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Orderic Vitalis
Orderic Vitalis was an English-born monk of the Norman abbey of Saint-Évroul, sent there from Shropshire as a boy of ten. His Ecclesiastical History, written between about 1114 and 1141, is the most important narrative of Anglo-Norman history for the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, covering the Norman conquest of England, the wars of the dukes and the First Crusade.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Orderic Vitalis. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/orderic-vitalis
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