Lanfranc (c. 1005–1089) was Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Lombard by extraction. Early life He was born in the early years of the eleventh century at Pavia, where later tradition held that his father, Hanbald, held a rank broadly equivalent to magistrate. He was orphaned at an early age. Lanfranc was trained in the liberal arts, at that time a field in which northern Italy was famous (there's little or no evidence to support the myth that his education included much in the way of Civil… (More on Lanfranc)