Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1538
338 István Brodarics to Alessandro Farnese Vác, 16 December 1538 Manuscript used: ASP, Carteggio Farnesiano e Borbonico Estero, busta 159., föl. 20-21. /. Szapolyai will many the daughter of King of Poland Sigismund soon. Szapolyai is sending two Hungarian aristocrats to make the marriage proposal, and ordered Brodarics to go with them. - 2. Mehmet Bey has crossed the Sava and invaded Slavonia with 12,000 soldiers. - 3. The Pope should send help as soon as possible and urge Christian rulers to do the same, because if they wait much longer, there will he nobody to receive the help. Reverendissime ac Illustrissime Domine, Domine mihi semper Observandissime. Post servitutis meae commendationem. [ 1.] De rebus Hungaricis, quid Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi scribam, non habeo, nisi quod video hos duos reges ad mutuam concordiam propensiores, et quod 5 omnia paratiora videntur. Regia maiestas, dominus meus clementissimus accepturus est in uxorem filiam1 regis Poloniae ex secunda uxore, ducae Barensis2 primogenitam,3 pro qua adducenda sua maiestas delegavit duos magnificos dominos4 apud nos primi nominis, quibus et me suae maiestati adiungere placuit, adeoque iam itineri accinti sumus. Nuptias speramus futuras diebus nuptialibus proxime futuris fama est. Sed io nondum satis comperta. [2.] Mehmet becum a porta caesaris Turearum rediisse, et cum duodecim milibus Turearum Savó apud Belgradum traiecto in eam partem Pannoniae, quam Sclavoniam vocant, irrumpere velle, vel iam irrupisse.5 Timetur, ne miserae isti terrae magnum instet periculum. 15 [3.] Quare, Domine Reverendissime, Vestra Illustrissima Dominatio moneat, hortetur sollicitetque Sanctissimum Dominum Nostrum,6 ut et Sua Sanctitas huic iam paene pessumdato regno succurrat, et alios principes Christianos ad subveniendum urgeat, ne, si cito succursum non fieret, non sit postea, cui subveniatur. Quod reliquum est, Vestram Reverendissimam Dominationem salvam, felicem et incolumem valere 20 opto, cui me commendo. 13 vel iam irrupisse suprascr. a manu Broderici 1 Isabella Jagiello (1519-1559), daughter of Sigismund and Bona Sforza, wife of János Szapolyai from 1539, mother of elected Hungarian King John Sigismund. More on her life: Vuruss Endre, Izabella királyné (1519-1559), Budapest, 1901. : The first wife of Polish King Sigismund was Borbála, the sister of Szapolyai. After her death (1515) he married Bona Sforza, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan and Bari. •' Five children were born to Sigismund and Bona Sforza. The eldest of these was Isabella Jagiello, born in 1519. 4 The two lay members of the delegation were Péter Perényi and István Werbőczy. 5 Bey of Szendrö Mehmet attacked Slavonia only in May 1539, but he was driven out by June. 6 Pope Paul III. 579
