Editing Christ's College, Cambridge (section)

==History==
[[File:Lady Margaret Christ's College Library.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Lady Margaret Beaufort]], Christ's College Library]]
Christ's College was founded by [[William Byngham]] in 1437 as God's House,<ref>{{Cite web |title=History {{!}} Christs College Cambridge |url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/about/history |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.christs.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> on land which was soon after sold to enable the enlargement of [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=A.H.|title=The Early History of Christ's College|page=13}}</ref> Byngham obtained the first royal licence for God's House in July 1439.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=A.H.|title=The Early History of Christ's College|page=24}}</ref> The college was founded to provide for the lack of grammar-school masters in England at the time,<ref>{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=A.H.|title=The Early History of Christ's College|page=37}}</ref> and the college has been described as "the first secondary-school training college on record".<ref>{{cite book|last=Leach|title=The Schools of Medieval England|page=257}}</ref> The original site of Godshouse was surrendered in 1443 to King's College. About three-quarters of [[King's College Chapel]] stands on the original site of God's House.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=A.H.|title=The Early History of Christ's College|pages=44–45}}</ref>

After the original royal licence of 1439, three more licences, two in 1442 and one in 1446, were granted before in 1448 God's House received the charter upon which the college was in fact founded.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=A.H.|title=The Early History of Christ's College|page=86}}</ref> In this charter, [[King Henry VI]] was named as the founder, and in the same year the college moved to its modern site.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=A.H.|title=The Early History of Christ's College|page=73}}</ref>

In 1505, the college was endowed by [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]], mother of [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]], and was given the name Christ's College, perhaps at the suggestion of her confessor, the Bishop [[John Fisher]].<ref name="College History">{{cite web | url = http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-life/history-christs-college | title = College History | access-date = 6 October 2015 | publisher = Christ's College, Cambridge}}</ref> The expansion in the population of the college in the 17th century led to the building, in the 1640s, of the Fellows' Building in what is now Second Court.<ref name="College History"/>