[1.] Dignata est Vestra Maiestas his diebus superiore dare ad me litteras, 2 ut in facto ecclesiae Plocensis pro voto ac desiderio Maiestatis Vestrae apud Sanctissimum Dominum Nostrum elaborarem, miserat etiam Maiestas Vestra binas alias litteras ad Sanctitatem Domini Nostri, alteras gratulatorias, 3 alteras de indulgentiis et officio collectorio. 4 [ERROR: no reftable :]9  After the death of Bishop of Płock Erazm Ciołek the King of Poland wanted to install Rafał Leszczyński, Bishop of Przemiśl into the vacant position. However, Hadrian VI did not wait for Sigismund’s recommendation but appointed Johann Albrecht, brother of Albrecht von Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order which had a hostile relationship with Poland. (Compare: AT VI. 154–155.) The Polish ruler protested angrily. Since neither party would budge, a one-year-long diplomatic struggle began. Brodarics played an important part of its settlement. More on this: Kasza Péter, Egy magyar diplomata lengyel szolgálatban. Újabb források Brodarics István rmai követi működéséhez., Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények, 2009, 593–605. The same in English: A Hungarian diplomat in Polish service New sources for the functioning of István Brodarics as ambassador in Rome, Camoenae Hungaricae, 2010, 61–73. manuscript: BK 223 fol. 83–84. No doubt, it is the letter by Sigismund in October 1522. 3  Sigismund greeted Hadrian VI for his election in a letter dated in Vilnius 22 October 1522. Compare: AT VI. 130. [ERROR: no reftable :]1  Another

Ego non solum omnes has litteras Maiestatis Vestrae Sanctissimo Domino Nostro exhibui, sed in his negotiis ex sententia Maiestatis Vestrae obtinendis, quantum in me fuit, sedulam operam dedi. Quid facturus sit pontifex, et quale responsum ad petita Maiestatis Vestrae dederit, superfluum est me pluribus verbis Maiestati Vestrae explicare, cum ex eius litteris, 5 quas cum domino Anthonio Fukaro, 6 diligentissimo servitore Maiestatis Vestrae ad eandem mittimus, sit omnia plene cognitura.