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.

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.

* Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian ( approximate date )

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

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.

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.

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 ).

" Another medieval chronicler, Orderic Vitalis, said that Ranulf planned to revise the survey of England, almost certainly Domesday Book, and that he planned to use that revised survey to confiscate all excess holdings over a certain amount.

The medieval chronicler Orderic Vitalis believed that the Normans had imposed a yoke on the English: " And so the English groaned aloud for their lost liberty and plotted ceaselessly to find some way of shaking off a yoke that was so intolerable and unaccustomed ".

The medieval historian Orderic Vitalis, has a different version of this story, he says that Tostig travelled to Normandy to enlist the help of William, Duke of Normandy.

The medieval chronicler Orderic Vitalis paints a picture of Mabel of Bellême being a scheming and cruel woman.

Tostig, Harold's estranged brother, was the first to move, according to the medieval historian Orderic Vitalis, he travelled to Normandy to enlist the help of William, Duke of Normandy, later to be known as William the Conqueror.

Orderic Vitalis ( Ordericus ) ( 1075 – c. 1142 ) was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England.

Orderic Vitalis portrays Robert de Bellême as villain especially when compared to Henry I, whose misdemeanors the chronicler felt were excusable.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis said of the Norman magnates:

More than 100, 000 people perished of hunger ", reported Orderic Vitalis, a contemporary chronicler.

Thomas composed the epitaph placed on William the Conqueror's tomb in St. Etienne in Caen, but the chronicler Orderic Vitalis felt that Thomas was chosen more for his rank than for his skill in composition.

Konghelle appears in writings by the English chronicler, Orderic Vitalis, who named the city as one of six Norwegian civitates.

Though Orderic Vitalis records a ( presumably short-lived ) son in 1181: Bohemond, Duke of Apulia.

Orderic reports on an incident at Easter 1105 when Robert was supposed to hear a sermon by the venerable Serlo, Bishop of Sées.

Henry I of England, the Anglo-Norman king who promised at his coronation to restore the laws of Edward the Confessor and who married a Scottish princess with West Saxon royal forbears, called up the fyrd to supplement his feudal levies, as an army of all England, as Orderic Vitalis reports, to counter the abortive invasions of his brother Robert Curthose, both in the summer of 1101 and in autumn 1102.

Surprisingly for a pro-conqueror text, William's Gesta Guillelmi was an apparent failure in Norman England with no known copied manuscripts produced, this has led to some scholars theorizing that William ended his days in political disgrace Compelling links can be made between William of Poitiers and Duke William's rebellious son Robert, this could explain why Orderic stated that William was unable to finish his history as he was ' prevented by unfavourable circumstances ', however this remains speculation.

Henry I of England, the Anglo-Norman king who promised at his coronation to restore the laws of Edward the Confessor and who married a Scottish princess with West Saxon royal forbears, called up the fyrd to supplement his feudal levies, as an army of all England, as Orderic Vitalis reports, to counter the abortive invasions of his brother Robert Curthose, both in the summer of 1101 and in autumn 1102.

By 1090 Robert was back in Robert Curthose's good graces, Orderic Vitalis calling him a " principal councilor " to duke Robert.

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.

Orderic calls Robert " Grasping and cruel, an implacable persecutor of the Church of God and the poor ... unequaled for his iniquity in the whole Christian era.

At the battle of Tinchebray ( 1106 ), Orderic Vitalis states, Waldric capellanus regis captured Robert Curthose, Henry I of England's brother and leader of the opposing forces as Duke of Normandy.

* The Gesta Normannorum Ducum ( or GND ) of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, edited and translated by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

* The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, edited and translated by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

Calling her " Adelida ", Robert of Torigni follows Orderic in showing her as the affianced of Harold.

In later times, Orderic Vitalis ( d. c. 1142 ) and Robert of Torigni ( d. 1186 ), extended the volumes to include history up until Henry I.