Anselm of St Saba

Anselm[a] (died 1148) was a medieval bishop of London whose election was quashed by Pope Innocent II.

[4] He joined the Benedictine abbey of Saint Michael's on Mount Pirchiriano overlooking Chiusa in the March of Susa.

[3] Anselm visited the abbey with his chaplain and biographer Eadmer during Easter in 1098 and brought the young man with them to Lyons, where he suffered but recovered from a grave illness.

[3] His father Burgundius seems to have wanted to profit from his brother-in-law's high position but St Anselm "warned him off in no uncertain terms"[5] and he instead took the cross, journeying as a pilgrim or warrior to the Holy Land amid the ongoing First Crusade.

[5] St Anselm watched over his nephew's ecclesiastical career from afar and sent him some letters of guidance,[7] but his attempt to enroll his sister in the Cluniac nunnery at Marcigny was successfully blocked by his nephew's abbot at Chiusa, presumably because he did not want to endanger his own abbey's inheritance of the family's remaining estates.