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.

* Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler ( b. 1075 )

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

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.

Orderic Vitalis, a medieval chronicler, records that Robert fitzThurstin gave the nickname to Ranulf, because Robert resented the fact that Ranulf, though of low birth, ordered the nobility around.

" 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.

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.

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

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.

The chronicler William of Tyre reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century.

The monk and chronicler Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler.

The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France by a formal agreement before his elevation, made at St. Jean d ' Angély in Saintonge.

The 6th century chronicler Jordanes reports a tradition that they had been driven out of their homeland by the North Germanic Dani, which places their origins in the Danish isles or southernmost Sweden.

However the near-contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart reports a " gossipy " tale that Gaunt's sister kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle, Essex, where her family was holding her cloistered as a novice nun in order to keep her fortune for themselves, and took her to her own castle at Arundel.

The medieval chronicler Jans der Enikel reports that the duke appeared in a red-white-red ceremonial dress at his 1232 accolade in the Vienna Schottenstift.

" While he was besieging the city of Acre, Godfrey, the ruler of Jerusalem, was struck by an arrow, which killed him ", reports the Arab chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi.

Byzantine chronicler John Malalas reports that the original dome was 20 byzantine feet lower than its replacement.

In the Viking period, the chronicler Æthelweard reports that the most important town in Angeln was Hedeby.

The Ottoman chronicler İbrahim Peçevi reports in his writings ( 1642-49 ) about the opening of the first coffeehouse in Istanbul:

The chronicler Joinville, who was not a priest, reports incidents demonstrating Margaret's bravery after Louis was made prisoner in Egypt: she decisively acted to assure a food supply for the Christians in Damietta, and went so far as to ask the knight who guarded her bedchamber to kill her and her newborn son if the city should fall to the Arabs.

The chronicler Richer of Rheims reports an accusation of 977 against him of adultery, with Queen Emma of Italy.

However, another chronicler, Gomes Eanes de Zurara reports that the royal family fled to Odivelas ( and therefore not to Sacavém ), and that the queen died there.

The contemporary chronicler Matthew of Edessa reports a pursuit of two days while Ralph of Caen reports three days.

The chronicler Ralph Niger reports that on this mission Eraclius offered the kingship of Jerusalem to Philip II of France and Henry II of England ( but both turned him down ) and to any other prince he came across.

The medieval chronicler Jans der Enikel reports that the duke appeared in a red-white-red ceremonial dress at his 1232 accolade in the Vienna Schottenstift.

In 884, the emir sent two military campaigns into the region and took Zaragoza, although chronicler ibn Hayyan reports that Muhammad ibn Lubb had sold the city to count Raymond I of Pallars and Ribagorza prior to its fall.

The chronicler William of Malmesbury reports that Aubrey represented King Stephen in 1139, when the king had been summoned to a church council to answer for the seizure of castles held by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury.

As the Armenian chronicler Mkhitar Gosh reports in his Ishatarakan (" Memorabilia "), Tamar " married a man from the Alan kingdom, her relative on the mother ’ s side, whose name was Soslan, named David upon his ascension to the throne ".

One of the earliest reports come from the Andalucian chronicler Ibn Idhari Al-Marrakushi in his Al-Bayan al-Mughrib fi akhbar al-Andalus.

The only indication is communicated by the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, who stated that the Bohemian princess at the time of her marriage with Mieszko I was an old woman.

This statement was probably the result of the complete ignorance of the chronicler, since 1018 Mieszko II was 28 years old and was already fully able to exercise the power by himself.

The feast of St. Olaf on 29 July was a day or reunion for " all the nations of the Northern seas, Norwegians, Swedes, Goths, Cimbrians, Danes and Slavs ", to quote an old chronicler, in the cathedral of Nidaros, where the reliquary of St. Olaf rested near the altar.

: The earnest and honest simplicity of the good old chronicler, however, is exceedingly amusing.

