Ordericus Vitalis, a mediæval chronicler, born near Shrewsbury; was a monk of the Abbey of St. Evreul, in Normandy; wrote an ecclesiastical history of Normandy and England—a veracious document, though an incondite; (d. 1143).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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