Protest of Reingar of Lucca.
- the guest and confessor whom he had sold for William's
gold—to the whole world in his Lateran Council. The special honours which were there paid to Anselm must have been felt by him as little more than a mockery. It may have been a preconcerted scene, it may have been a burst of honest indignation, when Reingar, Bishop of Lucca, bore an emphatic witness on Anselm's side. Reingar, chosen on account of his lofty stature and sounding voice to announce the decrees of the Council, broke forth in words of his own declaring the holiness and the wrongs of the Archbishop of the English, and thrice smote his staff on the floor with quivering lips and teeth gnashed together.[1] The Pope checked him; Reingar protested, and renewed his protest. Anselm simply wondered; he had never said a word to the Bishop of Lucca on any such matter, nor did he believe that any of his faithful followers had done so either.[2]
End of the Council.
Anselm goes to Lyons.
Death of Urban. July. 29, 1099.
The council broke up. The great general anathema
was pronounced which would take in William along
with the other princes of the earth;[3] but nothing was
said or done directly for Anselm or his cause.[4] Anselm
now at last left Rome for Lyons. He there heard of the
deaths both of him who was to issue the excommunication
and of him against whom it was to be issued. Urban
did not live to hear how his preaching at Clermont
was crowned by the deliverance of the Holy City. Yet
the work was done while he still lived. Fourteen days
after the storm of Jerusalem, seven days after the election
- ↑ Hist. Nov. 53. "His dictis, virgam pastoralem quam manu tenebat tertio pavimento illisit, indignationem spiritus sui, compressis exploso murmure labiis et dentibus, palam cunctis ostendens."
- ↑ Ib. "Oppido miratus est, sciens se nec homini de re locutum fuisse, nec a se vel ullo suorum, ut talia diceret, processisse." A little characteristic touch follows; "Sedebat ergo uti solebat, silenter auscultans."
- ↑ See above, p. 606.
- ↑ Hist. Nov. 53. "Nil judicii vel subventionis, præterquam quod diximus, per Romanum præsulem nacti."
