Melchior Balassa

Melchior Balassa Eorl (Ungerisc: Balassa Menyhért) wæs Ungerisc ealdorman, heretoga and wealdsecend þære middelyldum.

Melchiores Balassan licrest

He wæs geboren on 30 Blot. 1510 in Balassagyarmatine on Ungerum and forþferde in Uigenna, on 9 Sol. 1568. He wæs Eorl of Hontscire and Barsscire, Donualandes heafodman.

Æfter Mohács Beadwe gecoren Ungaralandes niwne Cyning ac hie wæron bedæled. Melchior fultumode Iohannes Zapolyan. Æfter Iohannes deaþ fultumode Melchior Eorl Iohannes gewinna, se wæs Ferdinand of Habsbyrig, and Ferdinand Cyning sealde him Barsscires Bregorice.

In 1544 wergode Melchior Levaburg wið Turcas. Noðylæs Melchior Eorl reafode his agan lande and Ferdinand adraf hine on Seofenburgum. Ferdinand of Habsbyrig and Iohannes Siegmund Zapolya ellencampoden for Ungera cynedom and Melchior Eorl seald his holdscipe to bæm healfum þærbe weard he welig. He stearf in Uigennan, Habsbyrig stol in 1568.