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Letter #5005

Albrecht I von Hohenzollern-Ansbach to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Königsberg (Królewiec), 1540-08-13
            received Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński), 1540-08-16

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in German, BCz, 1606, p. 499-500
2office copy in German, GStA PK, XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, Ostpr. Fol., 67, p. 344-345

Prints:
1HARTMANN 1525-1550 No. 691, p. 372 (German register)

 

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Dem erwirdigenn unnserm besondernn liebenn freun[t] unnd nachparnn herrenn Ioannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Johannes Flachsbinder) (*1485 – †1548), eminent diplomat and humanist in the service of the Jagiellons, neo-Latin poet; 1530-1537 Bishop of Kulm; 1537-1548 Bishop of ErmlandJohansen bischoffenn zu Ermland (Warmia, Varmia), diocese and ecclesiastical principality in northeastern Poland, 1466-1772 within the Kingdom of Poland, Royal PrussiaEr[m]land[t]Ermland (Warmia, Varmia), diocese and ecclesiastical principality in northeastern Poland, 1466-1772 within the Kingdom of Poland, Royal PrussiaIoannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Johannes Flachsbinder) (*1485 – †1548), eminent diplomat and humanist in the service of the Jagiellons, neo-Latin poet; 1530-1537 Bishop of Kulm; 1537-1548 Bishop of Ermland

Unnsere freuntlich dinnst zuvornn. /

Erwirdiger inn Gott besonder lieber freundt unnd nachpar.

Wir habenn Euer Lieb vorbitlich schreibenn, / so dieselb vor denn erbarnn unsernn lieben getreuenn Gabriel Jagreuter Gabrielenn JagenreutherGabriel Jagreuter auff Euer Lieb underthanns des erbarnn unsers liebenn besondernn ghilip patrittenn anregenn / ahnn uns geschriebenn / empfangenn / unnd daraus welcher massenn unns Euer Lieb das wir ihnenn mit unserm vehlichenn gleidt vorsehenn wolten bithen thun verstandenn. / Nhun ist nicht ahne das die that nicht vast kostlich wolthenn auch ihme dem Gabriel Jagreuter JagenreutherGabriel Jagreuter unserm underthan woll gonnenn, / das ehr sich inn dem basser vorgesehenn unnd sich ihnn solche unsicherheit selbst nicht gesetzt. /

Dieweil es aber nhu geschehenn / mus, wir es dem almechtigenn bevholenn sein lassenn. / Donebenn haben Euer Lieb als das hochvorstendige zubedenckenn, / das uns unsernn vonn Gott vorliehenenn furstlichenn ampt nach nit anders geburenn wil, / dan denn armen so wol als den reichenn ihn gleichem schutz unnd schirm zuhaltenn. / Derwegenn konnenn Euer Lieb bey sich selbst erachtenn, / auch aus der gelegenheit des fhals vermerckenn, / das wir derselbenn bith auff dismhal (wiewol wir sonstenn Euer Lieb ihnn allenn zimlichenn gernn wilfarenn) gentzlichenn stadt gebenn nicht khonnenn. / Nichts weniger aber seint wir gleichwol auff Euer Lieb anlangenn gewilt / unns nach gelegenheit gegen dem gedachtenn Gabriel Jagreuter JagenreutherGabriel Jagreuter umb Euer Lieb vorbith willenn dermassenn zuerzeigenn, / darab Euer Lieb ehr unnd die seinenn / zusvurenn, / das denselben bithenn / nicht wenig sunder vil bey unns stadt habenn, / freuntlich unnd nachparlich bittende, / das wir derselben auff dismhal nit gewilfart bei sich / angesehen die schwere der sachenn / entschuldigt nhemen wolle. / Dann warnn wir Euer Lieb vil nachparlichs willens zuerzaigenn wissenn / seint wir geneigt / unnd habenn auch Euer Lieb (die wir hiemit dem almechtigenn inn seinenn schutz bevhelenn) dis auff ihr schreibenn nicht vorhaltenn wollenn. /

Vonn Gots 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 marggraff zu BrandenburgBrandenburgkBrandenburg, ihnn Prussia, region in central Europe, bordered by Pomerania, Poland, Lithuania and Livonia. From 1466 Prussia was divided into Royal Prussia (Prussia Regalis), which was a part of the Kingdom of Poland, and Teutonic Prussia (Prussia Ordinis Theutonici) – covering the remnants of the former territory of the Teutonic Order’s state in Prussia. In 1525, the Order’s last Grand Master, Albrecht von Hohenzollern, converted to Lutheranism and became the first lay duke in former Teutonic Prussia (dux in Prussia), which from then on was called Ducal Prussia (Prussia Ducalis). At that time, as a result of the treaty of Cracow, Ducal Prussia became a fief of the kings of PolandPreussenPrussia, region in central Europe, bordered by Pomerania, Poland, Lithuania and Livonia. From 1466 Prussia was divided into Royal Prussia (Prussia Regalis), which was a part of the Kingdom of Poland, and Teutonic Prussia (Prussia Ordinis Theutonici) – covering the remnants of the former territory of the Teutonic Order’s state in Prussia. In 1525, the Order’s last Grand Master, Albrecht von Hohenzollern, converted to Lutheranism and became the first lay duke in former Teutonic Prussia (dux in Prussia), which from then on was called Ducal Prussia (Prussia Ducalis). At that time, as a result of the treaty of Cracow, Ducal Prussia became a fief of the kings of Poland, zu StettinStetinStettin, PomeraniaPomernnPomerania, 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 WendenWendenWenden herzogAlbrecht 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 zu Nurmbergk / unnd furst zu RügenRugennRügen.