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![[Flag of University College]](../images/g/gb_ouuni.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 February 2019External links:
The flag is a banner of arms (ratio 1:2).
Source:
http://www.ucbc.org.uk/videos/ (in
2012 eights video)
Coat of Arms:
Azure, a cross patonce Or between four
martlets Or.
This is the senior College of the University. A legend arose in
the 14th century that the college had been founded by King Alfred in 872. In
fact it was founded by William Archdeacon of Durham in 1249. The College
originally bore the arms of the founder as follows: Or, a fleur-de-lys Azure,
each leaf charged with a mullet Or.
Today the College uses the arms attributed
to King Alfred and Edward the Confessor, namely. The number of birds varies
between four and sometimes five, also the shape of the cross, but as the arms
are hypothetical the matter would seem to be of little importance. A cross patonce is intermediate between a cross patty and a cross fleury, in case of the
college arms the cross is sometimes mistaken as fleury.
Source: 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/University_College,_Oxford.
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 11 February 2019
Current
![[Blade]](../images/g/gb@ouuni).gif)
image by
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 March 2019
Blade is blue with a yellow cross
patoncy, i.e. the flag pattern without martlets.
Source: (for current versions):
https://www.reddit.com
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 March 2019
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