S AINT ANNO. – Archbishop of Cologne, b. c. 1010 in Swabia, d. 4 Dec. 1075. He became provost of the canons at Goslar and in 1056 was appointed Archbishop of Cologne. He acted as regent, together with the widowed queen, for the young heir Prince Henry (IV), but in 1062 he abducted the prince and governed Germany until 1063, when he had to yield to the famous Adalbert of Hamburg. Although of an impetuous character, he rendered great services to the kingdom and also to the Church, administering his diocese excellently and founding several abbeys (notably that of Siegburg); he is especially praiseworthy for his loyal stance towards Alexander II (1061–73) during the latter’s critical struggle with the antipope Cadalo of Parma and Emperor Henry IV. Around 1100 he was glorified in the famous Song of A. (in MGH, Deutsche Chroniken, I, 11, pp. 63–132; V. the following entry).
ANNO, SANTO
Bibl.: Vita Annonis Archiepiscopi Coloniensis, in MGH, Scriptores, XI, pp. 462–518; A. Brackmann, in Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 32, Hannover 1906–1907, pp. 151–65; A. Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, III, 3–4 ed., Leipzig 1906, pp. 712–30, 751–52; F. Schneider, s. v., in Enc. Ital., III, pp. 400, 406–407. Cesario van Hulst