Robert Colman

{{Short description|English Franciscan friar and university Chancellor}}

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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.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/b30454529_0003 | title= The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches |publisher=Internet Archive| chapter=A Catalogue of Writers of the Order of the Friers—Minors | first=John | last=Stevens | authorlink = John Stevens (translator) | year=1722 | page=[https://archive.org/details/b30454529_0003/page/103 103]}} He was at the Franciscan friary in Norwich.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/appendixtohistor00wood |title= The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press | location=Oxford | chapter=Fasti Oxoniensis | first=Anthony | last=Wood | year=1790 | page=[https://archive.org/details/appendixtohistor00wood/page/41 41]}} Among other works, he wrote Sermons, Sacred Lessons, and A Book of Sundry Poems. He was known for his "eloquence, erudition, wit, and judgment".{{cite book |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2pMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA150 | title= The History of the University of Oxford: from the death of William the Conqueror, to the demise of Queen Elizabeth | chapter=Robert Coleman | first=John | last=Pechell | year=1773 | page=150}}

Colman was Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1419.{{cite book | title=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford | publisher=Macmillan | chapter=Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University | year=1988 | pages=521–522 | isbn=0-333-39917-X |editor-last=Hibbert|editor-first=Christopher|editor-link=Christopher Hibbert }} He resigned from the position in the same year and died in 1428.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/collectaneaanglo00park | title=Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica |publisher=Internet Archive| chapter=The Antiquities of the English Franciscans | first=Anthony | last=Parkinson | year=1726 | page=[https://archive.org/details/collectaneaanglo00park/page/195 195]}}