Odo I, Count of Orléans
Odo of Orléans ( * before 798, † 834 ) is probably identical with the Count Udo in Lahngau. Udo / Odo was first count in the Rhineland / Lahngau, where he is attested 821-826, and 828-834 Count of Orléans.
Descent
There is some uncertainty as to whether the earl Udo, Uodo, Odo Eudes or Otto was said, because all these names refer to different sources to the same person. He was probably a son of Count Erbio ( † after 808 ) and an unidentified daughter ( Gerberga? ) Of Count William of Aquitaine. He would be a paternal grandson of the prefect Gerold II ( brother of Charlemagne and governor of Bavaria after the fall of Tassilo ), a maternal cousin of Count Bernhard I of Barcelona. Also, he is regarded by many historians as the father of Count Conrad from Lahngau which is regarded as the progenitor of Conradines.
Count in Rhineland / Lahngau
Udo / Odo is attested as Count in the Rhineland / Lahngau between 821-826, but then served in the western part of the Carolingian Empire as a loyal follower of Emperor Louis the Pious, to whom he remained loyal during the riots of his sons. In the Rhineland, he is the last time mentioned 826 as the parent Schenk of the imperial court in the Palatinate to Ingelheim.
Count of Orléans
Udo was a favorite of the Empress Judith and belonged to the circle of the counts to his cousin Bernhard I of Barcelona. When the Counts Matfried I of Orléans and Hugo of Tours were punished on a national assembly in February 828 in Aachen for their failure in the rebellion in the Spanish market with the loss of their offices and fiefs, Udo received the county of Orléans. He married a sister of the Seneschal Adalhard, Ingeltrud, daughter of Count Leuthard of FEZENSAC of the family of Matfriede.
In April 830, even before the convened for 14 April 830 to Rennes military assembly, rose Pippin I of Aquitaine against his father, Louis the Pious. He marched to Orléans, where he drove Udo and its predecessor Matfried ( Matfrid ) reinstated. On the national assembly in Compiègne in late April or early May 830 ( at the Ludwig his wife Judith to the monastery prison " pardoned " and brother of fugitive Bernard of Barcelona, Heribert, was blinded to Lothar I command ) sent to the loyal to the emperor Udo at the instigation of rebellious sons of Emperor Lothar and Pepin to Italy in exile.
With the restitution of the Emperor Louis in October 830 and Odo returned to his position as Count of Orléans. He was attracted by its intervention in church property fierce hatred of himself.
A guided by him in June 834 military campaign after Neustria against the Count Lambert of Nantes and Matfried of Orléans, partisans of the rebel Lothar, to which the militia of the areas between the Seine and Loire up into the upper Burgundy had been summoned, ended in a crushing defeat. Odo's army ravaged the country and moved victoriously to the Breton border. There was defeated in a bloody battle after a surprise attack by Lambert and Matfried. Odo himself fell, as did his brother, Count William of Blois, Count Wido of Maine, Count Fulbert and the Imperial Chancellor, Abbot Theudo ( Theoto ) of Tours.
Progeny
Odo and Ingeltrud had three children:
- Gebhard, Count of Niederlahngau
- Wilhelm von Orleans
- Irmentrud ( Irmintrud, Ermentrud ) ( born September 27, 825, October 6 † 869 ), married on 13 December 842 Emperor Charles the Bald