"Age tin trading, and finds of Late Iron Age coins. Julius Caesar reported that the Belgae took the Isle of Wight in about 85 BC, and recognised the culture of this general region as ""Belgic"", but made no reference to Vectis. The Roman historian Suetonius mentions that the island was captured by the commander Vespasian. The Romans built no towns on the island, but the remains of at least seven Roman villas have been found, indicating the prosperity of local agriculture. First-century exports were principally hides, slaves, hunting dogs, grain, cattle, silver, gold, and iron. Ferriby Boats and later Blackfriars"
"The oldest records that give a name for the Isle of Wight are from the Roman Empire: it was then called ""Vectis"" or ""Vecta"" in Latin, ""Iktis"" or ""Ouiktis"" in Greek. From the Anglo-Saxon period Latin ""Vecta"", Old English ""Wiht"" and Old Welsh forms ""Gueid"" and ""Guith"" are recorded. In Domesday Book it is ""Wit""; the modern Welsh name is ""Ynys Wyth"" (""ynys"" = island). These are all variant forms of the same name, possibly Celtic in origin. It may mean ""place of the division"", because the island divides the two arms of the Solent. The Isle of Wight is"
"inhabitants of southern Britain at this time may indeed have been Germanic, rather than Celtic, which could re-open the possibility of the island's name having Germanic roots. The Romans occupied southern Britain, including the Isle of Wight, for nearly four hundred years. The Romans built no towns on the island, but it became an agricultural centre, and at least seven Roman villas are known. The Roman villas at Newport and Brading have been excavated and are open to the public. When fully developed around 300 AD, Brading was probably the largest on the Island, being a courtyard villa with impressive"
"Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight (; also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IoW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel, between 2 and 5 miles off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the Solent. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known for its mild climate, coastal scenery, and verdant landscape of fields, downland and chines. The island has been home to the poets Swinburne and Tennyson and to Queen Victoria, who built her much-loved summer"
"Wihtwara Wihtwara was the kingdom founded on the Isle of Wight, a island off the south coast of England, during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. The name was derived from the Jutish name ""Wihtwara"" (""Men of Wiht""). Its capital was a fort named ""Wihtwarasburgh"". It has been suggested that the modern-day village of Carisbrooke was built on top of Wihtwarasburgh due to the fact that they share their location. It has also been suggested that Wihtwarasburgh was built on top of a pre-existing Roman fort, but this has not been proven. Wihtwara was named, supposedly, after Wihtgar who, along with"
"proposal. History of the Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is rich in historical and archaeological sites, from prehistoric fossil beds with dinosaur remains, to dwellings and artefacts dating back to the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods. The River Solent was the largest tributary of the Channel River that drained the Hampshire Basin from the Early Pleistocene or late Pliocene. During the Mesolithic period, sea levels in northern Europe were some 30 to 40 metres lower than today, and the land that became Britain was a peninsula of northern Europe. The island was formed at the end"
"his brother Harold Godwinson ""...went into Wight, and lay there all the summer and the autumn; and a land army was kept everywhere by the sea, although in the end it was to no avail"". Both men had manors on the island - Harold at Kern and Tostig at Nunwell. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Isle of Wight and the rest of England entered the Norman era. The island has never since been successfully invaded by a foreign army. In the Domesday book of 1086 the Island's name is ""Wit"". William the Conqueror gave its manorial rights"
"History of the Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is rich in historical and archaeological sites, from prehistoric fossil beds with dinosaur remains, to dwellings and artefacts dating back to the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods. The River Solent was the largest tributary of the Channel River that drained the Hampshire Basin from the Early Pleistocene or late Pliocene. During the Mesolithic period, sea levels in northern Europe were some 30 to 40 metres lower than today, and the land that became Britain was a peninsula of northern Europe. The island was formed at the end of"
