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Lyfing (died 12 June 1020) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells and Archbishop of Canterbury. ==Life== Lyfing was born "Ælfstan" and took his ecclesiastical name from ''leof-carus'' (= "darling"). Lyfing was abbot of Chertsey Abbey from about 989.〔Mason "Lyfing" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''〕〔Knowles, et al. ''Heads of Religious Houses'' pp. 38, 244〕 He became Bishop of Wells in 998 or 999,〔Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222〕 and in 1013 King Æthelred the Unready appointed him to the see of Canterbury.〔Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 214〕 Lyfing was taken captive by Vikings and held prisoner for a time, but he was released in time to attend the Witenagemot in 1014, and he started repairs of the damage the Vikings had done to Canterbury Cathedral. Lyfing was unable to go to Rome for his pallium during King Æthelred's reign, for every bishop that was consecrated during the remainder of the king's reign was consecrated by Archbishop Wulfstan of York.〔Williams ''Æthelred the Unready'' p. 111〕 By 1018, however, he was named as archbishop, having returned to England from Rome with letters from Pope Benedict VIII.〔Brooks ''Early History of the Church of Canterbury'' pp. 287–290〕 As Archbishop of Canterbury, Lyfing crowned two English kings: Ethelred's son Edmund Ironside in 1016 and Cnut the Great in 1017.〔 He seems to have gone to Rome on behalf of Cnut at least once.〔O'Brien ''Queen Emma and the Vikings'' p. 122〕 Lyfing died on 12 June 1020.〔 He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, near the altar of St. Martin.〔 The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' called him "a sagacious man, both before God and before the world".〔Quoted in Barlow ''English Church 1000–1066'' p. 66〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lyfing (Archbishop of Canterbury)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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