Lord of the Isle of Wight

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

After the Norman invasion of England in 1066, King William I the Conqueror named his henchman William FitzOsbern the hereditary lord of the Isle of Wight. However, after his son had participated in the uprising of the counts in 1075 , the island was withdrawn from the FitzOsbern family. King Henry I finally gave the lordship in 1101 to his loyal knight Richard de Redvers , in whose family it remained hereditary from then on.

King Edward I went to great lengths to gain possession of the Isle of Wight, which was important for the control of the English Channel . But it was only on her deathbed one day before her death on November 9, 1293, that the last childless Redvers Countess of Devon was ready to sell the island to the king for 6,000 marks. Her cousin Hugh de Courtenay of Okehampton then fought for several years over the Countess' inheritance and was only invested as Earl of Devon in 1335 ; the island remained in the crown property of the English crown.

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

Lords of the Isle of Wight, 1st award (1066)

Lords of the Isle of Wight, 2nd award (1101)

literature

  • Michael Prestwich: Edward I (1988), pp. 352-353
  • Noël Denholm-Young: Edward I and the Sale of the Isle of Wight , in: English Historical Review (EHR) 44 (1929), pp. 433-438