 The relation between church and state may have led to the end of Northumbrian control in the Cumbria region.Legend has it that Cuthbert foresaw the death of Ecgfrith (at Dun Nechtain), while visiting the church at Carlisle, warning Ecgfrith's (second) wife Eormenburg whom he was accompanying.Bede reckoned that the decline of Northumbrian power dated from this year (685), but military set-backs were only part of the picture.