This version of events "bristles with historical problems", according to one historian, and it is also possible that Cynehelm is to be identified with an ealdorman who is found witnessing charters earlier in Coenwulf's reign, and who appears to have died by about 812.
Esta versión dos feitos «está chea de problemas históricos», segundo un historiador, e é posíbel que Cynehelm sexa confundido cun ealdorman que atopouse en cartularios de principios do reinado de Coenwulf, e que semella que morreu sobre o 812.