Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1537
275 István Brodarics to Bernhard Cies' [Várad],1 2 [the spring of 1537]3 Manuscript used: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 33. Konv. B, föl. 2I3.4 Brodarics requests Archbishop of Trident Bernhard Cles in the name of Werbőczy and two other noblemen to use his influence with the King so that the latter has somebody sent to Kápolna)’ before harvest, as it was requested before. Reverendissime Domine. Supplicamus Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi cum domino Stephano Ver- bewci5 et cum duobus nobilibus collegis nostris, dignetur efficere, ut mittatur quispiam de curia maiestatis regiae ad Kápolnái illo modo, sicut ego maiestati regiae 5 supplicavi. Recordetur ct iam aliorum, de quibus habet meum memoriale. Ad Kápolnái frustra esset mittere collectis frugibus.6 Servitor Sirmiensis subscripsit 1 The letter has no addressing, bot it is certain from the salutation and the content that it is written to an influential ecclesiastic person in Ferdinand’s environment, so we can presume that it is Cardinal-Archbishop Bernhard Cles, High Chancellor of Ferdinand. : It may have been written in Várad, because Brodarics says in the previous latter, which may have been written at the same time, that he has talked to Szapolyai, and Szapolyai’s court usually stayed in Várad. ’ The letter, which, like the previous one, also has been preserved as an attachment to Matthias Loboczky’s letter, is undated. In the HHSta it has been tiled among documents from December 1537. Brodarics signed it as Bishop of Pécs and Szerém, but from May 1537 on he used the title Bishop of Vác only, so it was probably produced in the spring of 1537. sometime in March or April. 4 Autograph. 5 Chancellor István Werbőczy was one of the most important landowners in Tolna county, so it was in his best interest to stop Ferenc Kápolnay abusing his power in Southern Transdanubia. 6 The fact that Brodarics wants results in stopping Kápolnay before harvest also suggest a date in the spring. 491
