Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1527
Ex Deven, XVIII. Martii 1527. Eiusdem Vestrae Maiestatis Sacratissimae humillimus servulus et capellanus Stephanus Brodericus episcopus Syrmiensis 155 On the outer side: Ad manus Sacrae Regiae Maiestatis, domini mei gratiosissimi, Pragae (Written later in a near-contemporary handwriting: Excusatio Broderici, episcopi Sirmiensis alienationis suae a rege Ferdinando. In qua indicit etiam ius electionis regni in regem liberum esse) 83 István Brodarics to Antonio Burgio Esztergom, 22 March 1527 Manuscript used: Ilii St A, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 3. Konv. C, fol. 146. /. Has received Burgio s letter, so he knows that at least one of his letters has reached Burgio too. - 2. He has reported on events in Hungary in his letters. A servant of Balbi is about to leave, from whom he can learn more about things that are not advisable to write about in a letter. Salutem et servitiorum meorum commendationem. Magnifice Domine. [1.] Accepi litteras a Vestra Dominatione,1 ex quibus cognosco paucas ei ex meis esse redditas vel potius unas [!] tantum. Miror, quo devenerint litterae per me missae nisi enim frequentes.1 2 * Sed nec multum miror itineribus omnibus clausis. 5 [2.] Perscripsi omnia, quae hic agebantur. Postremas misi per servitorem domini Gurcensis.2 quem credo iampridem istuc pervenisse. Vadit nunc Squaquara,4 qui loque- tur multa, quae scribere non fuit visum. Ab eo intelliget omnia, quem et ipsum uti fratrem mihi carissimum commendo Vestrae Dominationi. Quam rogo, ut me in gra1 We do not have Burgio's letter.- Unfortunately, none of the earlier letters by Brodarics to Burgio survived. 5 Girolamo Balbi bishop of Gurk. 4 Reference to Mátyás Bánosai Squaquara (Squaquara de Bancha), Canon of Esztergom. We know his name from the records of the Esztergom chapter. The ones until 1527 survived. This identification is all the more likely because Brodarics. who was Canon of Esztergom himself, recommends Squaquara to Burgio as his own brother. In his next letter he refers to Squaquara as their common brother. The addressee of the letter is Francesco Marsupino who also had staltnm of Canon of Esztergom. The records have Squaquara’s name in 1526, but not in 1527. That year's records survived only partially. Nevertheless, we have a letter from the Esztergom chapter to Francesco Marsupino from 21 March 1527, in which they inform him that Canon Mathias de Bancha will be sent to Rome in connection to some issues. See: ETE I. 308-309. On Squaquara, see: Lukcsics Pál, Az esztergomi főkáptalan a mohácsi vész idején. Esztergom, 1927, 27. Records of the chapter: Solymosi László (ed.). Az esztergomi székeskáptalanjegyzőkönyve (1500-1502. 1507-1527), Budapest, 2002. 179
