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

1538

5 licae felicius adversus istos succedant. Id, quod Deus Optimus Maximus faxit, in cuius bonitate clementiaque confidere debemus.

Datum Lintii, 8vo Octobris 1538.

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István Brodarics to Ferdinand I Vác, 13 October 1538

Manuscript used: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 37. Konv. B, fol. 38-39.

I. He can confirm what he wrote earlier, based on new, sure information: the Sultan, after nominating a new Voivod, left Moldova. - 2. He does all he can to support the legation of Pál Bornemissza in connection to the commissioners. - 3. Werbőczy s letter confirms what Maylád has written already, that the Sultan made a relative of Petru Raref Voivod, and gave him a guard of5001). The defeated Voivod fed to one of his castles in Transylvania. György Fráter is besieging the other. - 4. Since he has to travel to Zala in connection to his younger brother, he will be unable to write to Ferdinand as often as he has.

Sacra Regia Maiestas et Domine, Domine Clementissime.

[1.] Illa nova, quae proxime scripseram,1 renovantur et confirmantur caesarem Turearum recessisse cum toto suo exercitu alio wayvoda in Moldáviám imposito, nec magno damno ibi facto. Habui de his litteras secretarii regii intimi, qui ad me non 5 scriberet fabulas. Nec habeo nunc quicquam aliud.

[2.] Dominus Paulus,1 2 secretarius Vestrae Sacrae Maiestatis est hic apud me. Vadit ad regem.3 Ego, quod praesens praestare non possum, facio absens per litteras sollicitando illud negotium commissariorum4 totis viribus.

Vestram Maiestatem Deus conservet semper felicem et incolumem, io Vaciae, 13. Octobris 1538.

[3.] Post scripta: Cancellarius noster Werbewczy haec eadem mihi nuntiavit de Turearum discessu. Fecit wayvodam quendam consanguineum Petri wayvodae nutritum in sua porta.5 Debet esse ille, de quo wayvoda Maylad ad me scripsit in litteris, quas in specie proximis litteris meis inclusas ad Vestram Maiestatem misi.6 Turearum impera- 15 tor reliquit cum eo usque ad quinque milia hominum pro praesidio. Petrus wayvoda fugit in Transsilvaniam ad alterum ex suis castris, in quo est cum uxore et liberis.7

1 See the letter by Brodarics to Ferdinand on 8 October.- Ferdinand sent Pál Bornemissza to Szapolyai in legation on 26 September 1538. See the instructions for Bornemissza: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 37. Konv. A, fol. 91r-94v.

3 János Szapolyai.

4 Reference to the commissioners to be appointed in terms of the Peace of Várad.

5 The new Voivod, §tefan Lácustá, was a half-bother of the expelled Petru Rare?. He had lived in exile in the Sultan’s court for a long time.

6 See the letter by István Maylád to Brodarics on 18 September.

7 The Voivod’s family had fled to the castle ofCsicsó in Transylvania earlier. Petru Rare? joined them

there.

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