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![[Clare College]](../images/g/gb_cu-cl.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuvŕlkin, 5 September 2009
The banner of arms of Clare College, University of Cambridge (GB) may be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidalderson/2447792187/, a Flickr photo made
by David Alderson, uploaded on 27 Apr 2008. Another sighting is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/descensus_in_cuniculi_cavum/2221040706/, a
Flickr photo made by “london_emigre”, uploaded on 26 Jan 2008.
The blazon
was found here (grateful quote follows):
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66644, “Or three
chevrons gules (for Clare) impaling or a cross gules (for de Burgh) all within a
border sable with golden drops.”
An old rendition of the arms can be
found at
http://www.ngw.nl/catalogue/tobaccocards/wills/willsoxcam_clip_image003.jpg.
According to the college’s official website, Clare is the oldest but one
of the Cambridge University colleges (http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/index.html):
“(…) founded in 1326, and generously endowed a few years later by Lady Elizabeth
de Clare (Lady de Burgh), a granddaughter of King Edward I (…). In 1336 King
Edward III (…) granted licence ‘to his cousin Elizabeth de Burgo’ to establish a
collegium (the word originally meant ‘a corporation of scholars’…) although it
was in the first instance referred to nonspecifically as ‘the House of the
University of Cambridge’, it became known as Clare Hall as early as 1339 (the
present simplified title, ‘Clare’, dates from 1856).”
Jan Mertens, 16
April 2009
![[Clare College]](../images/g/gb_cu!cl.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuvŕlkin, 5 September 2009
At
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clare_crest.png is the image I used
as a base to make the image at the top of this page. There seems to be some
representations of these arms showing white/Argent drops. At
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Hall%2C_Cambridge, the colors of Clare
College are given as black and yellow, taken from the arms.
António Martins-Tuvŕlkin,
5 September 2009
