Complex sentence: Abbot Gilbert Crispin (1055? -1117) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England.
Split into simpler sentences: Abbot Gilbert Crispin (1055? -1117) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk. Gilbert was appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England.