The Lord of the Isle of Wight was a feudal title, at times hereditary and at others by royal appointment in the Kingdom of England, before the development of an extensive peerage system.

The next creation of the title was by Henry I in 1101 for Richard de Redvers, who had been one of his principal supporters in the struggle against his brother Robert Curthose for control of the English throne.

Widowed the previous year, she became the wealthiest woman in the British Isles who was not a member of a royal family.

In the fifteenth century Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester "son, brother and uncle of kings" was appointed, as were members of the Beaufort and Woodville families during the Wars of the Roses.

The last appointee, Edward Woodville, styled Lord Scales, who had supported Henry VII in that conflict, died in 1488.