Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1523
io meritissimum, quem nos Suae Sanctitati praesentamus.9 Nam nos alium nequamquam admittere volumus neque possemus contra iura nostra et statuta regni nostri, quae infringi regnicolae nostri nullo modo paterentur, orireturque inde aliqua turba perniciosissima, quae nescimus quo pacto sedari posset. Referemus hanc operam tibi et eius collegae uberrima gratia et favore nostro. Datum. 12 István Brodarics to Sigismund I Rome, 1 January 1523 Manuscript used: BN T. 4. fol. 122 r-v.1 Published: Acta Tomiciana VI. 219-220. I. Brodarics fulfilled Sigismund's request and approached the Pope regarding the Plock bishopric and the matter of indulgences. Sigismund will learn the Pope s answer from a letter to he sent through Anton Fugger. - 2. He informs Sigismund that the Pope holds him in the highest esteem among all Christian rulers, and he alone is considered the refuge of Christianity and also the only support of Hungarian King Louis. — 3. He says he is happy to he available for Sigismund because he knows that by serving Sigismund he is of service to his own master Louis. Serenissime Princeps et Domine, Domine Clementissime. Post servitutis meae in gratiam Vestrae Serenissimae Maiestatis humillimam commendationem. [ 1.] Dignata est Vestra Maiestas his diebus superiore dare ad me litteras,1 2 ut in facto ecclesiae Plocensis pro voto ac desiderio Maiestatis Vestrae apud Sanctissimum Domi- 5 num Nostrum elaborarem, miserat etiam Maiestas Vestra binas alias litteras ad Sanctitatem Domini Nostri, alteras gratulatorias,3 alteras de indulgentiis et officio collecto9 After the death of Bishop of Ptock Erazm Ciotek the King of Poland wanted to install Ratal Leszczynski, Bishop of Przemisl into the vacant position. However, Hadrian VI did not wait for Sigismund’s recommendation but appointed Johann Albrecht, brother of Albrecht von Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order which had a hostile relationship with Poland. (Compare: AT VI. 154-155.) The Polish ruler protested angrily. Since neither party would budge, a one-year-long diplomatic struggle began. Brodarics played an important part of its settlement. More on this: Kasza Péter, Egy magyar diplomata lengyel szolgálatban. Újabb források Brodarics István római követi működéséhez., Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények, 2009, 593-605. The same in English: A Hungarian diplomat in Polish service New sources for thefunctioning of István Brodarics as ambassador in Rome. Camoenae Hungaricae, 2010, 61-73. 1 Another manuscript: BK 223 fol. 83-84. 2 No doubt, it is the letter by Sigismund in October 1522. •' Sigismund greeted Hadrian VI for his election in a letter dated in Vilnius 22 October 1522. Compare: AT VI. 130. 61
