The Hospital of Saint John is founded in Cambridge in 1135, on the future site of St. John's College.

Roger of Wendover wrote shortly after the foundation of the University of Cambridge that it could trace its origins to a crime committed in 1209.

Although not always a reliable source, the detail given in his contemporaneous writings lends them credence.

Two Oxford scholars, convicted of the murder or manslaughter of a woman, had been hanged by the town authorities with the assent of King John.

The University of Oxford had gone into voluntary suspension in protest at the hanging, and scholars migrated to a number of other locations, including the preexisting school at Cambridge (Cambridge had been recorded in 1201 as a “school” rather than as a university when John Grim held the office of Master there).

These exile Oxford scholars (postgraduate researchers by present day terminology) in 1209 start Cambridge’s life as a university.

…attacks eastwards around London to Cambridge to separate the rebel-held areas of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

From here, …

Peterhouse, the oldest collegiate foundation of the University of Cambridge in England, is established by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

Edmund of Langley, like so many medieval princes, had gained his identifying nickname from his birthplace: Kings Langley in Hertfordshire.

The fifth son of Edward III, he had been created Earl of Cambridge at twenty-one; twenty-four years later, in 1385, Edmund had been created Duke of York.

He had died at sixty-three on August 1, 1402; his dukedom has passed to his eldest son, Edward.

Edmund is thus the founder of the House of York, but it is through the marriage of his younger son, Richard, to his cousin Anne Mortimer, whose family is descended from Lionel of Antwerp, duke of Clarence, Edward's third son, that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses is to make its claim on the English throne.

A papal dispensation is dated for May 28, 1406, making it most likely that the marriage occurs in May or June.

Their marriage will produce a daughter, Isabel Plantagenet, and a son, Richard Plantagenet, third Duke of York; the latter will eventually lay claim to the throne, beginning the Wars of the Roses.

…King’s College, Cambridge, which Henry establishes in 1441.

Construction of the very first buildings of Kings College, today part of the Old Schools, had begun immediately, but by 1443 the decision to build to a much grander plan had been taken.

Henry VI plans King's College, Cambridge, as a university counterpart to Eton College (whose chapel is very similar to King's College Chapel, although unfinished), the chapel, begun in the Perpendicular Gothic style, being the only portion that is built.

The King decides the dimensions of the Chapel.

The architect of the chapel is disputed.

Reginald Ely, who had been commissioned in 1444 as the head press mason, is a possible architect of the chapel.

However, Nicholas Close (or Cloos), is recorded as being the surveyor, which has been generally accepted to be synonymous with architect.

The first stone of the Chapel is laid, by Henry himself, on St. James' Day, July 25, 1446, the College having been begun in 1441.

Andrew Dokett, who is principal and owner of St. Bernard's Hostel, of which he may have been the founder, had been presented before 1439 by Corpus Christi College to the vicarage of St. Botolph, Cambridge, of which, on the restoration of the great tithes, he had become rector on October 21, 1444.

The major work of Dokett's life is the foundation of Queen’s College.

By prudence administration and adroitness in securing the patronage of the sovereigns, he developed it from small beginnings into a well-endowed society, Queens' College, Cambridge.

Andrew Dokett had in 1446 obtained a Charter from King Henry VI to found St. Bernard's College on a site at Cambridge now part of St. Catharine's College.

The charter had been revoked a year later and Dokett had obtained a new charter from the king to found St Bernard's College on the present site of Old Court and Cloister Court.

King Henry VI in 1448 grants Margaret of Anjou the lands of St. Bernard's College to build a new college to be called Queen's College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard.

King's College Chapel in Cambridge, the most famous example of the sumptuous Perpendicular Gothic style, receives its fan vault, the world’s largest, constructed between 1512 and 1515 by master mason John Wastell.

Henry VI had planned a university counterpart to Eton College (whose chapel is very similar, although unfinished), the chapel being the only portion that was built.

The King decided the dimensions of the Chapel.

The architect of the chapel is disputed.

Reginald Ely, who was commissioned in 1444 as the head press mason, was a possible architect of the chapel.

However, Nicholas Close (or Cloos), was recorded as being the surveyor, which has been generally accepted to be synonymous with architect.

The first stone of the Chapel had been laid, by Henry himself, on St James' Day, July 25, 1446, the College having been begun in 1441.

By the end of the reign of Richard III (1485), despite the Wars of the Roses, five bays had been completed and a timber roof erected.

Henry VII had visited in 1506, paying for the work to resume and even leaving money so that the work could continue after his death.

The building is complete in 1515 under Henry VIII, but the great windows have yet to be made.