Bishop Lyfing was a close friend and trusted counselor of King Canute the Dane and accompanied him on a pilgrimage to Rome. In 1040, however, after Canute was dead, Lyfing was implicated in the capture of Alfred Atheling[?] at Guildford, after which Alfred's eyes were put out so clumsily that he soon died, and the massacre of his men.
When Lyfing died, he chose to be buried at Tavistock, the abbey he had favored all his life.
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