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	Ordericus Vitalis
		He considered himself, however, an Englishman, "Vitalis Angligena", and was always full of interest in English affairs.
		The work begins to have real historical importance from about the date of the Norman Conquest, but Ordericus is discriminating throughout in his choice of authorities.
		Ordericus was also something of a poet and there are manuscripts of his collected Latin poems.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/ordericus_vitalis.html (440 words)

	§5. Eadmer and Ordericus Vitalis. IX. Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries. Vol. 1. ...
		The earlier portions of the chronicle which bears Simeon’s name are, indeed, embellished with frequent poetical quotations, but the work, as a whole, is as barren of literary ornament as that of Florence.
		Literature of a somewhat richer colour, and history of a higher order, are found in the writings of two of their contemporaries, one, like them, a pure Englishman, the other a Norman born on English soil—Eadmer and Ordericus Vitalis.
		Ordericus Vitalis, the son of Norman parents but born in Shropshire in 1075, was a writer of much more ambitious scope than Eadmer.
	www.bartleby.com /211/0905.html (903 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ordericus Vitalis
		English mother and a French priest who came over to England with the Normans and received a
		He considered himself, however, an Englishman, "Vitalis Angligena", and was always full of
		date of the Norman Conquest, but Ordericus is discriminating throughout in his choice of authorities.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11278a.htm (435 words)

	1066: A Medieval Mosaic (Medieval Mosaic)
		[Ordericus Vitalis.] Ordericus Vitalis relates the particulars of a visit which she paid to the monastery of Ouche, to entreat the prayers of the abbot Mainer, and his monks, in behalf of her second daughter, the lady Constance, the wife of Alan Fergeant, duke of Bretagne.
		It is to be hoped that a feeling of true penitence was mingled with the affliction of the queen, who, at the highest pinnacle of earthly grandeur, afforded a melancholy exemplification of the vanity and insufficiency of the envied distinctions with which she was surrounded, and was dying of a broken heart.
		[Ordericus Vitalis.] As soon as William, who was in England, was informed of the danger of his beloved consort, he hastily embarked for Normandy, and arrived at Caen in time to receive her last farewell.
	www.1066.co.nz /library/queens/chap1x03.htm (5417 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He wrote an eulogistic life of the duke, the earlier and concluding parts of which are lost; and Ordericus Vitalis, who gives a short biography of him in his Historic ecclesiastica, says that he also wrote verses.
		According to Freeman, " the work is disfigured by his constant spirit of violent partisanship." It was written between 1071 and 1077, and was used by Ordericus Vitalis.
		The Gesta was first published by A. Duchesne in the Historiae Normannorum scriptores (Paris, 1619) ; and it is also found in the Scriptores rerum gestarum Willelmi Conquestoris of • J. Giles (London, 1845).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=70446 (246 words)

	Ordericus Vitalis ~ at Runboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		 Ordericus listened to ‘word of mouth’ histories from any source he considered satisfied the maxim known today as ‘l’evidence est la critere de la verite’ (evidence is the criterion of truth).
		No matter,historian-moralists like Ordericus are necessary to record and comment on historical events.However,they do not make History and they never do,simply because they are not the stuff that History is made of.That is to say,neither a Conqueror,a Red nor a Warenne.
		Our Forum's Ordericus is the monk-historian who basing himself on Normandy's Frank-Viking historical identity,recorded faithfully the events as he saw them unfold with the help of past and present data.Among others,he is a historian who deserves to be read by any sources necessary.
	com3.runboard.com /bnormaninvasionchatboard.fmainchat.t52 (1418 words)

	Gundreda Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those who, relying on Ordericus Vitalis, seek to disprove this fact, insist that the words, "filiae meae" in the Conqueror's charter are an interpolation, but a minute inspection of the original MS.
		If there is any foundation whatever on the part of Ordericus in naming her "sister" to Gherbod, we would suggest that she was simply his foster-sister, for we see improbability stamped on the face of any other supposition.
		Against this reasoning, however, it is highly improbable that Ordericus Vitalis, who wrote in the succeeding century, would, in such case, have confined his mention to one wife only; he would assuredly have named the wife of the greatest rank and importance, had he even omitted (which is equally improbable), all mention of another.
	www.oldbooksoncd.com /gundreda_book.htm (3602 words)