"Isle of Wight has an active branch of the Pagan Federation (many of whom style themselves as ""Druids"" and of inmates in Parkhurst Prison, paganism makes up the third most popular religion (according to the Isle of Wight County Press. The Isle of Wight was the last area of English paganism until 686CE when, according to Bede, Cædwalla of Wessex conquered the island, killing its inhabitants and installing Christians in their place. A ""sheela-na-gig"" is preserved in the gateway to Holy Cross Church in Binstead. Historically several women were alleged to be witches (such as the nineteenth-century Bembridge woman Molly"
"Wight who are called Jutes to this day."" According to Anglo-Saxon sources, the prefix ""Wiht"" (and, therefore, Wight) were derived from a possibly mythical founding Jutish ruler named Wihtgar. However, the prefix ""Wiht-"" (much like Meon-) may have had Celtic origins: during the Roman era, the name ""Vectis"" was attested (in Pliny and Diodorus, among others). The Jutish communities in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight appear to have been short-lived and to have been assimilated by the surrounding Saxon kingdoms. The historian Robin Bush has argued that the Jutes of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight were victims of"
"1444, Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick a favourite of King Henry VI was given the title (or perhaps nickname) of King of the Isle of Wight. Beauchamp died shortly afterwards and the title was not used again. The closest existing title at that time - the Lordship of the Isle of Wight - was held by the uncle of King Henry VI, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, after being bestowed it in 1434. Wihtwara Wihtwara was the kingdom founded on the Isle of Wight, a island off the south coast of England, during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. The name was"
"named Isle of Wight. Other notable examples include: The Isle of Wight was: Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight (; also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IoW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel, between 2 and 5 miles off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the Solent. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known for its mild climate, coastal scenery, and verdant landscape of fields, downland and chines. The island has been home to the"
"as the ""Fort of the Men of Wight"" (""Wihtwarasburgh""), or alternatively the fort may have been named after Wihtgar. It is believed that the island became a Jutish kingdom ruled by King Stuf and his successors, until 661 when it was invaded by Wulfhere of Mercia and forcibly converted to Christianity. When he returned to Mercia the island reverted to paganism. Arwald was its last Jutish King and the last pagan king in Anglo-Saxon England until the Vikings. Bede describes the invasion of the island in 686 (noting that Bede was writing fifty years later, and some of his dates"
"including weapons, tools, and jewelry) which are from the earlier iron era around the beginning of common era. The Istrian peninsula was known to Romans as the ""terra magica"". Its name is derived from the Histri, an Illyrian tribe who, as accounted by the geographer Strabo, lived in the region. Romans described them as pirates who were hard to conquer due to the difficulty of navigating their territory. After two military campaigns, Roman legions finally subdued them in 177 BC. With the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, Istria was conquered by the Goths, and then by the"
"in parts of Australia). Residents refer to the island as ""The Island"", as did Jane Austen in Mansfield Park, and sometimes to the UK mainland as ""North Island"". To promote the island's identity and culture, the High Sheriff Robin Courage founded an Isle of Wight Day; the first was held on Saturday 24 September 2016. The island is said to be the most haunted in the world, sometimes referred to as ""Ghost Island"". Notable claimed hauntings include God's Providence House in Newport (now a tea room), Appuldurcombe House, and the remains of Knighton Gorges. The island is well known for"
"British tin was shipped from Massalia on the Mediterranean coast of Gaul. Julius Caesar, in his ""De Bello Gallico"", says of the Veneti: ""This last-named people were by far the most powerful on the coast of Armorica: they had a large fleet plying between their own ports and Britain; they knew more about the handling of ships and the science of navigation than anyone else thereabouts."" William Camden, the Elizabethan historian, took the view that the name ""Ictis"" was so similar to ""Vectis"", the Latin name for the Isle of Wight, that the two were probably the same island. The"
"seek an alternative to bronze. It has been suggested that a 1st century BCE reference to ""Ίκτιν"" (""Ictin"") by the Graeco-Sicilian Diodorus Siculus might refer to the Isle of Wight, although St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall is now considered more likely. A century later, Pliny the Elder uses its Latin name ""Vectis"" and in the mid 2nd century Ptolemy confirms the position of Vectis as """"...below Magnus Portus"""" (probably the port near Bosham). The Roman historian Suetonius calls the island ""insula Vecta"" in his account of its capture in year 43, referring to the future emperor Vespasian, who """"proceeded to"
