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College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed
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](../images/g/gb%5Fouasc.gif)image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 February 2019
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Description of the flag
The flag is a banner of arms (ratio 1:1).
Coat of Arms:
Shield Or, a chevron between three cinquefoils Gules.
Meaning: The college was founded in 1438 in order to commemorate the victims of the Hundred Years' War by Henry Chichele,
Archbishop of Canterbury. The arms are those of the founder and his collateral descendants.
Source: John P. Brooke-Little: Oxford University and its Colleges, Oxford 1962(?), available online athttps://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/oxford-university-and-its-colleges/and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 February 2019
Coat of arms, 1720
[ ![[1720 Arms of All Souls College]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/g/gb_ouasc720)
Source: �The arms of the Colleges; &c in Oxford' by J. Owen & E. Bowen c.1720