	Untitled Document
		(Ordericus Vitalis accuses him of promoting men of low origin to noble status as a reward for their goveling.
		The author, Ordericus Vitalis, was born in 1075, the son of a Norman cleric and an Anglo-Saxon mother.
		The Shrewsbury monastery was ready for inhabitants in 1087,(1) but by that time little Ordericus was in another monastery at Saint-Evroul in Normandy.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/geoghist/histories/histdocts/Biblio12/A12/OdericusVitalis/orderic.html (4855 words)

	steersman
		Another twelfth-century chronicler, Ordericus Vitalis, records that the master of William's ship was 'Stephen son of Airard', evidently the Domesday landowner Stephen son of Erhard (Stefanus filius Eirardi).
		Ordericus told his story in the context of events nearer his own day, the shipwreck of the 'White Ship' in 1120, when the only legitimate son of Henry I was drowned, consigning the country to 20 years of Anarchy after the death of the king.
		According to Ordericus, the shipwreck was in large part due to the reckless seamanship of this Thomas in racing to overtake other ships while 'his judgement was impaired by drink'.
	www.domesdaybook.net /helpfiles/hs2760.htm (516 words)

	waste
		The distribution of waste both before and after the Conquest matches almost exactly the areas known to have been those of greatest military activity in those periods; and all the chronicle sources agree upon the savagery of the punishment inflicted on Yorkshire and adjacent counties after the rebellion of 1069.
		Though a late source, Ordericus based his account on a lost portion of the contemporary biography of the Conqueror by William of Poitiers.
		Ordericus felt so strongly about the evil of what William had done that he told the story twice.
	www.domesdaybook.net /helpfiles/hs3190.htm (559 words)

	Ordericus Vitalis Group. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Ordericus Vitalis" Group developed from some of the courses in medieval Latin held in the Shropshire Archives.
		The group takes its name from the historian Ordericus Vitalis (1075-1143), whose father came to England with Roger of Montgomery and settled in Shrewsbury.
		Ordericus was baptised in Atcham but became a monk at St Evroult in Normandy, where (apart from short visits) he spent the rest of his life and wrote his "Historia Ecclesia".
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /roots/misc/ordvit.htm (211 words)

	St Guthlac and St Pega, Hermits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Ordericus, she went on a pilgrimage to Rome and died there in 719.
		In the thirteenth century, Ordericus visited the monastery and recorded a tradition that it had been founded by Æthelbald, who had confirmed the grant of land he had originally made to Guthlac by a charter (which seems to have been a forgery because it includes anachronisms).
		Ordericus also says that the monastery was destroyed by the Danes in 870 and refounded in the tenth century; there is, however, no evidence that the monastery was founded before the middle of the tenth century.
	www.umilta.net /pega.html (2138 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Ordericus Vitalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ORDERICUS VITALIS [Ordericus Vitalis], 1075-c.1143, Norman monk and chronicler, b.
		He spent most of his life in Saint-Évroul in Normandy.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Ordericus Vitalis" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Ordericu.asp (243 words)

	Northern Lights on the Battle of Hastings
		Harold's presence in Normandy and his oath on the relics is depicted on the Bayeux tapestry, dating from the end of the eleventh century and possibly commis–sioned by William's half-brother, Odo of Bayeux.
		History that is, Edward's bequest of the English throne to William, the two embassies to Normandy to convey that bequest (by Robert Champart and Harold Godwinson), Harold's oath of allegiance on the relics, and his betrothal to William's daughter.
		It appears to be an oral variant of an episode related by Ordericus Vitalis, according to which Harold Godwinson, before riding into battle against William, kicked his mother, who tried to restrain him, with his spur (WJ 2.168; OV 2.172).
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/gade.htm (6231 words)

	The Pursuit of Purity - Papal Reform, 1050-1200
		Appeals to the recovery of an "apostolic purity" are frequent in the reforming literature of the C11th and C12th: "apostolicity," understood largely in terms of removal from tainting engagement with the lay world and its economic and political procedures.
		The extract below comes from the early C12th Ordericus Vitalis and recounts a rather hapless attempt to secure clerical celibacy in the French town of Rouen.
		Important features include the source of the initiative in Papal decrees and the passionate opposition from a clergy long since used to "commerce with females." The account also reflects something of the lay support for clerical celibacy, in this case from shopkeepers and servants.
	www.etss.edu /hts/hts2/info21.htm (1633 words)

	Vitalis Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called the greatest of all medieval chronicles.
		Written in Normandy between 1114 and 1141, it is a detailed history of the Norman people and their conquests, full of vivid portraits of the lives and characters of men and women, kings and queens, lords and bishops, simple knights and humble...
		Italian physical culture demonstration; a report of the visit, training and accomplishments of the forty Italian students who were guests of Bernarr Macfadden during a stay of six months in the United States studying his methods of physical culture
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Vitalis (428 words)

	Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Hildebert, the author of this Letter, ruled the Church of Mans (1098-1125), whence, on the death of Gilbert, he was translated to the Metropolitan See of Tours.
		This is clear, first from Ordericus Vitalis, Bk.
		With them agrees a dissertation by Duchesne, and John Maan’s History of the Metropolitan See of Tours, and so also Ordericus Vitalis on the year 1125 (p.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/bernard/letters.xxxvii.html (753 words)

