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Country: [[United Kingdom]]<br>
Country: [[United Kingdom]]<br>
Campus/location : [[Cambridge]]
Campus/location : [[Cambridge]]


[[File:cam-peterhouse.jpg|center|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]]
[[File:cam-peterhouse.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]


===Official blazon===
===Official blazon===
Or, four pallets gules; on a bordure of the last eight open crowns of the first.  
Or, four pallets gules; on a bordure of the last eight open crowns of the first.  


====Origin/meaning====
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were officially granted in 1575.
The arms were officially granted in 1575.


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Peterhouse, founded in 1284 by Bishop Hugh de Balsham shows the arms of the Balsham family (pales) with a borudre of crowns. These are derived from the arms of the See of Ely, of which Hugh the Balsham was bishop at the time.
 
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|align="center"|[[File:cam-peterhouse.woc.jpg|center|300 px|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms on a [[Wills's - Arms of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges|tobacco card]], (1922)
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