Lanfranc
Abbot of Caen in Normandy, then archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to his death in 1089.
archbishop 1070–1089
A year in a sentence: entries from the Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for 802–1154, in the edition of John Earle (Oxford, 1865) · entries for 802–1154; the Peterborough copy written about 1121–1155
On þisum geare se arwurða muneca feder and frouer Landfranc arc̃b' gewat of þissū life. ac we hopiað ꝥ he ferde to ꝥ heofanlice rice. Swilce eac gewarð ofer eall Engle land mycel eorð styrunge. on þone dæg iii idus Aug'. and wæs swiðe lætsum gear on corne. and on ælces cynnes wæstmum. swa ꝥ manig men ræpon heora corn onbutan Martines mæssan. and gyt lator.
In this year Archbishop Lanfranc, the honored father and comfort of monks, passed from this life. But we hope that he went to the kingdom of heaven. Also, a great earthquake struck all over England on August 11. And it was a very late year for grain and every kind of crop, so that many people reaped their grain around Martinmas, and even later.