Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1538
318 István Brodarics to Ferdinand I Vác, 11 August 1538 Manuscript used: I IIIStA. Ung. Akt. Fasc. 36. Konv. B. fol. 56-57. /. Sigismund Steiner, Ferdinand's courtier, visited him: leaders of Vienna sent him to collect information on the Turks, hut lie could say nothing more Ilian what he had written to Ferdinand in his latest letters. When he receives news from Transylvania, where he lias three men. he will notify Ferdinand. - 3. Lope de Soria writes that the Sultan has serious difficulties with the Persian Shah, so he will need all his troops in Europe. In this case Ferdinand may he ahle to reconquer castles along lower reaches of the Danube from Eszék to Belgrade. - 3. Regarding the citizen of Pest, he is forwarding King John s request to Ferdinand. Serenissime Princeps et Domine, Domine Clementissime. Post humillimam servitutis meae commendationem. [1.] Diverterat ad me ex Buda dominus Sigismundus Stetner,1 aulicus Vestrae Maiesta- tis missus per dominos regentes Viennenses inquirens de rebus Turcicis. Cui ego nihil 5 aliud scivi respondere, nisi quod ad Maiestatem Vestram perscripsi proximis et novissimis meis litteris.2 Quod etiam ex superabundant! volui his litteris meis esse notum nos nihil aliud habere. Habeo tres in Transsilvania, quorum aliquis impossibile est, quod non redeat, sive ergo inde, sive aliunde quicquid erit, faciam statim Vestram Maiestatem certiorem. [2.] Fortasse Deus dabit, quod pro hoc tempore erimus tuti ab hoste, quem ex litteris io recentibus, quas a domino Lopes de Soria3 accepi, cognovi cum rege Persarum4 esse valde impeditum, ut coactus sit vocare ad se omnes suos exercitus Europeos mittendos in auxilium filii.5 Quod si ita est, et si non esset tarde, possent Vestrae Maiestates facere aliquid praeclari in recuperanda adhuc isto anno Ezek6 et ea, quae sunt per ripam Danubii usque ad Belgra- dum. Sed fiat id, quod commode et sine periculo fieri potest, et tunc, quando fieri potest. 15 [3.] Habui commendatum istud negotium civis Pesthiensis a rege meo, oblitus fui illud expedire. Quod nunc mitto et supplico Vestrae Maiestati, ut in eo dignetur ad petitionem regis mei facere, quod iusturn est. Vestram Maiestatem Deus conservet semper felicem et incolumem. Cui servitutem meam humillimam iterum commendo. 20 Vaciae, 11. Augusti 1538. Eiusdem Vestrae Sacrae Maiestatis humilis servitor Vaciensis subscripsit 23 Eiusdem... subscripsit manu Broderici 1 No further data have been found on Sigismund Stetner. 2 See letters by Brodarics on 3, 7, and 8 August. •' Lope de Soria was Legate of Charles V in Venice. 4 Tahmasp I (1524-1576), Shah of Persia. 5 Mustafa, Suleyman Sultan's second son (1515-1553), Sanjak-Bey of Manisa from 1533. 6 Eszék (today: Osijek, Croatia). 553
