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Landfranc becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1070 that Landfranc, Abbot of Caen, came to England, after a few days became Archbishop of Canterbury, and was invested on the fourth before the calends of September in his own see by eight bishops, his suffragans.

Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through the 19th-century English translation of Ingram/Giles (Old English not checked); this records what the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation.

  • Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.

Source: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (English translation by J. Ingram, with J. A. Giles)Read the source