When Edward I of England came to Ayr in 1299 following the burning of the Barns of Ayr, Hermingford, an old chronicler of the period, records that:

Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held " imperium ", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

It also has been used to argue that perhaps, Ceawlin did not win the battle and that the chronicler chose not to record the outcome fully – a king does not usually come home " in anger " after taking " many towns and countless war-loot ".

" The chronicler William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.

Robert the Monk is the only contemporary chronicler of the crusade to report that Godfrey took the title " king ".

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark, but as Henry was still a minor and Sweyn was more likely to support Harold, who could then help Sweyn against the Norwegian king, these claims should be treated with caution.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

Early Muslim chronicler Ibn Ishaq tells of a pre-Islamic conflict between the last Yemenite king of the Himyarite Kingdom and the residents of Yathrib.

The chronicler Jan Długosz, known for his antipathy towards the king and his father, alleged that there was something unusual about Wladyslaw's sexuality, though Dlugosz did not specify what: "(…) too subject to his carnal desires (…) he did not abandon his lewd and despicable habits " ( Polish: " zbyt chuciom cielesnym podległy (…) nie porzucał wcale swych sprośnych i obrzydłych nałogów (…)" ).

According to the court chronicler Brantôme, " many people advised the king and the Dauphin to repudiate her, since it was necessary to continue the line of France ".

The Brut y Tywysogion chronicler commented: " that year William de Breos the Younger, lord of Brycheiniog, was hanged by the lord Llywelyn in Gwynedd, after he had been caught in Llywelyn's chamber with the king of England's daughter, Llywelyn's wife ".

The Norman chronicler William of Poitiers recorded that Edward sent Harold to tell William that Edward had decided William should succeed him as king of England upon his ( Edward's ) death.

The king had no option but to return to captivity — the English chronicler Henry Knighton wrote of the event: < div style = " font-size: 90 %;">< span style =" color :# eee ;"></ span > ... the Scots refused to have their King unless he entirely renounced the influence of the English, and similarly refused to submit themselves to them.

Boardman also asserts that much of the negative views held of Robert II find their origins in the writings of the French chronicler Jean Froissart who recorded that ' king had red bleared eyes, of the colour of sandalwood, which clearly showed that he was no valiant man, but one who would remain at home than march to the field '.

The medieval chronicler Roger of Wendover said that the king " had Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury to act for him in the matter of the church property, Geoffrey fitz-Peter in the matter of lay property ; and these two spared no one in carrying out their orders.

The medieval chronicler Matthew Paris retold the story that when King John heard of Walter's death, the king exclaimed " Now for the first time I am king of England ".

The chronicler says that Walter " wished to put himself on a par with the king ".

Robert the Monk is the only chronicler of the crusade to report that Godfrey took the title " king ".

Pierre de l ' Estoile, the chronicler, stated of the king: His coach, entering from St Honoré to Ferronnerie Street, was blocked on one side by a cart filled with wine and on the other by a cart filled with hay ... Ravaillac climbed on the wheel of the above-named coach and with a knife trenchant on both sides stabbed him between the second and third ribs.

Horace Walpole asserts that when Pulteney wished to withdraw from the peerage it was forced upon him by the king, and another chronicler of the times records that when Walpole and Pulteney met in the House of Lords, the one as Earl of Orford, the other as Earl of Bath, the remark was made by Orford: " Here we are, my lord, the two most insignificant fellows in England.

The third, and arguably the most important record, comes from the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, who in his Gesta Danorum described the war fought in 1168 by the Danish king Valdemar I against the Wends of Rügen, the conquest of their city at cape Arkona and the destruction of the grand temple of Svantevit that stood there.

However, he was one of the most educated rulers of his age, e. g. the Polish chronicler, Gallus Anonymus describes him as the king " who was more educated in literary sciences than any of the kings who was living in his age ".

The chronicler Thomas Walsingham reported rumours that the king had him poisoned.