Lanfranc
1st archbishop of Canterbury after the Norman Conquest; born in Pavia , Italy, about 1005. He was educated at Pavia for the law; about 1039 left Italy, and founded a school of law at Avranches; three years later took the monastic vows at the Benemonastery of Bec, and in 1045 was chosen its prior. He figured promi- Berengarian controversy against Berengarius (see BERENGARIUS as to the real presence, ranging himself close contact with William of Normandy. OF TOURS). About 1053 he came into Though he at first condemned this princes marriage with his cousin, he afterward (1059) afterward (1059) went personally to papal dispensation for it. As a William made him prior of his new for it. As a reward for this service foundation, the abbey of St. Stephen at Caen (1066), and in 1070 promoted him England by making him Archbishop of Canterbury in place He died in May, 1089, leaving commentaries , sermons, letters, and a work against ters, and a work against Berengar. thor; born in Selkirk, March 31, 1844.