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

1523

adipiscatur.4 Nam nisi hanc viam tenerem, nescio, cui conferretur, penitus extraneo et alieno, ut fieri consuevit. Qua tamen in re nescio, quid adhuc sequetur. Supplico Dominationi Vestrae Reverendissimae, dignetur ipsam personam eius habere commento datam. Scio fratres eius ad unum omnes et ipsum quoque esse optimum servitorem Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationis. Sit contenta Vestra Dominatio Reverendissima, ut suis potius benefiat, quam alienis. Vestra Dominatio Reverendissima scit bene, quid de talibus beneficiis fieri sol[et] et quibus involucris talia soleant implicari.5

[2.] Nova nunc alia non sunt. Nam de confoederatione inter omnes pene totius Chriis stianitatis principes V. huius mensis sollemniter publicata, credo iam Vestram Dominationem audiisse. Eam credo ego rebus nostris, si tandem expergisci voluerimus, fore procul dubio salutarem. Haec raptissime.

Me rursus in gratiam Vestrae Dominationis Reverendissimae et hoc negotium humiliter commendo. Ex Urbe XVIII. Augusti 1523.

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servitor deditissimus Stephanus Brodarych orator

On the outer side: Reverendissimo Domino Meo, Domino Fratri episcopo Trans- silvanensi etc., Domino observandissimo

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Sigismund I to István Brodarics [Cracow], [September 1523]'

Manuscript used: BJ 6556 fol. 76r.1 2

I. Doctor Lucas has returned from Rome and reported about Brodarics' diligence in the case of the Flock bishopric. Brodarics can therefore count on the King's gratitude. - 2. He holds grudges for the matter has not been settled yet because of the increased sum of annata, even though this sum was designated for Jight against the infidels. Thus, leaving it with the country would be more appropriate than increasing it and

4 Kálnai, with Brodarics’ assistance, filed an application to Hadrian VI to earn archdeanship of Telegd right after the death of Lászai. He got it. More recently on Brodarics' role in the appointment of Kálnai using numerous sources in archives in Rome: Lakatos Bálint, Kálnai Imre királyi titkári és főesperesi kinevezése (1523-/525). Adalékok a pápaság magyar személyi politikájához Mohács előtt, Századok, 2010, 411-431.

5 Várdai had to be familiar with the way such benefices were awarded because 10 years earlier he got bishopric of Transylvania essentially after a foreign beneficiary, elected Bishop of Bordeaux Johannes de Fuxo. See Lukcsics Pál, A gróf Zichy-család okmánytára XU., Budapest, 1931, 368.

1 The letter mentions neither the death of Hadrian VI (14 September) nor the following conclave (1 October-19 November), so presumably it was written before the Pope’s death.

2 Another manuscript: BCzart TN 35. fol. 749-750.

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