Lord of the Isle of Wight

The Lords of the Isle of Wight were the masters of the Isle of Wight in high medieval England.

After the Norman invasion of England in 1066 proclaimed King William I the Conqueror 's follower William FitzOsbern hereditary Lord of the Isle of Wight. After his son, however, had participated in the 1075 uprising of the counts, the island of FitzOsbern family has been withdrawn. King Henry I finally forgave the lordship in 1101 to his loyal knight Richard de Redvers, in whose family it remained hereditary henceforth.

King Edward I took long efforts to get the key for the control of the Channel Isle of Wight in his possession. But only on her deathbed one day before her death on November 9, 1293, the last, childless - Redvers Countess of Devon was ready to sell the island for 6,000 marks to the king. Her cousin Hugh de Courtenay of Okehampton then fought for several years to the inheritance of the Countess and was only in 1335 invested as Earl of Devon; but the island remained still in the royal demesne of the English crown.

Supposedly crowned King Henry VI. in 1444 his friend Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick ( † 1446 ) King of the Isle of Wight.

Lords of the Isle of Wight, first Creation ( 1066)

  • FitzOsbern William, 1st Earl of Hereford († 1071 )
  • Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford ( 1075 seized )

Lords of the Isle of Wight, second Creation ( 1101)

Norman conquest of England Revolt of the Earls Henry I of England Edward I of England Henry VI of England Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon
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