According to Orderic Vitalis, Harold was at some time betrothed to Adeliza, a daughter of William, Duke of Normandy, later William the Conqueror ; if so, the betrothal never led to marriage.

According to the historian Orderic Vitalis, Edgar was one of Robert's three principal advisors at this time.

According to chronicler Orderic Vitalis, the crew asked William Adelin for drink and he supplied it to them in great abundance.

According to Orderic Vitalis only two survived by clinging to the rock all night ; one was a butcher from Rouen, the second was Geoffrey de l ' Aigle.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Bohemond fled to Capua in fear that Sichelgaita, who was rumoured to have poisoned Guiscard, would poison him.

According to the Anglo-Norman historian, Orderic Vitalis, some 10, 000 Mozarabs were sent by Alfonso for settlement on the Ebro.

Duke Robert returned from the First Crusade in triumph, According to Orderic, Curthose was being encouraged to attack Henry by his barons but he remained indecisive until Ranulf Flambard, having escaped from the Tower of London, fled to Normandy where he appears to have influenced Duke Robert to go ahead with his invasion of England and depose his brother Henry.

According to Orderic, Robert played a central role in this rebellion after the death of Elias I, Count of Maine in July of 1110.

According to Orderic, he was poisoned by unnamed Normans.

According to Orderic Vitalis, the nest of an eagle ( aigle in French ) was discovered during the construction of the castle.

According to Orderic Vitalis an English fleet led by Edgar Atheling, the exiled King of England, arrived at St Symeon on 4 March carrying supplies from the Byzantines.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Bertrade was anxious that one of her sons succeed Philip, and sent a letter to King Henry I of England asking him to arrest her stepson Louis.

According to Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury, he tried ( ineffectually ) to prevent Harold from engaging William of Normandy in battle, saying that he instead could lead the English forces and urging his brother not to break the oath which he had sworn to William confirming the latter's succession.

According to legend, when he encouraged Saint Ursicinus of Ravenna to be steadfast at his execution, Vitalis was discovered to be a Christian.

According to legend, the church was erected on the site of the martyrdom of Saint Vitalis.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis reports that the old king had declared to Henry: " You in your own time will have all the dominions I have acquired and be greater than both your brothers in wealth and power.

Fulcher's chronicle was very popular and was used as a source by other historians in the west, such as Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.

If Orderic Vitalis is to be relied upon, one of Malcolm's earliest actions as King may have been to travel south to the court of Edward the Confessor in 1059 to arrange a marriage with Edward's kinswoman Margaret, who had arrived in England two years before from Hungary.

In Normandy, Orderic Vitalis wrote his Ecclesiastical History, covering Stephen's reign until 1141, and Robert of Torigni wrote a later history of the rest of the period.

It was said that Walter, William's maternal uncle, was occasionally forced to hide the young duke in the houses of peasants, although this story may be an embellishment by Orderic Vitalis.

Orderic Vitalis records that late in William's life the king tried to learn to read Old English, but was unable to devote sufficient time to the effort and quickly gave up.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis states that Edwin's reason for revolting was that the proposed marriage between himself and one of William's daughters had not taken place, but other reasons probably included the increasing power of William fitzOsbern in Herefordshire, which impacted Edwin's power within his own earldom.

Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.

Orderic Vitalis later recorded that Odo had aspirations to become pope.

Orderic Vitalis preserves a lengthy account, complete with speeches made by many of the principals, but this is likely more of an account of how a king should die than of what actually happened.

Orderic Vitalis relates an incident that took place at L ' Aigle, in 1077 or 1078: William and Henry, having grown bored with casting dice, decided to make mischief by emptying a chamber pot onto their brother Robert from an upper gallery, thus infuriating and shaming him.

* Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler ( b. 1075 )

* Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote of Harold that he " was very tall and handsome, remarkable for his physical strength, his courage and eloquence, his ready jests and acts of valour.

* Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian ( approximate date )

William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis report that Robert's father, King William, called him brevis-ocrea ( short-boot ) in derision.

Orderic Vitalis referred to William composing songs about his experiences on his return from the Crusade of 1101 ( c. 1102 ).

In Normandy, Orderic Vitalis wrote his Ecclesiastical History, covering the period until 1141, and Robert of Torigni wrote a later history of the rest of the later years.

Stephen had allegedly planned to travel on the White Ship but had disembarked just before it sailed ; Orderic Vitalis attributes this to a sudden bout of diarrhea.

He was found working on it at the behest of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester ( d. 1095 ), when the Anglo-Norman chronicler Orderic Vitalis visited Worcester sometime in the early 12th century.

There is a contradictory account of his death, recorded by Orderic Vitalis ( 12th century ).