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Letter #4711

Albrecht I von Hohenzollern-Ansbach to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Sochaczew, 1548-08-21
            received -, 1548-08-25

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in German, in secretary's hand, author's signature, AAWO, AB, D. 97, f. 219

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8250 (TK 12), f. 571

 

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Unnsere freuntliche dinst zuvornn.

Erwirdiger inn Got, besonder lieber Freundt unnd Nachbar. /

Wir habenn dem ernnvhestenn, achtbarnn unnd hochgelerthten unnserm canzler, / rathe unnd liebenn getrewenn, / Johann von Kreytzen (Hans von Kreytzen) (*1516 – †1575), doctor of civil and canon law; displaced by the "new advisors", he settled in Ermland; 1535 envoy of Duke Albrecht von Hohenzollern to the Crown Diet in Cracow; 1536 ducal commissioner for affairs of delimitation between Prussia and Masovia; 1536-1575 Chancellor to Duke Albrecht (SZORC 1990, p. 89, 329, 345; HARTMANN 1525-1550, No. 436, 437, 574; MAŁŁEK 1967, p. 121 footnote 40, 165)Hansenn vonn KreytzenJohann von Kreytzen (Hans von Kreytzen) (*1516 – †1575), doctor of civil and canon law; displaced by the "new advisors", he settled in Ermland; 1535 envoy of Duke Albrecht von Hohenzollern to the Crown Diet in Cracow; 1536 ducal commissioner for affairs of delimitation between Prussia and Masovia; 1536-1575 Chancellor to Duke Albrecht (SZORC 1990, p. 89, 329, 345; HARTMANN 1525-1550, No. 436, 437, 574; MAŁŁEK 1967, p. 121 footnote 40, 165), auferlegt etzliche gehaime gewerbe vonn unserntwegenn / vertraulicher wolmeynung ann Ewer Lieb gelangenn zwlassenn. / Bithenn derwegenn freuntlichenn Ewer Lieb iner desselbenn seÿnes anbringens hörenn, und ime disfals / gleich unserr aigenenn personn volkomenn glaubenn zustellen, sich auch uff sein anbringen unserr tragendenn freuntlichenn zuvorsicht nach ertzaigen wol das seint wir umb Ewer Lieb mit aller willigenn freuntschaft zuvordinen urputigk.

Datum inn eyl, Sochaczew, town in central Poland, MasoviaZachetzovaSochaczew, town in central Poland, Masovia, denn XXI Augusti anno etc. im XLVIII. /

Vonn Gottes gnadenn Albrecht I von Hohenzollern-Ansbach (Albrecht von Brandenburg) (*1490 – †1568), 1511-1525 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order; from 1525 to his death Duke in Prussia as a liegeman of the Polish king; son of Friedrich V of Brandenburg der Ältere and Sophia Jagiellon (daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon), nephew of Sigismund I, King of Poland; founder of the university in Königsberg (1544)Albrecht, der elderr marggraff zw BrandenburgBrandenburgkBrandenburg, inn Ducal PrussiaPreussennDucal Prussia, zw StettinStettinStettin, PomeraniaPommernnPomerania, der Kashubia (Kaszuby, Cassubia, Cassubae), region in Gdańsk Pomerania and eastern part of Western Pomerania, inhabited by an autochthon Slavic people – the KashubiansCassubennKashubia (Kaszuby, Cassubia, Cassubae), region in Gdańsk Pomerania and eastern part of Western Pomerania, inhabited by an autochthon Slavic people – the Kashubians unnd WendenWendennWenden hertzogkAlbrecht I von Hohenzollern-Ansbach (Albrecht von Brandenburg) (*1490 – †1568), 1511-1525 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order; from 1525 to his death Duke in Prussia as a liegeman of the Polish king; son of Friedrich V of Brandenburg der Ältere and Sophia Jagiellon (daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon), nephew of Sigismund I, King of Poland; founder of the university in Königsberg (1544), burggraff zw Nuremberg (Nürnberg, Norimberga), city in Germany, BavariaNurmbergkNuremberg (Nürnberg, Norimberga), city in Germany, Bavaria und furst zw RügenRugenRügen manu propria subscripsit