Render issue for null entity from join fetch

[norad2]

I have an entity that references another entity (but it can have no reference)

I have a page that displays all of the first entity, and the second entity if there is one.

The query is:

select a from Addresses a

left join fetch a.associatedVendor

The associatedVendor is going to be null sometimes. This is ok.

I tried to make it so that when the associated Vendor is null, it would simply not render, but that did not work.

I get an error that says

Unable to find com.company.project.entity.Vendors with id 10

This is the relevant xhtml

<rich:dataTable var="eachAddress"

          value="#{allAddresses}"

       rendered="#{not empty allAddresses}">

     <rich:column>

          <h:outputText value="#{eachAddress.associatedVendor.vendorName}"

                     rendered="#{eachAddress.associatedVendor != null}"/>     

     </rich:column>

</rich:dataTable>

How can I go about displaying the associatedVendor when it can potentially be null/non-existant