Question: When was the University founded that Thomas Caius was a Fellow and Master of?

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Ernest Stewart Roberts: The Rev. Ernest Stewart Roberts (1847-1912) was born in Swineshead, Lincolnshire; a classicist and academic administrator.  He served as Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1906-1908).  He was admitted to Caius in 1865, elected Fellow in 1870 then Senior Tutor.  He was elected President in 1904 and Master in 1903.  He was involved in the foundation of the College magazine, "The Caian" and the College Mission at Battersea and in the organisation of the College rifle corps and boat club.

Vic Gatrell: Vic Gatrell (or V.A.C. Gatrell) is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.  Born in South Africa in 1941, he graduated with Honours from Rhodes University before winning an Elsie Ballot scholarship to Cambridge.  At St John's College he took first-class honours in history and completed his Ph.D., before becoming a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.  In the Cambridge History Faculty he was Lecturer and then Reader in British history, and co-editor of "The Historical Journal", 1976-1986.  He was among the pioneer scholars working on the history of crime and punishment.  He became Professor of British History at the University of Essex 2003–9.  He retained his Fellowship in Caius, and returned to Cambridge in 2009, where he now lives.

Anthony Gottlieb: Anthony John Gottlieb (born 1956) is a British writer, former Executive Editor of The "Economist", historian of ideas, and the author of The Dream of Reason.  A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from October 2017, he has previously held visiting fellowships at All Souls, and Harvard University, and taught at the CUNY Graduate Center and the New School in New York, and been a visiting scholar at New York University and fellow at the Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.  He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the series editor of The Routledge Guides to the Great Books.  He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge University, and was formerly married to the British author Miranda Seymour.

Joachim Whaley: Joachim Whaley (born September 1954 near London) is a historian and linguist at Cambridge University where he is Professor of German History and Thought.  He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.  He teaches and researches in German history and culture since 1500 and contemporary German politics.  He also teaches German language and has a special interest in translation.  He has 27 works in 102 publications in two languages (English and German) and his "Mirrors of mortality: studies in the social history of death" has 24 English editions published between 1981 and 2012.  He is the author of "Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 "(Cambridge, 1985) and of "Germany and the Holy Roman Empire 1493-1806," (Oxford, 2012) a study of the Holy Roman Empire published in two volumes.  His books on toleration and on the Holy Roman Empire have been translated into German.  He has also written numerous articles, reviews and contributed to handbooks and lexicons of German history and literature.  In 2010 he was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize by the University of Cambridge.  Joachim Whaley has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1984.  In 2013 he was awarded a LittD by the University of Cambridge for his books and articles on early modern German history.  He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2015.

Thomas Bacon (academic): Thomas Bacon was the fifteenth master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge (later Gonville and Caius College) from 1552.  In 1521 he was Principal of Physwick Hostel, Caius

David Abulafia: David Abulafia, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 12 December 1949) is an influential English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.  He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1974; his current position in the college is that of Papathomas Professorial Fellow.  He was Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, 2003-5, and was elected a member of the governing Council of Cambridge University in 2008.

Thomas Caius: Thomas Caius (aka Thomas Key, died in Oxford, May 1572) was an Oxford academic and administrator.  He was Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford.

Epoka University: Epoka University (EU) is a private non-profit university founded in 2007 in Tirana, Albania.  The university received accreditation by the Albanian Agency for Accreditation of Higher Education in 2011.  It offers Bachelor, Master of Science, Professional Master and PhD degrees.  There are six PhD programs that are administered solely by Epoka staff in: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Economics, Political Science and International Relations and Business Administration.  It offers a joint degree with Leeds Metropolitan University.

University of Aberdeen: The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.  It is an ancient university founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV, King of Scots to establish King's College, making it Scotland's third-oldest university and the fifth-oldest in the English-speaking world.  The university as it is today was formed in 1860 by a merger between King's College and Marischal College, a second university founded in 1593 as a Protestant alternative to the former.  Today, Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is one of two universities in the city, the other being the Robert Gordon University.

University College, Oxford: University College (in full The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ"), is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.  It has a claim to being the oldest college of the university, having been founded in 1249 by William of Durham.

Supporting paragraphs: Thomas Caius University College, Oxford
Answer: 1249