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  1. Italian archbishop of Canterbury from 1070;
  2. he rebuilt the cathedral, replaced English
  3. clergy by Normans, enforced clerical
  4. celibacy, and separated the ecclesiastical
  5. from the secular courts. His skill in
  6. theological controversy did much to secure
  7. the church's adoption of the doctrine of
  8. transubstantiation. He came over to England
  9. with William the Conqueror, whose adviser he
  10. was. Lanfranc was born in Pavia, Italy; he
  11. entered the monastery of Bec, Normandy, in
  12. 1042, where he opened a school which achieved
  13. international fame; St Anselm, later his
  14. successor, was his pupil there.
  15.