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

1537

Haec erant scripta in scheda:

[9.] Consiliarii, intelleximus, non venient, et sic tam vos, quam nos delusi sumus, loannes rex publice dicit se habere litteras a Turearum imperatore eum esse contentum 50 habere pro rege, quemcunque regnum elegerit, et defendere in regno solo Ferdinando rege excepto. Quaecunque per Thomam regi Ioanni significaveramus, ea rex loannes manifestavit palam omnibus. Lundensis faciat nos certiores de nostris negotiis.

In the lower part of the letter: Reverendissimo domino Ioanni archiepiscopo Lundensi, sacrae Caesareae et catholicae regiae maiestatis oratori, domino mihi observandissimo. Cremniciae.

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István Brodarics to Elek Thurzó Vác, 6 August 1537'

Manuscript used: HUStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 31. Konv. C, fol. 150.1 2

1. The promised councillors have not arrived yet. He and Frangepán are waiting for instructions in Vác. - 2. György> Fráter is said to come to Buda, hut this is uncertain just as so many other things are.

Spectabilis etc.

[1.] Consiliarii3 illi nondum venerunt, nec scimus, quando venient. Nostri cum rege, domino nostro clementissimo omnes concordarunt daturi operam, ut liberent regnum a vobis German[is] ex omni parte. Nunc nihil aliud. Nos hic erimus exspectantes, si quid 5 nobis iubeatur. Me Vestrae Dominationi unice commendo, immo ambo commendamus. Quae recte valeat.

Vaciae, 6ta lulii [Augusti] 1537.

Sunt, qui dicant fratrem Georgium4 Budam venire. Si hoc erit verum, posset venire hanc ob causam, sed hoc non est apud me certum, sicut alia omnia incertissima.

1 The letter has survived in a copy only, which is dated 6 July. This is certainly a mistake. August is the correct date. Szapolyai instructed his envoys Brodarics and Frangepán to travel to Vác and negotiate certain topics only at the end of July. (See the letter by Tamás Mindszenti on 22 July) The same page (fol. 150r-l 51 v) includes a copy of a letter by Ferenc Frangepán to Thurzó also, which has the date 9 August. So the letter by Brodarics must have been written in the first days of August.

2 Contemporary replica.

3 Councillors of Szapolyai who were supposed to give new instructions to Brodarics and Frangepán for their talks with Johann Wese.

4 Bishop of Várad György Fráter.

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