Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury

Lanfranc

Italian jurist and theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089

Lanfranc, OSB was an Italian-born English churchman, monk and scholar. Born in Italy, he moved to Normandy to become a Benedictine monk at Bec. He served successively as prior of Bec Abbey and abbot of St Stephen's Abbey in Caen, Normandy and then as Archbishop of Canterbury in…