Lanfranc
archbishop of Canterbury; d. 1089.
The great Lanfranc, counsellor of William the Conqueror, was made archbishop of Canterbury, August 15, 1070. He caused to be rebuilt the cathedral of Canterbury, burned in 1067. Lanfranc's Norman cathedral was itself burned in 1174.
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Cathedral, Canterbury, Romanesque, begun 1070.
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