The first thing to be noted about Anselm is that he was a foreigner and came, like Lanfranc, from North Italy, though his native town of Aosta, close to the St Bernard passes, was far removed, geographically and politically, from Lanfranc's home at Pavia. It was actually within the territories of the count of Savoy, and therefore in a region more friendly to reform than the anti-papal Lombardy. But it is of more importance to remember that Anselm was born in 1033, a generation later than Lanfranc. Lanfranc had left Italy and was already at Bee before the Papacy had been reformed. Anselm left Italy nearly twenty years later than Lanfranc, and by that time the Papacy had already been reformed, and Leo IX by his journeyings and holding of synods had made North Italy, France, and Germany familiar with the Pope and with papal authority. When, hardly yet of age, he left his home, it was first of all in Burgundy, where the reform movement was strong, that he stayed before he went north to Normandy; his travels, Eadmer states in his life of Anselm, lasted for three years in all.