Anselm of St Saba

Anselm of St Saba
Bishop of London elect
Elected	about 22 March 1136
Installed	1137
Term ended	1138
Predecessor	Gilbert Universalis
Successor	Robert de Sigello
Other posts	Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds
Orders
Consecration	never consecrated
Personal details
Died	3 January 1148
Denomination	Catholic

Anselm (died 1148) was a medieval bishop of London whose election was quashed by Pope Innocent II. He was a monk of Chiusa, abbot of Saint Saba in Rome, papal legate to England, and abbot of Bury St Edmunds.

Anselm was the son of a nobleman named Burgundius and his wife Richeza or Richera, the much younger sister of Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury. Anselm was dedicated to a clerical life from a young age despite all his siblings having died in birth or in childhood. He joined the Benedictine abbey of Saint Michael's on Mount Pirchiriano overlooking Chiusa in the March of Susa. 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. 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" and he instead took the cross, journeying as a pilgrim or warrior to the Holy Land amid the ongoing First Crusade. He then died or never returned, leaving Anselm's uncle to provide for the family. St Anselm watched over his nephew's ecclesiastical career from afar and sent him some letters of guidance, 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.

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