"Wight remained mainly pagan until the arrival of Saint Wilfrid, the exiled Archbishop of York, who converted Sussex around 681 and the Isle of Wight in 683. It remains unclear what ""conversion"" actually meant. The ecclesiastical writers tended to declare a territory as ""converted"" merely because the local king had agreed to be baptised, regardless of whether, in reality, he actually adopted Christian practices; and regardless, too, of whether the general population of his kingdom did. When churches were built, they tended to include pagan as well as Christian symbols, evidencing an attempt to reach out to the pagan Anglo-Saxons,"
"abandoned and since destroyed. The seaport at Cowes, Isle of Wight was the first stop on English soil before crossing the Atlantic Ocean with many ships loaded with Germans and Swiss passengers leaving from Rotterdam going to the New World destination of the port City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These Germans and Swiss passengers where going to become British subjects in Colonial America, and the English Captain's made a written record of the stop in Cowes, England. It is believed that the building of an 80-ton, 60-man vessel called ""Rat o' Wight"" on the banks of the river Medina in 1589"
"After the Norman Conquest the Isle of Wight was given to the de Redvers family in 1101 who were known as ""Lords of the Isle of Wight"". However the last of them was Izabel de Forz (also known as Isabella de Fortibus; 1237–1293), who was known informally as the ""Queen of the Isle of Wight"". Forz was visited shortly before her death by King Edward Longshanks (known later as Edward I), who said later that she had sold the Isle of Wight to him for 6,000 marks. The village of Queens Bower is said to be named after her. In"
"Insular Celtic group. What languages were spoken in the islands before is unknown, though they are assumed to have been Pre-Indo-European. In 55 and 54 BC, Roman general and future dictator Gaius Julius Caesar launched two separate invasions of the British Isles, though neither resulted in a full Roman occupation of the island. From AD 40 to about AD 410, southern Britain was a part of the Roman Empire, with archaeologists referring to this area as ""Roman Britain"", and this time span the ""Romano-British period"" or the ""Roman Iron Age"". In and around the same time period, Ireland was being"
"the Isle of Wight and the nearby southern coast of Hampshire. A number of Anglo-Saxon settlements are located near or at Roman-era towns, but the question of simultaneous town occupation by the Romano-Britons and a nearby Anglo-Saxon settlement (i.e., suggesting a relationship) is not confirmed. At Roman Caistor-by-Norwich, for example, recent analysis suggests that the cemetery post-dates the town's virtual abandonment. The earliest cemeteries that can be classified as Anglo-Saxon are found in widely separate regions and are dated to the early 5th century. The exception is in Kent, where the density of cemeteries and artifacts suggest either an exceptionally"
"youth, he also had taken the King's sons as ""obsides"" or hostages, back to Rome, partially to be educated. The Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to the establishment of the Roman province known in Latin as ""Britannia"". The Romans never successfully conquered the whole island, building Hadrian's Wall as a boundary with ""Caledonia"", which covered roughly the territory of modern Scotland, although the whole of the boundary marked by Hadrian's Wall lies within modern-day Northern England. A southern part of what is now Scotland was occupied by the Romans for about 20 years in the"
"Lord of the Isle of Wight The Lord of the Isle of Wight is a title that began when William the Conqueror granted the Isle of Wight to William Fitz Osbern. It was a hereditary title. The last Lord of the Island of Wight was actually not a lord but a lady. Countess Isabella de Fortibus acquired the lordship when her brother died in 1262. The countess had been widowed in 1261 and became the wealthiest female in the British Islands who was not a member of a royal family. Isabella dwelt in Carisbrooke Castle. She exercised her rights and"
"south-western peninsula were known respectively as North Wales and West Wales. The Celtic north of England and southern Scotland was referred to in Welsh as Hen Ogledd (""old north""). The struggles of this period have given rise to the legends of Uther Pendragon and King Arthur. There are many theories, but it is sometimes said that Ambrosius Aurelianus, the leader of the Romano-British forces, was the model for the former, and that Arthur's court of Camelot is an idealised Welsh and Cornish memory of pre-Saxon Romano-British civilisation. Romano-British culture Romano-British culture is the culture that arose in Britain under the"
