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![[Flag of Trinity College]](../images/g/gb_outri.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 9 February 2019External links:
The flag is a banner of arms of the College - see
http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/college/archive/ or
http://www.heraldryshop.biz/catalogue/tobaccocards/wills/willsoxcam_clip_image039.jpg.
It is described at
http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/ocltrin2.html as "Party per pale or and
azure, on a chevron between three griffins heads erased four fleurs-de-lys, all
counterchanged of the field."
Jan Mertens, 12 July
2008
Full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of
Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)
The flag is is a banner of arms (ratio 1:2).
Coat of Arms:
Shield
parted per pale Or an Azure, on a chevron between three griffins’ heads tongued
Gules erased four fleurs-de-lys, all counter-changed.
Meaning: Durham College
was founded in about 1286. It was for the Benedictine Monks of Durham and was a
cell of that Monastery. In 1544 it was suppressed and in 1555 Trinity College
was founded by Sir Thomas Pope, aided by his wife, and they used the old
buildings of Durham College. Trinity uses the arms of its founder.
Sources: John P. Brooke-Little: Oxford University and its Colleges, Oxford
1962(?), available online at
https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/oxford-university-and-its-colleges/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,_Oxford.
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 9 February 2019
Current
![[Blade]](../images/g/gb@outri).gif)
image by
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 March 2019
Blade is blue with a white
stripe.
Source: (for current versions):
https://www.reddit.com
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 March 2019
