Pembroke College (Cambridge University)

PEMBROKE COLLEGE (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY)

Country: United Kingdom
Campus/location : Cambridge

Official blazon

Barry of ten argent and azure, an orle of five martlets gules dimidiated with paly vair and gules, on a chief Or a label of five points throughout azure.

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially recorded in 1684.

Pembroke College, founded in 1347 by Mary, daughter of Guy de St. Pol and widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke combines the arms of De Valence (bars), dimidiated with the arms of St. Pol (vair).

The arms on a tobacco card, (1922)

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