Angilbert II (called ''Angilberto da Pusterla'') was the

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from 27 or 28 June 824 to his death on the 13 December 859. He succeeded Angilbert I. Like his predecessor Anselm I, who counselled

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to rebel in 817, Angilbert counselled the

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, this time

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, to revolt against his imperial sovereign in 833. In 837, he acted as an intermediary between Lothair and the emperor

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. In 844 and again in May 859, after Lothair had attained the emperorship, Anselm was appointed to act as ''

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'' in his province. In the former year, he was in

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for the coronation of Louis II as ''rex Langobardorum'' on 15 June. He was there again in April 850 for Louis's imperial coronation. In that year, he attended the reforming Synod of Pavia. Angilbert also championed the cause of the deacon

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, later archbishop, on 20 June 857. Angilbert was the donor of a golden altar for the church of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, and also funded its renovation.

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