The article is devoted to the analysis of Orderick Vitaliy’s story about the death of William the Conqueror (1087) and its importance in the political polemics during the reign of Henry I. The author examines the details of king William the Conqueror’s death, which have provoked a lot of arguments for the last decades, considering a difficult structure of Orderick Vitaliy’s text and taking into account the pragmatics of the period.
