Alhred was expelled by the Northumbrian nobles and people in 774. Northumbria had become deeply unstable: between 758 and 796 eight kings were killed or expelled. Alcuin lamented this as divine punishment. The instability made Northumbria ripe for Danish conquest a century later.
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