Editing Brasenose College, Oxford (section)

===Foundation===
[[File:The Brazen Nose knocker.jpg|thumb|left|The original door knocker, now hanging in the college's dining hall. (A copy is on a door in [[Stamford School]].)]]

The history of Brasenose College, Oxford stretches back to 1509, when the college was founded on the site of Brasenose Hall, a medieval [[Academic halls of the University of Oxford|academic hall]] whose name is first mentioned in 1279.<ref name="bncwebhistory">{{cite web | title=A concise history of Brasenose | url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/history/212-college-history/397-a-brief-history-of-brasenose | access-date=26 May 2021 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113161201/https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/history/212-college-history/397-a-brief-history-of-brasenose | archive-date=13 January 2021}}</ref> Its name is believed to derive from the name of a brass or bronze knocker that adorned the hall's door.<ref>{{cite web | title= The Oddest Name in Oxford | url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/history/212-college-history/396-the-oddest-name-in-oxford-7318115 | publisher=Brasenose College | access-date=6 October 2024}}</ref>

The college was associated with Lancashire and Cheshire, the county origins of its two founders – the [[Bishop of Lincoln]], [[William Smyth]] and [[Richard Sutton (lawyer)|Sir Richard Sutton]] – a link which was maintained strongly until the latter half of the twentieth century.<ref name="bncwebhistory"/><ref>Buchan (1898). pp.&nbsp;1–6.</ref><ref>Crook (2008). p.&nbsp;422.</ref> The first principals navigated Brasenose, with its Catholic sympathisers, through the [[Reformation]] and continuing religious reforms.<ref>Crook (2008) pp.&nbsp;27–29.</ref>

Most of Brasenose favoured the [[Cavalier|Royalist]] side during the [[English Civil War]], although it produced notable generals and clergy on both sides.<ref>Crook (2008). p. 50.</ref>

The library and chapel were completed in the mid-17th century, despite Brasenose suffering continuing financial problems.<ref>Crook (2008). pp.&nbsp;45–9.</ref><ref>Buchan (1898). p.&nbsp;81.</ref>
[[File:Brasenose College from Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata.jpg|left|thumb|An illustration of Brasenose in 1674]]