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Wihtwara (Old English:
Wihtware or Wihtsætan) were the
Early Medieval inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, a 147-square-mile (380 km2)
island off the south...
- or Magonset, a sub-kingdom of
Mercia in what is now Herefordshire; the
Wihtwara, a
Jutish kingdom on the Isle of Wight,
originally as
important as the...
- 686 CE) was the last
heathen Anglo-Saxon king and the last king of the
Wihtwara, a
people group that
inhabited the Isle of Wight. He was
killed by Cædwalla...
- last Anglo-Saxon king to
adhere to the
traditional religion was
Arwald of
Wihtwara, who was
killed in
battle in 686, at
which point Sus**** and Wes**** had...
- The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle also
lists Wihtgar and Stuf as
founders of the
Wihtwara (Isle of Wight) and a man
named Port and his two sons
Bieda and Maeglaof...
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Middle Ages, the
island was
settled by
Jutes as the
heathen kingdom of the
Wihtwara. In ****er’s Life of Alfred, he
states that the West
Saxon kings Cerdic...
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being the
first to
adopt the new
religion around 600
whilst Arwald of
Wihtwara died as the last
heathen Anglo-Saxon king
during an
invasion in 686 by...
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Lindsey (which
survived as the
Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire) and the
Wihtwara (Isle of Wight).
These are
commonly referred to as "petty kingdoms". During...
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initially from the
Saxons and Angles.
Jutes founded kingdoms known as
Wihtwara (Wight),
Meonwara (Meon Valley) and
Ytene (in an area
similar to the later...
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later joined with
Mercia Northumbria –
formed from
Bernicia and
Deira Wihtwara Officially the
Roman Empire was
Christian at the
start of the 5th century...
