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Letter #114

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN
Munich, 1518-11-24


Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, address in another hand in German, ONB, Cod. 13.597, f. 14r-v

Prints:
1CEID 2/1 No. 10, p. 93 (in extenso; English register)

 

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ONB, Cod. 13.597, f. 14v

Dem edlenn und gestrengen hern Sigmund von Herberstein (*1486 – †1566), diplomat in the service of Emperor Maximilian I, Charles V, and Roman King Ferdinand I, writer and historian. In 1517 sent to Poland to conduct the marriage between King Sigismund I Jagiellon and Duchess Bona Sforza d'Aragona, and to Moscow to arrange a truce between the Grand Duchy of Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 1515 member of the Council of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1515-1553 carried out many diplomatic missions (in 1517 and 1526 he was twice an imperial envoy at the Muscovy court)Sigmundt von HerberstainSigmund von Herberstein (*1486 – †1566), diplomat in the service of Emperor Maximilian I, Charles V, and Roman King Ferdinand I, writer and historian. In 1517 sent to Poland to conduct the marriage between King Sigismund I Jagiellon and Duchess Bona Sforza d'Aragona, and to Moscow to arrange a truce between the Grand Duchy of Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 1515 member of the Council of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1515-1553 carried out many diplomatic missions (in 1517 and 1526 he was twice an imperial envoy at the Muscovy court) ritter, Maximilian I of Habsburg (*1459 – †1519), from 1486 King of the Romans, actual ruler of the Empire from the death of Frederick III (1493), 1508-1519 Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation; son of Emperor Frederick III and Eleanor of PortugalRomischer kayserlicher maiestetMaximilian I of Habsburg (*1459 – †1519), from 1486 King of the Romans, actual ruler of the Empire from the death of Frederick III (1493), 1508-1519 Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation; son of Emperor Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal radt etc. zu eigenen handenn.

ONB, Cod. 13.597, f. 14r

Magnifice Domine, commendationem plurimam.

Nescio, quomodo exordiar contra Magnificentiam Vestram, quae contra promissam, ut tamen modestius agam, ex Moldorff[1] discessit et nihil litterarum vel commissionis per aliquem mihi reliquit. De quo alio tempore latius. Impraesentiarum coegit me ad scribendum, quod non ivi in Freysing, sed per Munich (München, Monachium, Monacum), city in southern Germany, capital of BavariaMonchenMunich (München, Monachium, Monacum), city in southern Germany, capital of Bavaria et accepi litteras Vestras[2] cum pecuniis, quas hactenus duxi. Dabo operam, ut hinc ad fratrem Vestrum[3] perducantur. Interea rogo me Magnificentia Vestra ex favore suo non dimittat. Totus enim Vester et si dici potest Vestrissimus sum. Cui me plurimum commendo. Ex Augsburg (Augusta Vindelicorum), city in Germany, BavariaAugustaAugsburg (Augusta Vindelicorum), city in Germany, Bavaria de rebus nostris pluribus agemus.

[1] Mühldorf am Inn, northwest of Salzburg and east of Munich. It is hard to tell whether Dantiscus met Herberstein there. On November 1,1518 Herberstein met with Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck, from where the emperor traveled towards Linz via Wels (where he died). On November 9, in a letter to Herberstein from Kufstein, the emperor ordered him to be in Mühldorf on November 19, to meet there with Cardinal Matthäus Lang (1468-1540), coadjutor of the archbishop of Salzburg, and on November 16 ordered Herberstein to go to Salzburg. The delivery of the second letter (or instruction) could have been the reason for Herberstein’s sudden departure from Mühldorf (see Herberstein 1855, p. 136-137, 139-141). Dantiscus reached Mühldorf after November 17, 1518, the date when the emperor issued him a guarantee of safe passage (litterae passus) in Gmunden am Traunsee Oberösterreich), for the mission to Spain to Charles I von Habsburg (see Pociecha, II, p. 212).

[2] Unknown letter.

[3] Most probably Georg von Herberstein, see letter No. 3, footnote 1.