Saunt Lanfranc

Prior of Le Bec,

Archbishop of Canterbury, Scholar, 1089

Painting by Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517)

 "I am obeying his command

 as well as I can

 and would obey it better

 if the duke* would give me

 a better horse."

*William the Conqueror.