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ANNO, or HANNO, SAINT (c. Toro—ro75)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNO, or See also:HANNO, See also:SAINT (c. See also:Toro—ro75)  ,See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, belonged to a Swabian See also:family, and was educated at See also:Bamberg . He became See also:confessor to the See also:emperor See also:Henry III., who appointed him archbishop of Cologne in ro56 . He took a prominent See also:part in the See also:government of See also:Germany during the minority of See also:King Henry IV., and was the See also:leader of the party which in ro62 seized the See also:person of Henry, and deprived his See also:mother, the empress See also:Agnes, of See also:Power . For a See also:short See also:time . See also:Anno exercised the See also:chief authority in the See also:kingdom, but he was soon obliged to See also:share this with See also:Adalbert, archbishop of See also:Bremen, retaining for himself the supervision of Henry's See also:education and the See also:title of magister . The See also:office of See also:chancellor of the kingdom of See also:Italy was at this See also:period regarded as an See also:appanage of the archbishopric of Cologne,and this was probably the See also:reason why Anno had a considerable share in settling the papal dispute in 1064 . He declared See also:Alexander II. to be the rightful See also:pope at a See also:synod held at See also:Mantua in May 1064, and took other steps to secure his recognition . Returning to Germany, he found the chief power in the hands of Adalbert, and as he was disliked by the See also:young king, he See also:left the See also:court but returned and regained some of his former See also:influence when Adalbert See also:fell from power in ro66 . He succeeded in putting down a rising against his authority in Cologne in 1074, and it was reported he had allied himself with See also:William the Conqueror, king of See also:England, against the emperor . Having cleared himself of this See also:charge, Anno took no further part in public business, and died at Cologne on the 4th of See also:December 1075 . He was buried in the monastery of See also:Siegburg and was canonized in 1183 by Pope See also:Lucius III . He was a founder of monasteries and a builder of churches, advocated clerical See also:celibacy and was a strict disciplinarian .

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man of See also:great See also:energy and ability, whose See also:action in recognizing Alexander H. was of the utmost consequence for Henry IV. and for Germany . There is a Vita Annonis, written about 11o0, by a See also:monk of Siegburg, but this is of slight value . It appears in the Monumenta Germaniae historica: Scriptores, Bd. xi . (See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826-1892) . There is an "Epistola ad monachos Malmundarienses" by Anno in the Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft See also:fur altere deutsche Geschichtskunde, Bd. xiv . (Hanover, 1876 seq.) . See also the Annolied, or Incerti poetae Teutonici rhythmics de S . Annone, written about 118o, and edited by J . Kehrein (See also:Frankfort, 1865) ; Th . Lindner, Anno II. der Hellige, Erzbischof von Koln (See also:Leipzig, 1869) .

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