Anselm III (Italian:Anselmo da Rho) was thearchbishop of Milan from his consecration on 1 July 1086 to his death on 4 December 1093. He reestablished order in the Ambrosian see after more than a decade of fighting between thepataria and the religious authorities and confusion over the succession to the bishopric.
Anslem was a relative ofArnaldo da Rho. It was more than a year after the death of his predecessor,Tedald, that Anselm was nominated archbishop byHenry IV. He was the last imperially-appointed bishop in Milan and originally opposed to theGregorian reforms in order to maintain the integrity of the historical Milanese independence of theHoly See.Pope Victor III refused him thepallium, but he made peace withPope Urban II in 1088, after a brief retirement to a monastery, and received the pallium. He always supported the concurrentCluniac reforms, however. In his first year in office, he founded a Cluniac nunnery atCantù. Early in 1093, he renounced control of S. Maria inCalvenazzo after it was donated to Cluny.
The Milanese citizenry strongly opposed the imperial pretensions of and agitated forConrad the Emperor's son as their own king. Anselm duly crowned ConradKing of Italy in opposition to his father first atMonza then atMilan. He died very soon after the coronation and was buried in S. Nazaro inBrolo.
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