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Cardinal Campeggio entertained at Otford

Campeggio was sent to England by Pope Leo X on the ostensible business of arranging a crusade against the Turks.

He arrived in England on 23rd July 1518 and held a subordinate position to Cardinal Wolsey.  detailed description of the life and times of Cardinal Campeggio can be found in The Luminarium Encyclopaedia Project: England under the Tudors.