parerem mandato et satisfacerem desiderio Vestrae Dominationis. Sed nescio, nec habeo, quid certi scribam, cum et ipse incertus adhuc sim, quae futura adhuc sit deliberatio regis,3 domini mei clementissimi, io maxime antequam secretarius ad eius maiestatem hinc a me missus revertatur.4 Quo etiam reverso ego, tanquam servus et alienae voluntatis minister non potero me extendere, nisi in quantum rex meus penniserit. Hoc unum Vestra Reverendissima Dominatio iudicio meo pro sua in patriam hanc nostram communem caritate et debito facere possit, ut debeat apud maiestatem domini sui5 hortari, videlicet monere et obsecrare is eius maiestatem, ut si quid tale emergent in tractanda et componenda hac pace, quod non omnino videretur suae maiestati intolerabile, id vellet pro salute huius miserrimi regni et aliorum regnorum ac provinciarum suae maiestatis, quae in eadem sunt navi, non iniquo animo subire, et hanc pacis compositionem non amplius differre. Nec hoc scribo, quod dicam per suam maiestatem defuisse, quominus haec fuerint hactenus 20 etiam conclusa. Sed timeo, sicut semper timui dilationes, ex quibus quantum incommodi evenerit, quis non videt. Amisimus totum fere, quod erat inter Dravum et Savum.6 Providendum esset, ne perirent et reliqua.

[2.] De negotio domini Valentini et domini Pauli,7 quando dominus Paulus duriorem se praestat, decrevi ego, et ita etiam ad dominum Thurzonem scripsi8 non me amplius 25 in hoc negotio intromittere, propter quod negotium componendum potissimum nuntiaveram me libenter fore cum Vestra Dominatione, si ipsam vel ad Saagh,9 quod ab eius servitoribus audiveram ita futurum, vel ad Sanctum Benedictum10 venire contigisset.

2 Brodarics met Várday near Esztergom in April 1537, and asked him to do all he can and persuade Ferdinand and his councillors to accept the fair conditions of peace. See the letter by Várday to Ferdinand on 6 July 1537. HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc 31. Konv. C, fol. 33.

5 János Szapolyai.

4 Brodarics sent his secretary Canon of Eger Tamás Mindszenti to Szapolyai around 10 July in order to clarify some terms of peace. See Károlyi Árpád, Okiratok és levelek a nagyváradi béke történetéhez 1536-1538, Történelmi Tár, 1878, 729-731.

5 Várday supported Ferdinand I.

6 The area between the Drava and Sava rivers in Slavonia was Brodarics' native land. The remark can also referto the fact that Pozsega surrendered during the Ottoman campaign in 1536, and this was experienced as a disaster. Getting it back was the purpose of the campaign in 1537, and its organisation started at this time already.

7 Bálint Török joined Szapolyai at the end of 1536, and he became a pillar for King John in Trans- danubia. Beginning with early 1537, he practically waged a private war for getting hold of estates of pro- Ferdinand noblemen including Constable of Győr Pál Bakics. The enraged Bakics accused Török with betraying Louis II, Ferdinand I, and Szapolyai alike, and then challenged him to a duel. See Blssenyli József, Enyingi Török Bálint okmánytára, Budapest, 1994, 122-123.

8 The letter to Thurzó is lost.

9 Ság (today: Sasinkovo, Slovakia), a village in the estate of Galgóc, which belonged to Elek Thurzó.

10 Garamszentbenedek (today: Hronsky Benadik, Slovakia).

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