Robert of Cricklade (c. 1100–1174 × 1179) was a medieval English writer and prior of St Frideswide's Priory in Oxford.
He wrote several theological works as well as a lost biography of Thomas Becket, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury.
Although earlier historians claimed that he was chancellor of Oxford, this office did not yet exist during Robert's lifetime.
It is an allegorical treatment of the Jacob story from the Bible, written after 1137 and before Robert's move to Oxford in 1138/9.
[15] It was written between 1164 and 1168, but the surviving manuscript opens with an addition noting a decretal of Pope Alexander III from 1170.
The work survives in two manuscripts: Robert wrote his Life and Miracles of St Thomas of Canterbury around 1173 to 1174.
[25] Benedict of Peterborough quotes in his Miracula S. Thome Cantuariensis a letter to him from Robert, giving an account of his healing from a serious illness, for which he credits the intercession of Thomas Becket.
[26] The earliest account of the death of Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, whose Latin original is lost but partially survives in an Icelandic translation was written by a 'Meistari Roðbert'.