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

1530

is et caesar Bononiae adhuc sunt, brevi inde Senas ituri, ex Senis Romam ad caesaris coronationem, qui in dominica Laetare,13 si Deus voluerit, coronabitur. Nunc caesar laborat febricula ex catarrho contracta. Veneti ad pontificem et caesarem miserunt insignem legationem. Christianissimus rex Franciae veniebat Lugdunum, dies reddendis eius filiis14 statuta est 4 Martii.

20 [3.] Ego hinc expeditis negotiis Venetiis vado in Franciam, rediturus inde omnino ad

medium Aprilis et per eum mensem ac sequentem auxilio dei daturus hic vel Patavii operam valetudini. Neque autem nunc scio Vestris Dominationibus aliud scribere et ad aliud eas hortari, quam ad quod sum eas Buda discedens hortatus. Illud solum est et unicum, quod videtur esse faciendum omnino.15 Me et servitia mea in gratiam 25 Vestrarum Dominationum humiliter commendo. Quae felicissime valeant.

Venetiis, ultima Ianuarii 1530.

Cupio et supplico commendari servitia mea isti maiestati regiae et item reginali, dominis nostris clementissimis.

[4.] Scriptis his intellexi mutatam esse rationem consilii caesaris coronandi idque ob 30 eam causam, quod caesar acceperit, si coronaretur, mox principes Germaniae creaturos alium regem Romanorum pro suo arbitrio.16

Vestrarum Dominationum Reverendissimae, Illustris ac Magnificae

servitor deditissimus Stephanus Brodericus

35 Sirmiensis

On the hack side: Reverendissimo et Illustri ac Magnificis Dominis, Dominis meis Domino Petro episcopo Cracoviensi, vicecancellario, Domino Christophoro de Sid- lovieczk castellano Cracoviensi, regni Poloniae supremo cancellario etc., dominis mihi observandissimis. In Polonia

21 post mensem det. aut stiprasa: ac 27 Cupio...Brodericus manu Bwderici

15 27 March 1530. Finally, the Emperor was crowned in Bologna rather than in Rome on Charles' birthday as well as the fifth anniversary of the battle of Pavia, 24 February.

14 According to the Peace of Cambrai, (a.k.a. the “Ladies’ Peace”), signed on 5 August 1529, Francis I paid 2 million gold coins as ransom to Charles V for the release of his sons, whom the latter had had to hand over as hostages as the Peace of Madrid had prescribed in 1526.

15 Compare Brodaries’ letter to Tomicki and Szydtowiecki on 9 November 1529. It says that the only way of saving Hungary is that Ferdinand renounces his demand for the throne and does not provoke the Sultan with his efforts in Hungary.

16 German princes finally agreed to elect younger brother of Charles Ferdinand Habsburg King of Rome. The ceremony took place on 5 January 1531. On struggles preceding the election of Ferdinand see: Alfred Kohler, Antihabsbiirgische Politik in der Epoche Karls V. Die Reichsstcindische Opposition gegen die Wahl Ferdinands I. zunt römischen Kfínig und gegen die Anerkennung seines K&nigstums (1524-1534), Gottingen, 1982.

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