Date:

Jun 7 1520

Description:

One of the 7 knights of the Gloucestershire continent appointed to attend Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the site of a meeting between Henry and Francis I of France. Each king tried to outshine the other, with dazzling tents and clothes, huge feasts, music, jousting, and games. The tents and the costumes displayed so much cloth of gold, an expensive fabric woven with silk and gold thread, that the meeting site was named after it. In a subsequent record Denys's name is shown as erased from the list of those attending the King, with the words "With the Queen" added, suggesting he'd been transferred into the retinue of Katharine of Aragon.

Location:

Calais, France

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