Wihtgar
Role: leader · First appears: A.D. 449–556
Life events
- 514 · Stuff and Wihtgar fought the Britons and put them to flight.(A.D. 449–556)
- With: Stuff
- “And Stuff and Wihtgar fought with the Britons, and put them to flight.”
- 534 · Cynric and his people gave the Isle of Wight to his two nephews, Stuff and Wihtgar.(A.D. 449–556 · 📍 Isle of Wight)
- 544 · Wihtgar died and was buried at Carisbrook.(A.D. 449–556 · 📍 Carisbrook)
- “This year died Wihtgar; and men buried him at Carisbrook.”
A.D. 449–556
- allies with Stuff “And Stuff and Wihtgar fought with the Britons, and put them to flight.”
- elder kin: Cerdic (The passage calls Stuff and Wihtgar the two leaders' nephews.) “And they gave to their two nephews, Stuff and Wihtgar, the whole of the Isle of Wight.”
- elder kin: Cynric (The passage calls Stuff and Wihtgar the two leaders' nephews.) “And they gave to their two nephews, Stuff and Wihtgar, the whole of the Isle of Wight.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.