	Ordericus Vitalis
		Ordericus Vitalis was born at Atcham, near Shrewsbury, in 1075.
		At the age of ten he was sent to an abbey at St. Evroul in Normandy.
		Ordericus Vitalis eventually came to England and built his own monastery at Shrewsbury.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORvitalis.htm (270 words)

	Ordericus Vitalis Group. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Ordericus Vitalis" Group meet each week to study and translate medieval Latin documents, mainly relating to Shropshire.
		When each group of documents is complete, the transcripts and translations are made available for use by others studying local history, family history etc. For details of the progress so far please click here
		Currently a reminder of the declension of Latin Nouns may be found here.
	www.latin-docs.org (223 words)

	Margaret Murray_Fact or Fiction
		For her principle sources on the life of William Rufus, Ms Murray gives William of Malmesbury and Ordericus Vitalis, both Christian monks whose chronicles have the character one would expect of 12th century Christians, where all references to paganism are suitably disguised, or translated to the work of the devil.
		In order to prove her theory of Rufus's divine sacrifice, Ms Murray quotes (selectively) from William of Malmesbury and Ordericus Vitalis at some length, and conveniently ignores any passage which serves to cast doubt upon the veracity of her argument.
		For the story concerning the succession, we have to refer to Ordericus Vitalis, who has this to say: "Prince Henry lost no time in riding as fast as his horse could carry him to Winchester, where the royal treasure was kept, and imperiously demanded the keys from the keepers, as the lawful heir.
	www.shadowplayzine.com /Articles/margaret_murrayfact_or_fiction.htm (1109 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ordericus Vitalis (Historians, European, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Ordericus Vitalis (Historians, European, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ordericus Vitalis[Order´ikus vital´is] Pronunciation Key, 1075–c.1143, Norman monk and chronicler, b.
		He spent most of his life in Saint-Evroul in Normandy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Ordericu.html (161 words)

	Janet's Genealogy
		In narrating his death Ordericus Vitalis says that Gilbert was in the flower of his youth.
		Through the marriages of two of his ancestors with Duchesses of Normandy, Roger the 2nd was closely related to William the Conqueror, to whom he rendered material assistance in his wars with France and his invasion of England in 1066.
		He was in charge of sixty large vessels for the conveyance of troops as state in Ordericus Vitalis, I, 465, note 1.
	www.geocities.com /janet_ariciu/Montgomerie.html (5014 words)

	The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights
		The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights
		Orderic vitalis, born near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent as a child oblate to the Norman abbey of Saint-Evroult, wrote one of the most vivid and important medieval chronicles.
		His world encompassed Shropshire in the aftermath of the Conquest, Normandy in civil war and at peace, and, briefly, the wider French perspective of the priory of Maule.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0851156215 (303 words)

	The Latin Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa
		Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol.
		Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis) First published date [check Auguste Le Prevoste and Leopold Delisle in VIRGO -- 19th C. edition] (2125 KB)*
		Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis 1853-56 (545 KB)*
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /latin.browse.html (196 words)

	Kent & Osborn
		The chroniclers of the period frequently refer to the castle building activities of the Normans.
		Immediately after Hastings, according to Ordericus Vitalis, William ordered castles to be raised at Warwick, Nottingham, York, Lincoln, Cambridge and Huntingdon.
		The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" tells us that in the following year, 1067, while William himself was away dealing with affairs in Normandy, his two co-regents in England, Bishop Odo of Bayeux and Earl William fitz Osborn wrought castles widely thoughout the kingdom and oppressed the poor people.
	mysticwatch.com /kent.htm (1000 words)

	Progress of the Ordicus Vitalis Group. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Summer 2006, the Ordericus Vitalis Group worked on some of these documents - in particular a collection of leases relating to properties in the "villa de Pola" (now called Welshpool).
		These have now been transliterated and translated and a list of them may be seen here.
		Page maintained by Susan Laflin for the Ordericus Vitalis Group.
	www.latin-docs.org /progress.html (118 words)

	Secret Shropshire
		The reliability of this source does, however, need to be questioned, as the information in a Chronicle is only the individuals own views and may therefore contain certain prejudices.
		In this extract Ordericus Vitalis comments on the lack of castles in England before the Norman Conquest saying:
		The fortifications called castles by the Normans were scarcely known in the English provinces, and so the English - in spite of their courage and love of fighting - could put up only weak resistance to their enemies
	www.secretshropshire.org.uk /Content/Learn/Castles/ENormans2.asp (368 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Orderic Vitalis: On Henry I, from the Ecclesiastical History
		Medieval Sourcebook: Orderic Vitalis: On Henry I, from the Ecclesiastical History
		In The Prince, Machiavelli warns those who conquer territories that they will have to kill off a good deal of the old leadership, and he advises them to get the slaughter over all at once, early in the game.
		If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/orderic.html (4930 words)

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