<description>&lt;p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Field of the Cloth of Gold&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;French&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Camp du Drap d'Or&lt;/em&gt;, pronounced &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;[kɑ̃ dy dʁa d‿ɔʁ]&lt;/a&gt;) was a &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_(meeting)" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;summit meeting&lt;/a&gt; between King &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Henry VIII of England&lt;/a&gt; and King &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I_of_France" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Francis I of France&lt;/a&gt; from 7 to 24 June 1520. Held at &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinghem" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Balinghem&lt;/a&gt;, between &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardres" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Ardres&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%AEnes" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Guînes&lt;/a&gt; in the English &lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Calais" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Pale of Calais&lt;/a&gt;, it was an opulent display of wealth by both kings.&lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_the_Cloth_of_Gold#cite_note-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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The Field of the Cloth of Gold (French: Camp du Drap d'Or, pronounced [kɑ̃ dy dʁa d‿ɔʁ]) was a summit meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France from 7 to 24 June 1520. Held at Balinghem, between Ardres in France and Guînes in the English Pale of Calais, it was an opulent display of wealth by both kings.[1]