Corpus Christi College (full name: The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary often shortened to Corpus or previously The Body) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge.
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Informal: Bene’t College (this seems to have died out in the 1820s)
