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

1538

io [2.] Intelligo etiam, quod rex, dominus meus clementissimus nuntiavit domino Lasky,4 et gentes Vestrae Maiestatis ut redirent ad propria. Duxi statim Vestrae Maie- stati haec tanta nova significanda. Quae ego ob certas alias causas credo esse vera. Tamen quicquid erit, quicquid habere potero, statim rursus significabo Vestrae Maie- stati. In cuius gratiam servitutem meam humiliter commendo. Quam Deus conservet 15 semper felicem et incolumem.

Vaciae, 8. Octobris MDXXXVII1.

Mitto ad Vestram Maiestatem litteras5 vayvodae Maylad, quae non videntur multum dissentire a nuntiatis per cancellarium.

Servulus humillimus

20 Vaciensis subscripsit

On the outer side: Sacrae regiae Romanorum etc. maiestati, domino meo clementissimo.

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Ferdinand I to István Brodarics Linz, 8 October 1538

Manuscript used: IIUStA. Ung. Akt. Fasc. 37. Konv. B, fol. 24.1

Ferdinand is forwarding a tetter to Brodarics, which informs him on movements of the allied fleet against the Turks.

Reverende, Devote, sincere Dilecte.

Cuiusmodi nova de expeditione classium confoederatonim1 2 contra Tureos acceperimus, Devotio Vestra ex incluso exemplo3 intelliget. Quod propterea ad se mittendum putavimus, ut nobiscum in meliorem spem erigeretur brevi aliquando fore, uti res bel17 Mitto... subscripsit manu BroJerici

4 taski lead the Habsburg auxiliary troops sent to aid Szapolyai. These were withdrawn when the danger of the Sultan invading Transylvania after Moldova was gone.

5 The attachment has not been preserved.

1 Draft.

2 A League was formed in February 1538, initiated by Charles V. which involved Venice and the Papal State, with the purpose of delivering a decisive blow to the Turks on sea., and thus open up the way for a campaign against Constantinople. Ferdinand informed Brodarics about the movements of this fleet, still trusting the success of the campaign, even though the allied fleet entered a battle with the Turks near Preveza along the Greek shore on 27 September. Haireddin Barbarossa lead the Turkish fleet, and the outcome was dubious. For more on forming the League and on military movements in 1538, see Korpás Zoltán, V. Károly és Magyarország, Budapest, 2008, 183-191.

■' The enclosed letter is unknown.

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