Ælfheah's shrine, which had become neglected, was rebuilt and expanded in the early 12th century under Anselm of Canterbury, who was instrumental in retaining Ælfheah's name in the church calendar.

* 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1033 )

** Anselm of Canterbury

He was also different in that he appeals to Pre-Lombardian figures, and his use of Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux, whose works were not cited as frequently by other 12th century scholastics.

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

* Anselm of Canterbury ( c 1033 – 1109 )

Henry had three problems: ( 1 ) Conflict with the Church and Anselm of Canterbury in particular.

The term " monastic Christology " has been used to describe spiritual approaches developed by Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux.

It is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury, ( 1033 – 1109 ).

Between 1103 and 1107 Henry was involved in a dispute with Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Pope Paschal II in the investiture controversy, which was settled in the Concordat of London in 1107.

* Anselm of Canterbury

Descartes argued further that this knowledge could lead to a proof of the certainty of the existence of God, using the ontological argument that had been formulated first by Anselm of Canterbury.

* St. Anselm of Canterbury

Urban II exchanged much correspondence with Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, to whom he extended an order to come urgently to Rome just after the archbishop's first flight from England, and earlier gave his approval to Anselm's work De Incarnatione Verbi ( The Incarnation of the Word ).

The early Unitarian church not only rejected the Trinity, but also the pre-existence of Christ as well, in many cases, predestination and original sin as put forward by Augustine of Hippo, and the substitutionary atonement of Christ developed by Anselm of Canterbury and John Calvin.

In panic owing to serious illness in 1093, William nominated as archbishop another Norman-Italian, Saint Anselm of Canterbury — considered the greatest theologian of his generation — but this led to a long period of animosity between Church and State, Anselm being a stronger supporter of the Gregorian reforms in the Church than Lanfranc.

Anselm remained in exile, and William was able to claim the revenues of the archbishop of Canterbury to the end of his reign.

* Anselm, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury

* 1078 – The Proslogion is written by Anselm of Canterbury.

In the 11th century, there were early Scholastic figures such as Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Peter Lombard, and Gilbert de la Porrée.

* Saint Anselm of Canterbury, a medieval philosopher and theologian, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

* Anselm of Laon becomes archdeacon of Laon.

* Anselm, later to become Archbishop of Canterbury, becomes prior at the Abbey of Bec.

* Anselm of Laon becomes chancellor of Laon.

Although Theobald was pious and well-educated, he had only become abbot the year before, and his election was probably influenced by the reputation of his monastery, which had already produced two archbishops of Canterbury, Lanfranc and Anselm.

He became abbot of the house in 1091, and his election was attended by Anselm, abbot of Bec.

It was St-Calais, along with Robert, Count of Meulan who negotiated with Anselm, the abbot of Bec, in 1093 over the conditions under which Anselm would allow himself to be elected Archbishop of Canterbury.

* Anselm of Farfa ( died 883 ), abbot

He became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, where he made the acquaintance of Anselm, at that time visiting England as abbot of the Abbey of Bec.

He was followed as abbot by Anselm, also later an Archbishop of Canterbury, as was the fifth abbot, Theobald of Bec.

He had given Friuli to his brother-in-law Anselm, abbot of Nonantula, whose sister Gisaltruda he had married, when he succeeded to the kingship in 749.

Saint Anselm, abbot of Bec Abbey in Normandy and later to be Archbishop of Canterbury, apparently visited the shrine of St. Neot in 1078-9.

Saint Anselm of Friuli, O. S. B., ( died 805 ) was a medieval abbot, and later canonized, originally a Lombard nobleman.

Having been abbot for fifty years, Anselm died at Nonantola in 805, where the commune still honors him as its patron saint.

* Saint Anselm Abbey

* Saint Anselm Abbey-a Benedictine Abbey of monks in Goffstown, New Hampshire

Cadfael is also close to Prior Leonard of Bromfield Abbey ( The Virgin in the Ice ); Brother Paul, the master of the novices and schoolboys ; Brother Edmund the infirmarer, who treats the sick and supervises the Abbey infirmary ; and Brother Anselm the precentor, who is in charge of music and the order of the worship services.

The Saint Anselm College and Saint Anselm Abbey have been a substantial presence in the town of Goffstown.

At Dunfermline Abbey he sought support from Anselm of Canterbury with his mother's foundation from which the monks of Canterbury may have been expelled by Domnall Bán.

In 1106 he visited Anselm at the Abbey of Bec, but probably did not try to assert himself at Séez.

Ivo is claimed to have studied at the Abbey of Bec in Normandy under Lanfranc, where he would have met Anselm of Aosta, the great Scholastic.

He is claimed to have studied first in Paris, then in Abbey of Bec in Normandy where ( according to some sources ) he studied under Lanfranc along with Anselm of Canterbury.

He also established a Benedictine monastery, with monks from Bec Abbey in Normandy, which had provided the first two post-Conquest Archbishops of Canterbury: Lanfranc and Anselm.

The Abbey Church also serves as the home church for the Saint Louis Archdiocese parish of Saint Anselm.

After Matilda and Henry were married on 11 November 1100 at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, she was crowned as " Matilda ," a hallowed Norman name.

Named for Saint Anselm of Canterbury ( Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109 ), the college continues to have a fully functioning and independent Benedictine abbey attached to it, Saint Anselm Abbey.

In 1927, by a monastic vote, the shield design was incorporated as the official shield of Saint Anselm Abbey and the college.

Hence, the Abbey Shield has been interpreted as Saint Anselm of New Hampshire.

For more information see Saint Anselm Abbey Community Song.

* Bishop Joseph John Gerry – 1950 – former Bishop of Portland, Maine, and former Abbot of Saint Anselm Abbey

Gilbert had known Saint Anselm, since Gilbert was a young monk under Anselm at the Abbey of Bec, Normandy.