Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1537
280 Manuscript used: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 31. Konv. C, fol. 120,- Published: Károlyi Árpád, Okiratok és levelek a nagyváradi béke történetéhez 1536-153S. Történelmi Tár, 1878. 760-761. King John instructs Brodarics and Frangepán to go to Vác to discuss new considerations brought up by Johann Wese. There, they can consuit his councillors on the standpoint to he taken at the talks. János Szapolyai to Ferenc Frangepán and István Brodarics [Várad], before 22 July 1537' Ioannes Dei gratia rex Hungáriáé, Dalmatiae, Croatiae etc. Reverendissimi in Christo Patres Fideles nobis sincere Dilecti. Qua instmctione Thomas custos Agriensis1 2 3 a Dominationibus Vestris ad nos venit, intelleximus. Intellige- bamus dominum oratorem4 nova instructione venisse.5 Si tamen ea fuerit nova instruc- 5 tio, ut nonnulla etiam alia, quae antea in tractatibus non fuerunt, innovarentur, operae pretium esse existimamus, ut consilio quoque Dominationum Vestrarum in tantis rebus transigendis utamur. Hortamur itaque Dominationes Vestras eisdemque committimus, ut saltem Waciam usque descendant, ubi etiam alii consiliarii nostri de omnibus his rebus, tanquam personaliter interessemus, cum eisdem agere possint.6 Nam et laborum io Dominationum Vestrarum hoc praesertim tempore, maxime autem vestri, Domine Archiepiscope,7 quem valetudinarium esse intelleximus, rationem habemus. Quandoquidem si Dominationes Vestrae huc ad nos descenderent ex longinquitate itineris et magnam subirent fatigam et negotia tanti itineris tempore prolongarentur. Poterit autem interea dominus orator in loco sibi commodo stare, is loannes rex manu propria. 1 The extant document is unfortunately undated. Since Provost Tamás Mindszenti, in his letter below dated Eger, 22 July, says that he has sent Szapolyai’s letter to Brodarics and Frangepán, this letter must have been written before 22 July, presumably in Várad, where Szapolyai’s court stayed at the time. 2 The letter was preserved as an attachment to Johann Wese’s letter to Ferdinand on 26 July 1537, so it is not the original but a copy made by Wese. •’ Mindszenti Tamás, Custos of Eger. 4 Johann Wese, Archbishop of Lund, who was commissioned by Charles V to negotiate with Szapolyai’s envoys. 5 The instruction for Wese said that the primary condition for making peace is the returning of Kassa and other territories occupied in late 1536. Brodarics, however, was not authorised to negotiate this, so he had to ask for new instructions. See Károlyi Árpád, Okiratok és levelek... 729. 6 Wese thought that Brodarics and Frangepán were ordered to Vác only to avoid trouble in Körmöcbánya when Szapolyai’s troops invade Upper Hungary. See Károlyi Árpád, Okiratok és levelek... 758-759. 7 Ferenc Frangepán, Archbishop of Kalocsa, elected Bishop of Eger. 501
