Robert of Newminster (c. 1100–1159) was a priest, abbot, and saint of the Catholic Church. He was born in Gargrave in Yorkshire, England. He was one of the monks who founded Fountains Abbey which is named after the abbey he founded in Morpeth, Northumberland.
A priest from North Yorkshire who took the Benedictine habit at Whitby and obtained permission to join some monks of York who were attempting to live according to a new interpretation of the Benedictine rule at Fountains abbey (1132). Fountains soon became Cistercian and one of the centers of the White Monks in N. England. Newminster Abbey in Northumberland was founded from it in 1137, and Robert became its first abbot. He is described as gentle and merciful in judgment.