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    Orderic Vitalis (Latin: Ordericus Vitalis; 16 February 1075 – c. 1142) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary...
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    the writing of Orderic Vitalis. Historia Ecclesiastica (The Ecclesiastical History), by Orderic Vitalis, particularly books 4 & 5. Orderic was born in England...
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    Countess of Perche, and many other nobles. According to chronicler Orderic Vitalis, the crew asked William Adelin for wine and he supplied it to them...
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    instigator. See: The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, Ed. & Trans. Elizabeth M.C. Van Houts, Vol...
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    to be "a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis, who particularly objected to his many women and his influential footwear...
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    baptized a Christian probably at the same time as his father, which Orderic Vitalis stated was in 912, by Franco, Archbishop of Rouen. William is not an...
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    ed. (1992a). The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni. Vol. I. Clarendon Press. Van Houts, E., ed...
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    Orderic Vitalis. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, Volume 2, Book 3. pp. 49–55 Orderic Vitalis. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis...
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    the later poulaine. The pigache had a pointed and curved toe, which Orderic Vitalis compared with the tail of a scorpion (quasi caudas scorpionum). The...
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    Institute. Retrieved 8 December 2022. Orderic Vitalis. 727 B, 728 D Orderic Vitalis. (ib. 729 D) Orderic Vitalis, Vol. II, Book IV, p. 319. Keats-Rohan...
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    to Robert by his father; the chroniclers William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis reported that William the Conqueror had derisively called Robert brevis-ocrea...
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    Bertrade of Montfort (category Order of Fontevraud)
    Ralph the Asshead. According to the scandalized English historian Orderic Vitalis, Fulk's embarrassment concerning his bunions prompted him to develop...
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    quarrel between the half-brothers. Orderic Vitalis later recorded that Odo had aspirations to become pope. Orderic also related that Odo had attempted...
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    14 September 2012. Orderic Vitalis, op. cit., page 434. "1088 Rebellion Against William II". Retrieved 15 April 2024. Orderic Vitalis, op. cit., page 440...
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    on 13 November 1099.[citation needed] The abbey's most famous monk, Orderic Vitalis entered the abbey around this time, taking solemn vows in 1091; his...
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  • activities in the rebellion against Henry I of 1110-1112, the chronicler Orderic Vitalis, in Book XI of his Historia Ecclesiastica, calls Robert "grasping and...
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    uncharacteristic of Orderic to speak in praise of an aristocratic woman in this manner. See: Marjorie Chibnall, "Women in Orderic Vitalis', The Haskins Society...
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    by other historians since it relies purely on the evidence from Orderic Vitalis. Orderic was born nine years after the Battle of Hastings, and earlier chroniclers...
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  • account of these events can be found in the Historia Ecclesiastica by Orderic Vitalis. Juliane de Fontevrault was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I of...
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  • century) Evagrius Scholasticus Tyrannius Rufinus, translating Eusebius Orderic Vitalis#The Historia Ecclesiastica Socrates Scholasticus Sozomen Theodoret...
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    Cumbrians. There is a contradictory account of his death, recorded by Orderic Vitalis (12th century). According to this account, Edgar was killed by his...
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    2008), p. 38 The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, Vol. II, Ed. & Trans. Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts...
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  • known about William of Poitiers, with most information coming from Orderic Vitalis in his Historia Ecclesiactica, written in 1114–1115 and 1125.: 84 ...
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  • ace Mark Vitalis (born 1968), West Indian cricketer Orderic Vitalis (1075–c. 1142), English chronicler and Benedictine monk Vangelis Vitalis (born 1969)...
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  • waged war on Robert of Bellême, due to a land dispute. According to Orderic Vitalis, Geoffrey contested the distribution of the Belleme inheritance between...
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    and received his education from Thierry de Mathonville. According to Orderic Vitalis, William's nickname was "Calculus". The meaning behind this nickname...
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  • of Fulbert. Early 12th century additions made by Norman chronicler Orderic Vitalis to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum report that William the Conqueror was...
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    made Constance an unpopular duchess. According to his contemporary, Orderic Vitalis, however, Constance was caring, considerate, and well-liked by her...
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  • what point he joined the fight with the English forces. According to Orderic Vitalis, he avoided capture by French forces at Les Andelys in 1119 through...
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    appended to by Orderic Vitalis and lastly Robert de Torigni, who brought the history up to the time of Henry I. Robert relied more on Orderic's work than that...
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