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King's Hall / Aula Regis
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King Edward II
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(merged to form Trinity College in 1546)
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was once one of the constituent colleges of
Cambridge , and the 2nd to be founded, in
1317 , after
Peterhouse, Cambridge . King's Hall was established by
King Edward II to provide chancery clerks for his administration, and was very rich compared to Michaelhouse, which occupied the southern area of Great Court.
It no longer exists, as it was combined with
Michaelhouse in the late 16th century by
King Henry VIII , as one of his last acts. At the time, the king had been wiping out and seizing church lands from abbeys and monasteries. It is thought that the king had great plans to create a college to rival Oxford's
Christ Church College with great new architecture, but he died a few weeks after the college was created. The layout of
Great Court is mainly due to
Thomas Nevile , a master of Trinity. The universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, being both religious institutions and quite rich, expected to be next in line. The king duly passed an
Act Of Parliament that allowed him to suppress (and confiscate the property of) any college he wished.
The universities of
Oxford and
Cambridge remained predominated by the religious orders until well into the 19th century - this was one of the driving aspects for the setting up of secular institutions, e.g.
University College, London to cater for dissenters.
The universities used their contacts to plead with his 6th wife,
Catherine Parr . The queen persuaded her husband not to close them down, but to create a new college. The king did not want to use royal funds, so he instead combined 2 colleges (King's Hall and
Michaelhouse ) and 7 hostels (Physwick (formerly part of
Gonville And Caius College, Cambridge ), Gregory's, Ovyng's, Catherine's, Garratt, Margaret's, and Tyler's) to form
Trinity in
1547 . This, combined with lands confiscated from the Church, caused Trinity to be the richest and biggest college.
King's Hall was located in what is now the northern section of
Great Court , Trinity College, Cambridge, and there still stands an original building from that time. It is found off Great Court next to the Chapel, and contains some of the most coveted rooms in the College, generally held only by long-standing fellows of great academic merit. Unfortunately, the last buildings of
Michaelhouse were recorded as being knocked down with the completion of the southern section of Great Court.
Today, Trinity remains the largest and richest of all the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.
''This article draws from 'Trinity College - An Historical Sketch' by
GM Trevelyan , along with information from various individuals associated with the College and the University.''
