Oxford was founded by students, and I believe Cambridge was also. I do not see a reference on who opened the University of Northampton, but it was only open a very few years, and these three were the only universities opened in England during the Middle Ages.
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Three colleges were founded in England in the middle ages:
Oxford, which existed from around the start of the 12th C, but was formally established in 1167.
Cambridge, which was formally established in 1209,
and Northampton, which was established in 1261. However, Northampton was dissolved by the king under political pressure from the college of Oxford, who considered it a threat, in 1264.
There weren't schools or teachers in the middle ages. So, they weren't called anything. About 90% of the population couldn't read or write. _____________ There were schools and teachers in the Middle Ages. Most education was conducted by Monks, Priests and in some cases the Bishop. The Church pretty much controlled education. The first Universities were being formed all across Europe and England. The University of Bologna was founded in 1088, Oxford founded 1096 but not officially recognized until 1157. Dozens of Universities were founded during the Middle Ages. During this time there was a struggle to have non-religious teachers in the schools. Generally the teachers were called Masters.
1. Following quarrels at the University of Paris, a sizeable group of English students left with their teachers and set up a new university at Oxford around c. 1170 with the backing of Henry II. 2. About forty years later something similar happened at Oxford, and some students and teachers set up the University of Cambridge around 1210, but it remained small till the Renaissance. 3. In 1333-34 there was a further quarrel at Oxford, and aother migration, this time to Stamford, Lincolnshire. Edward III ordered the students and teachers to return to Oxford, and the university never really got going.
Jamestown was founded
Under Emperor Constantin, when both empires where still united.
1st Answer:There weren't any universities in the middle ages. 90% of the people couldn't read or write and monks taught noble boys to read and write to some extent.2nd Answer:The universities were formed from less formal schools to educate teachers, physicians, mathematicians, astronomers, lawyers, and so on, once their basic education was done.Contrary to what one might read, teachers were in demand in Europe, and schools were everywhere. The Byzantine system of primary education was a development of the fifth century, though older individual schools existed in the West. The oldest currently extant school in Britain, King's School in Canterbury, was founded in 597, but records show the Visigoths had already started opening schools before then. The oldest secular, state run school, Beverley Grammar School, was founded in 700 and survived many years of Viking occupation. The oldest school in Iceland was founded in 1056, and the oldest school n Riga, Latvia was founded in 1211, ten years after the city was founded. There are over seventy extant schools in Europe dating from the Middle Ages. King Henry VIII closed at least one school that dated from before the Middle Ages started.The first university to receive a papal charter was the University of Bologna, in 1088, though teaching had been underway for some time. The University of Paris received its charter in 1150, and Oxford was recognized in 1167, though teaching began in 1096. There were over seventy universities founded in Europe during the Middle Ages.There are links below.