Cynewulf Of Wessex: Anglo-Saxon King's Bloody Rise And Tragic End
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Cynewulf Of Wessex: Anglo-Saxon King's Bloody Rise And Tragic End
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Power grabs, political tightropes, and a king who rewrote the rules of survival.
Cynewulf ruled Wessex from 757 to 786 CE—a long reign full of quiet cunning, brutal consequences, and almost no glory in the official memory books. Forgotten by most but foundational to what came next, Cynewulf didn’t just hold on—he carved out a path through one of the most chaotic periods in Anglo-Saxon politics. While later kings like Alfred get the PR, Cynewulf was busy doing the dirty work: consolidating fragile alliances, playing cat-and-mouse with the Mercian overlord Offa, and somehow surviving three decades in a job that usually got you killed. Until, of course, it did.
🔥 In this episode:
- Coup and consequence: How Cynewulf overthrew Sigeberht and why it mattered
- Offa’s shadow: Navigating Mercian dominance without becoming a puppet
- The politics of marriage: Royal alliances, noble loyalty, and Wessex survival
- Sacred swords and church scrolls: Balancing warrior tradition with Christian rule
- A king’s brutal end: The ambush at Merton and what it tells us about kingship
- Why “being throne-worthy” beat bloodlines in the Anglo-Saxon succession game
- How political power worked when kingdoms were fluid, and violence was policy
- The silences of history—what we don’t hear from women, peasants, or priests
- The everyday tightrope of kingship: who you trust, who you marry, and who kills you
- What Cynewulf’s reign reveals about how fragile—and fiercely defended—early monarchy was
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle—raw, terse, and politically loaded
- Archaeological finds: swords, coins, and graves from the eighth-century south
- Barbara Yorke’s Wessex in the Early Middle Ages—a must-read for real royal context
- Chronicle of Æthelweard—one of the few other records to mention Cynewulf
- Offa’s Dyke and the Mercian frontier: what the landscape still whispers
We meet Beorhtric of Wessex—the king who inherited Cynewulf’s crown and married into Offa’s Mercian powerhouse. A quiet reign, a famous wife, and a kingdom on the edge of transformation.
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