Two embassies have been sent to Pope…
September 1102 CE
Two embassies have been sent to Pope Paschal II regarding the legitimacy of Henry's investiture, but Paschal had reaffirmed the papal rule on both occasions.
In the meantime, Anselm does work with Henry.
Henry is threatened with invasion by his brother, Robert Curthose, and Anselm publicly supports Henry, wooing the wavering barons and threatening Curthose with excommunication.
At Michaelmas of 1102, Anselm holds a council in London in which he prohibits marriage and concubinage to those in holy orders (as well as condemning simony and reforming regulations on clerical dress and sobriety).
He is among the first to take a public stand against the slave trade: in 1102, at a church council in St. Peter's church, Westminster, he obtains the passage of a resolution against the practice of selling men like cattle.