Letter #431
Cornelis DE SCHEPPER to Ioannes DANTISCUSBrussels, 1529-06-25
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De Schepper announces the arrival in Spain of Søren Nørby, who experienced the perfidy of the Grand Duke of Muscovy [Vasily III] as well as the magnanimity of the King of Poland [Sigismund I]. Despite his hostile military activities, Nørby was well received in Vilnius by the King, the Bishop of Płock [Andrzej Krzycki] and other [Polish dignitaries]. Dantiscus is invited to equal the gesture of his King, to receive Nørby as a friend and to give him his full support.
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AAWO, AB, D.3, f. 27v
Magnifico Domino
Apud sacram
AAWO, AB, D.3, f. 27rSalutem.
Ecce, de quo toties mentionem fecimus, ad vos venit
Datum
Tuus ex animo frater et filius
[1] Apud sacram caesaream maiestatem: indication of the address “at the imperial court”, as this court was travelling at the time from Spain to Italy.
[2] Søren Nørby stayed in the Great Duchy of Moscovy from 1526 untill April 1528; then at the end of 1528, travelling through Vilnius and the lands of Ferdinand II, he reached the Habsburg Netherlands; in the middle of 1529 he moved together with the court of Charles V from Catalonia to Italy; there he died in Florence in 1530 (NØRBY).
[3] When defeated by the united forces of Denmark, Sweden and Lübeck on 24 August 1526 near Blekinge, Norby escaped to Livonia and beyond that to Muscovy. Upon his refusal to enter the service of Grand Duke Vasili III, he was kept under house arrest in Moscow for more than a year. In April 1528 he succeeded in leaving Muscovy with the help of King Ferdinand II, and eventually reached the Habsburg Netherlands. King Christian II of Oldenburg no longer accepted him in his service, and Norby spent the rest of his life in the service of Charles V (NØRBY).