# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colard-mansion
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:35.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colard-mansion"
name: "Colard Mansion"
slug: "colard-mansion"
description: "Colard Mansion was a 15th-century Flemish scribe and printer who worked together with William Caxton. He is known as the first printer of a book with copper engravings, and as the printer of the first books in English and French."
tagline: "Flemish printer and calligrapher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/French_translation_of_the_Metamorphoses_by_Ovid_(Bruges%2C_1484)%2C_printed_by_Colard_Mansion%2C_showing_his_portrait_as_a_traveler_in_the_Legend_of_the_Fallen_Oak_(folio_43r).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1401"
deathDate: "1484"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.18
  momentum:             0.1226993865030675
  historical:           5.672606666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colard_Mansion"
    title: "Colard Mansion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كولارد مانسيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colard_Mansion"
    title: "Colard Mansion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colard_Mansion"
    title: "Colard Mansion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colard_Mansion"
    title: "Colard Mansion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colard_Mansion"
    title: "Colard Mansion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2749736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump