Alfanus II [SEP] date of death
Alfanus II
Alfanus II or Alfano II (died 1121) was the Archbishop of Salerno from 1086/7 until his death, succeeding Alfanus I. Like his predecessor and his successor, Romuald I, he was a Lombard.
Before he was archbishop, Alfanus was a "custos" (custodian) of the church of Saint Maximus. He was appointed to the see of Salerno by Roger Borsa, Duke of Apulia, with whom he was generally on good terms. His appointment received the denunciation of Archbishop Hugh of Lyon, who
land. In 1098, Alfanus II complained that these privileges harmed the church of Salerno, and the next year Urban II rescinded them. Later, Pope Pascal II re-privileged the abbey, but left the right of consecrating the abbots and their altars to the archbishop. a merely ceremonial privilege. On 20 July 1098, Urban II issued a bull granting Alfanus II primacy over the archdioceses of Acerenza and Conza. Although this was mainly ceremonial, it allowed Alfanus to advise the papal legate presiding over the election of new archbishops