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Letter #813

Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Vienna, 1532-08-05

Manuscript sources:

1	fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 243, p. 207-208

Auxiliary sources:

1	register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8247 (TK 9), f. 115

Prints:

1	AT 14 No. 378, p. 571-572 (in extenso; Polish register)
2	CEID 2/1 No. 24, p. 132 (in extenso; English register)

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Bcz 243, p. 208

Reverendissimo Domino, domino Ioannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Hans 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⌊Ioanni DantiscoIoannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Hans 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⌋, episcopo Culmensi etc. domino suo gratioso et observandissimo

Bcz 243, p. 207

Reverendissime Domine, domine observandissime. Post servitiorum meorum commendationem.

Ad cf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to [Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN] Sitzendorf an der Schmida, 1532-07-16, CIDTC IDL 6253⌊litterascf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to [Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN] Sitzendorf an der Schmida, 1532-07-16, CIDTC IDL 6253⌋ et mandatum Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationis feci diligentiam meam ita, ut caniculam illam deperditam spero in brevi me habiturum[1]. Quam mox Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi transmittam demum latius ad litteras Illius responsurus. Interim me Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi denuo commendo.

Ex Vienna (Wien, Vienna), city in eastern Austria, on the Danube river⌊ViennaVienna (Wien, Vienna), city in eastern Austria, on the Danube river⌋, 5 Augusti anno 1532.

Eiusdem Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationis deditissimus Sigmund von Herberstein (*1486 – †1566), diplomat in the service of Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V and of Ferdinand I, King of the Romans; writer and historian; in 1517 sent to Poland to promote 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; from 1515 member of the Imperial Council; 1515–1553 carried out numerous diplomatic missions, including two missions as imperial envoy to the Muscovite court, in 1517 and again in 1526⌊Sigismundus ab HerberstainSigmund von Herberstein (*1486 – †1566), diplomat in the service of Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V and of Ferdinand I, King of the Romans; writer and historian; in 1517 sent to Poland to promote 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; from 1515 member of the Imperial Council; 1515–1553 carried out numerous diplomatic missions, including two missions as imperial envoy to the Muscovite court, in 1517 and again in 1526⌋, liber[2].

[1] Cf. cf. Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN to Ioannes DANTISCUS Vienna, 1532-08-22, CIDTC IDL 819⌊IDL 819cf. Sigmund von HERBERSTEIN to Ioannes DANTISCUS Vienna, 1532-08-22, CIDTC IDL 819⌋.

[2] The Latin equivalent of the hereditary title der Frei that Ferdinand I granted to the Herbersteins on November 18, 1531 (see cf. Sigmund Herberstein, Sigmunds von Herberstein Selbstbiographie, ed. by Th. G. von Karajan, Wien, 1855, series: Fontes Rerum Austriacarum I Abteilung, Scriptores Band 1 ⌊HERBERSTEIN 1855cf. Sigmund Herberstein, Sigmunds von Herberstein Selbstbiographie, ed. by Th. G. von Karajan, Wien, 1855, series: Fontes Rerum Austriacarum I Abteilung, Scriptores Band 1 ⌋, p. 295-298).