"rule lasted over 300 years. The campaigns of conquest are the most widely known feature of Wales during the Roman era, because of the spirited, but ultimately unsuccessful, defence of their homelands by two native tribes: the Silures and the Ordovices. Roman rule in Wales was a military occupation, save for the southern coastal region of south Wales, east of the Gower Peninsula, where there is a legacy of Romanisation. The only town in Wales founded by the Romans, Caerwent, is in south east Wales. Both Caerwent and Carmarthen, also in southern Wales, became Roman ""civitates"". Wales had a rich"
"raiders when they were unable to reach Normandy. Later, both Earl Tostig and his brother Harold Godwinson (who became King Harold II) held manors on the island. The Norman Conquest of 1066 created the position of Lord of the Isle of Wight; the island was given by William the Conqueror to his kinsman William FitzOsbern. Carisbrooke Priory and the fort of Carisbrooke Castle were then founded. Allegiance was sworn to FitzOsbern rather than the king; the Lordship was subsequently granted to the de Redvers family by Henry I, after his succession in 1100. For nearly 200 years the island was"
"remained to be addressed by Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians. In the Neretva Delta in the South, there was the important influence of Hellenistic Greco-Illyrian tribe of the Daors. Illyrian tribes conquered Greek colonies on Dalmatian islands. The Queen Teuta of ""Issa"" (Today Issa island is known as the island of Vis.) is famous because she waged wars with Romans. But finally, Romans subdued Illyrians ethno-tribal groups in the 1st Century BC. After that, these Illyrian provinces became parts of Rome and New Rome (Byzantium). Greek sailors and merchants from the Greek City States of the south"
"to his kinsman William FitzOsbern, who became Lord of the Isle of Wight. Carisbrooke Priory and the fort of Carisbrooke Castle were founded (probably the site had previously been fortified, originally by Romans and subsequently by Jutes or Saxons; there are remains of a late Saxon wall or ""burgh"" as defence against Viking raiders). Thereafter allegiance on the island was sworn to FitzOsbern as 'Lord' rather than the king, a role subsequently granted to the de Redvers family by Henry I after his succession in 1100. For nearly 200 years the island was a semi-independent feudal fiefdom, with the de"
"Roman Britain Roman Britain ( or, later, """", ""the Britains"") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD. It comprised almost all of England and Wales and, for a short period, southern Scotland. Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 and 54 BC as part of his Gallic Wars. According to Caesar, the Britons had been overrun or culturally assimilated by other Celtic tribes during the British Iron Age and had been aiding Caesar's enemies. He received tribute, installed a friendly king over the Trinovantes, and returned to"
"""Chronicle"" traces the conquest of the island to Cerdic, said to be the king of Wessex from 519 to 534 AD and to whom the British royal family still traces its lineage, in 530 AD. Yet Cerdic's putative conquest is even more dubious than his already-questioned existence, and may be a seventh-century tale sprung from political rivalries. What is known is that Kent at the time was the technological hub of Britain and the bridgehead through which trade from the continent flowed, and that its sixth-century connection with the Isle of Wight supplied the latter with goods and visitors from"
"area. The Istrian peninsula was known to Romans as the ""terra magica"". Its name is derived from the Histri, an Illyrian tribe who, as accounted by the geographer Strabo, lived in the region. Romans described them as pirates who were hard to conquer due to the difficulty of navigating their territory. After two military campaigns, Roman legions finally subdued them in 177 BC. A lot of remains of ancient harbours and settlements still remain today, mostly in Ankaran, Hrvatini, Izola, Koper and Piran. With the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, Istria was conquered by the Goths, the"
"fifth centuries AD, Roman troops and officials had withdrawn from Britain. In Bede's ecclesiastical history, ""Vecta"" [sic], along with parts of Hampshire and most of Kent, was settled by Jutes. According to the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"", Cerdic and his son Cynric conquered the island in 530. The ""Chronicle"" states that after Cerdic died in 534, the island was given to his nephews Stuf and Wihtgar. However, it is uncertain whether ""Wihtgar"", who is believed to have died in 544, was a real person or came from a misunderstood place name. The ""Men of Wight"" were known as ""Wihtwara"". Carisbrooke was known"