Lanfrank from Bec

Lanfrank von Bec OSB (French Lanfranc ; Latin Lanfrancus Cantuariensis ; * around 1010 in Pavia ; † May 28, 1089 in Canterbury ) was a theologian, prior of Le Bec Abbey and Archbishop of Canterbury .

Lanfrank on an 18th century painting. Berengar von Tours is depicted at his feet.

Life

Lanfrank came from a noble family in Pavia and studied the liberal arts at various northern Italian schools . From around 1030 he worked as a teacher of grammar, dialectics and rhetoric ( Trivium ) in Burgundy , in the Loire Valley and at the cathedral school of Avranches .

After a conversion experience, he joined the hermit community of Le Bec Abbey in 1042, of which he was prior from 1045 to 1063. Gilbert Crispin and, from 1059, Anselm of Canterbury, were among his numerous students .

In the Lord's Supper dispute, from around 1050 onwards, he advocated the conception of real presence , especially against Berengar, and created the basis for the later doctrine of transubstantiation with his recourse to Aristotle 's doctrine of substance and accident ( de corpore et sanguine domini , chap. 18) .

In 1063 he became abbot of St. Stephen's Abbey in Caen and was Archbishop of Canterbury, England , under William the Conqueror from 1070 to 1089 . He was a great patron of the Abbey of St Albans , of which his first Norman abbot was his relative Paul.

His feast day is May 28th.

literature

Helen Clover, Margaret Gibson: The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury . Oxford University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-19-822235-1 .
Herbert Edward John Cowdrey: Lanfranc: Scholar, Monk, and Archbishop. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-925960-7 .
Margaret Gibson: Lanfrank by Bec . In: TRE 20 (1990), 434-436 Google Booksearch
Margaret T. Gibson: Lanfranc of Bec. Clarendon, Oxford 1978, ISBN 0-19-822462-1 .
Klaus Reinhardt: LANFRANK from Bec. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 1074-1076. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Lanfrancus Cantuariensis in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 210.
↑ Martin Heale: The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Woodbridge 2004 (= Studies in the History of Medieval Religion Vol. XXII), p. 59.

predecessor	Office	successor
Stigand	Archbishop of Canterbury 1070-1089	Anselm

personal data
SURNAME	Lanfrank from Bec
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lanfranc; Lanfrancus Cantuariensis; Lanfranc from Pavia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	medieval theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1010
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pavia
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1089
Place of death	Canterbury

[1] Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 210.

[2] Martin Heale: The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Woodbridge 2004 (= Studies in the History of Medieval Religion Vol. XXII), p. 59.