Wihtwara | |||||||||
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| 534-686 | |||||||||
 The location of the Isle of Wight within the United Kingdom | |||||||||
| Religion | Anglo-Saxon paganism, Anglo-Saxon Christianity | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
• 534–544 | Wihtgar (first; possibly legendary) | ||||||||
• ?–686 | Arwald (last) | ||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||
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 coast of England. Writers such as Bede attribute their origin to Jutes who migrated to the island during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. They formed an independent kingdom at points in the Early Middle Ages, with their last king Arwald dying as the last heathen Anglo-Saxon king. After this point, the island was controlled from Great Britain.