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Letter #6316

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to [Hendrik III ?] van NASSAU
s.l., [shortly after 1530-06-16]


Manuscript sources:
1points in Latin, autograph, 16th-century, BCz, 1598, p. 437 (t.p.)

 

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BCz, 1598, p. 437

probably Hendrik III of Nassau-Breda (*1483 – †1538), son of Count Johann V of Nassau-Dillenburg and Elisabeth of Hessen, married to Mencia de Mendoza, Marquess of Zenete, daughter and heiress of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, first Marquis of Zenete; Count of Nassau; from 1499 in the service of Archduke Philip of Habsburg as his advisor and military commander in the wars against France and Gueders (1507, 1514), 1515-1522 Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland; 1521 Grand Chamberlain of Charles V of Habsburg (from 1522 to 1529 at the Spanish court), in 1530 followed Charles V to the coronation in Bologna, and attended the Diet of Augsburg (CE, vol. 3, p. 5)Domino de Nassauprobably Hendrik III of Nassau-Breda (*1483 – †1538), son of Count Johann V of Nassau-Dillenburg and Elisabeth of Hessen, married to Mencia de Mendoza, Marquess of Zenete, daughter and heiress of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, first Marquis of Zenete; Count of Nassau; from 1499 in the service of Archduke Philip of Habsburg as his advisor and military commander in the wars against France and Gueders (1507, 1514), 1515-1522 Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland; 1521 Grand Chamberlain of Charles V of Habsburg (from 1522 to 1529 at the Spanish court), in 1530 followed Charles V to the coronation in Bologna, and attended the Diet of Augsburg (CE, vol. 3, p. 5)

Reddendae ungulae.

Exponenda omnia, salutandus et rogandus, ut ea inculcet maiestati caesareae.

Item, quod cum marchione Georgio esse cogor non ob Lutheranismum, sed negotium etc.

Item, quod res Prutenas attinet et ducem Prussiae, ne quid statuatur me inscio etc.

Item, quod rex meus miserit ad vayavodam, si posset componi negotium etc.

Item, quod iussus sum hic manere et servire Charles V of Habsburg (*1500 – †1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily, King of the Romans (1519-1530), Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation (elected 1519, crowned 1530, abdicated 1556); son of Philip I the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castilecaes(ari)Charles V of Habsburg (*1500 – †1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily, King of the Romans (1519-1530), Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation (elected 1519, crowned 1530, abdicated 1556); son of Philip I the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile etc.(?), episcopatus etc.

Item, quod quidam huc venerit a Laski cum litteris ex Hungaria, quod dixi Cornelio etc.(?)

Item, quod vayavoda nobis cum Turcis minatur et, si intellexerit aliquas(?) copias fieri, quibus non posset resistere, se omnes incolas tota Hungaria destructa abducturos in Turciam etc.

Item, quod contra regem meum nihil aliud credatur, quam quod Christiano principi convenit etc. et bono amico, et quod igitur me hic contra meam voluntatem reliquerit etc.