Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1539
347 Manuscript used: SNA, fond Hodnoverné miesto Leles, Acta Actorum 1539. Nr. 41. Published: ETE III. 372-375. 1. He designates the executors of his will; specifies the amount due to his niece born to his sister Borbála and to his nephew by the name of Miklós. - 2. Lists his debts, the sums and the creditors, and also how he intends to settle each. - 3. Lists his heirs and the amounts due to each. - 4. Makes arrangements regarding his things, possessions, outstanding debts. - 5. He leaves the rest of his wealth to his brother Mátyás and to his children, mostly those from Mátyás' first marriage. - 6. Lists his claims toward Nádasdy and reminds King John of pending payments. The Will of István Brodarics Vác (?),' June 1539 Anno 15392 in mense lunio. [1.] Quandocunque mihi aliquid humanitus contigerit, hoc de rebus meis disponendum duxi per exsecutores meos, quos cupio esse dominum fratrem meum, dominum Matthiam Brodeiyth de Polanya, aulicum regium, item reverendum et venerabiles s dominos Thomam praepositum Quinqueecclesiensem, custodem Agriensem,3 secretarium regium, Stephanum de Buda, loannem similiter de Buda et Ambrosium Zedelyn,4 provisorem, archidiaconos et canonicos ecclesiae meae Vachyensis. Hoc libet: puellae, nepti meae ex sorore mea Barbara volo dare florenorum trecentos, vestes meas duas, quae exsecutoribus meis videbuntur. Nicolao fratri eius, quem minus ad bonam frugem io reducere potui, florenorum ducentos, sed et pecunia haec non detur ei ad manus, sed exsecutores emant ei aliquid haereditariorum, quod pro tanta pecunia emi poterint, ita tamen, quod illud non possit vendere, nec impignorare, nec ullo alio modo alienare.5 [2.] Creditores. Magnificae dominae Catherinae de Frangepanibus, relictae magnifici domini quon- 15 dam Gabrielis de Peren debeo argenti illaborati marcas XLVIII; detur ei illud argentum Kremniciense et argentum emptum ex teste reverendi quondam domini Damiani episcopi suffraganei Vaciensis,6 cum argenti Kremniciensis facit marcas XXV. Addantur 18 post marcas dei cici 1 There is no exact dating in the will, but since it was written in June 1539, Brodarics might have committed it to paper in his bishopric’s seat, Vác.- Copied or excerpted from the original will. The copier, out of habit, wrote 1540 or a year starting with 154 in the first line. Then, realising his mistake, he erased the 4 and wrote 39. This shows that it was produced in the 1540s. 3 Provost of Pécs and Custos of Eger Tamás Mindszenti. 4 Canon of Vác Ambrus Zedelin, Land Steward of the bishopric. 5 Quite probably, he is the Miklós Brodarics who is mentioned in a salvus conductus dated October 1537 (see HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 32. Konv. C, fol. 84.), and who was supposed to study in Vienna, but the will indicates that he was reluctant. 6 Suffragan Demjén managed the bishopric after János Guthi Országh died (in late 1536) until the nomination of Brodarics in mid-1537. 594
