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Rome’s secret ‘papal’ mission to Scotland
IN THE late autumn of 1435 a Siena-born layman named Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini was sent by Cardinal Nicholas Albergati on an undercover mission to Scotland with orders to persuade James I to launch an attack on England and so help end the Hundred Years’ war with France. A subsidiary aim of Piccolomini’s covert mission was to restore the status of Scottish archdeacon William Croyser, who had been condemned for treason and deprived of his office in the papal courts at Florence. for more click here
