Thomas Rodborne
{{Short description|English churchman and university chancellor}}
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{{small|(13 March 1414 – 18 April 1429)}}
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| office1 = Chancellor of the University of Oxford
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| predecessor1 = Walter Treugof
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| office2 = Warden of Merton College, Oxford
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| predecessor2 = Edmund Bekyngham
| successor2 = Robert Gilbert
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Thomas Rodborne DD (also Rodeborne, Rodebourne, Rodbourne, Rudbourne, or Rodburn, died 1442) was an English medieval churchman and university chancellor.
Rodborne was a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, where he taught Henry V mathematics.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLU8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6 |title=The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the University of Oxford |volume=III | publisher=Clarendon Press | location=Oxford | chapter=Merton College | first=Anthony | last=Wood | year=1786 | pages=6, 15 }} He became a proctor in 1402 and was the warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1416 to 1417.Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 647; year 1422; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0007.htm; 6th entry mentions "Thomas Rodeburne, lately warden" He was chancellor of the University of Oxford during 1420.{{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 became Archdeacon of Sudbury. From 1433 until his death in 1442, he was Bishop of St David's in Wales.
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| before=Walter Trengof
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Category:Fellows of the Queen's College, Oxford
Category:Medieval English mathematicians
Category:Wardens of Merton College, Oxford
Category:Chancellors of the University of Oxford
Category:14th-century English people
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Category:Archdeacons of Sudbury
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