King's Hall (Cambridge)
King's Hall , founded in 1317, was the second college after Peterhouse and before Michaelhouse , from which the University of Cambridge emerged . It was founded on July 7, 1317 by King Edward II on the advice of Archbishop and Lord Chancellor John Hotham , to train clerks for Edward's government. Edward III. gave the college 1,337 letter patents.
Henry VIII united the college with Michaelhouse when the king expropriated abbeys and monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church and confiscated their lands. Together with seven inns from Physwick , this resulted in Trinity College at Cambridge in 1547 , which has remained one of the largest and richest English colleges to this day. It is believed that Heinrich wanted to create a large college with new architecture to compete with Christ Church in neighboring Oxford . However, he died a few weeks after unification.
King's Hall was located in the northern part of what would later become the Great Court of Trinity College. The floor plan of the Great Courtyard was largely designed by Thomas Nevile . There is a building from that period near the chapel with some of the most popular student apartments. These usually only receive higher semesters with special academic merits. The clock tower of the King's Hall has been relocated and is now located near the large entrance gate of Trinity, which still bears the name of the King's Hall.
literature
- Alan B. Cobban: The King's Hall Within the University of Cambridge in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-521-02186-3
- George Macaulay Trevelyan: Trinity College - An Historical Sketch.