{Anglo-Saxon Cycles [continued]}[31st October 1990]

[Redbook8:81][19901031:1540c]{Anglo-Saxon Cycles [continued]}[31st October 1990]

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However,* there is a very vague pattern in that major shifts of power between kingdoms are likely to occur at or near the 64C years:

**Northumbria becomes dominant in 603[ce] (64C608[ce]), but is defeated by Mercia in 641[ce] (64C640[ce]).

Mercia expands 645-674ce (64M~656, 64A~672), encounters resistance for a while from Wessex and Kent (c64G~688 - 64M~720), but by 731[ce] all lands south of the Humber are subject to Mercia.

In 757[ce] (64G~752, 64R~760) King Aethelbald of Mercia is murdered by his own household.*** It takes [King] Offa of Mercia until 785ce (64M~784ce) to restablish Mercia’s dominance.

From his death in 796ce begins Mercian decline (64A~800ce), until in 825ce Mercia is defeated by Wessex (64C832ce).

In 886ce Alfred of Wessex is accepted as lord of Saxon England (64C896ce).

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*[See last previous entry]

**E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 29:28

***cf [last previous entry, [Redbook8:80-82][19901031:1540b]{Anglo-Saxon Cycles}[31st October 1990],] 80

****cf [[Redbook8:273][19910220:1120]{Byzantine Cycle?}[20th February 1991],] 273 [repaginated in fn & on ms page from 271]

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