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Robert Colman

English Franciscan friar and university Chancellor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Robert Colman DD (or Coleman, died 1428) was an English medieval Franciscan friar and university Chancellor.

Colman received his Doctor of Divinity from Oxford University.[1] He was at the Franciscan friary in Norwich.[2] Among other works, he wrote Sermons, Sacred Lessons, and A Book of Sundry Poems.[1] He was known for his "eloquence, erudition, wit, and judgment".[3]

Colman was Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1419.[4] He resigned from the position in the same year and died in 1428.[5]

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