Odo I, Count of Blois

Odo I ( French: Eudes; * 950, † March 12 995/996 ) was a Count of Blois, Tours, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais and Dreux, Lord of Chinon and Saumur. He was a son of Count Theobald of the Deceiver († 975 ) and his wife Ledgard of Vermandois († 978).

Around the year 965 Odo got the castle as a fief of Coucy by the Archbishop of Reims transferred. After the death of his maternal uncle Heribert the Old († 980/984 ) Odo inherited from this county Reims, the Abbey of Saint -Médard ( Soissons ), and the land around Provins and Château- Thierry ( Omois ) with which the house of Blois in the region of Champagne took hold. From his liege lord, Duke Hugh Capet, he was still transmit the abbeys of Saint- Martin and Marmoutier before 984. Latter he dismissed the clunizianischen Association and put a necropolis for his family.

Biography

Odo began generational feud of his house to the neighboring Counts of Anjou. Point of contention for supremacy in the Touraine and Brittany, where both houses were present. Odo supported his vassal Count Conan the Krumme of Rennes in its efforts Nantes, which was controlled by Anjou to conquer. However, in the first battle of Conquereuil 981 Conan was beaten by Gottfried gray jacket of Anjou.

The rivalry with the Anjou was also reflected in their different party names in the power struggle between Carolingians and Robertinern to the throne resist. While Odo from his former liege lord Hugh Capet ( Robertiner ) replaced and went to the Carolingian king Lothar page, Geoffrey of Anjou remained a faithful follower of Capet. Together with his cousin Heribert the Younger took part in the campaign of King Odo to Lorraine, the 985 's which culminated with the capture of Verdun.

The collection of Hugh Capet as King 987 used from Odo to can be transferred from this castle of Dreux, as a reward for his recognition of the ruler change. This led Odo in enmity to the Norman Duke Richard the Fearless, the Dreux actually belonged. But the new King Odo fell after this win again and allied himself instead declared war and Laon had occupied with the Carolingian pretender Charles of Lower Lorraine, the brother of King Lothair, the Capet. After 991 Charles fell into captivity Capet, Odo began to fight the king in the region between the Loire and the Marne. He took possession of the castle of Melun which he did at the Reverend Burchard of Vendôme lost again, by whom he was defeated in addition near Orsay. Finally, after Count Fulk of Anjou Nerra the castles Odos sacked in Touraine, he was forced to 992 to submit to the king.

But already in 993 Odo conspired with Bishop Adalbero of Laon, to, trapped in Mouzon to take the king and his Mitgekrönten son, Robert II and Emperor Otto III. deliver. But the plot was uncovered and arrested the bishop, Odo did the king march against the Count of Anjou. Who built the keep of Langeais in Touraine, one of the first towers of stone. Odo hastened an alliance with the Duke William IV of Aquitaine to respond, husband of his sister, and the Count of Flanders, and even the Duke of Normandy, to besiege Langeais in winter 995/996. As Fulk called the king to help and this appeared with an army on the ground, the siege had to be abandoned.

In the same winter ill Odo and died at the Abbey of Marmoutier where he was buried. He is survived by his underage sons in a dangerous situation that met his widow by a quick marriage to King Robert II. Since she was but related to the young King in canon law to close that marriage to pressure Pope Gregory V. should be divorced.

Marriage and issue

Odo married around 983/986 Bertha of Burgundy ( † after 1010), a daughter of King Conrad III. the generous and Matilda of West Franks. The children of the couple were:

  • Theobald II († July 11, 1004 ), successor ect as Count of Blois.
  • Odo II († November 15, 1037 ), followed his brother to
  • Roger († 1002), since 1002 Bishop of Beauvais
  • Agnes ∞ Gottfried II, Viscount of Thouars.
  • Bertha

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Counts of Blois Count of Tours Duke of Chartres Theobald I, Count of Blois Château de Coucy Herbert III of Omois Champagne (historical province) Basilica of St. Martin, Tours Marmoutier Abbey, Tours Cluny Abbey Conan I of Rennes Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou Carolingian dynasty Robertians Lothair of France Lorraine (region) Richard I, Duke of Normandy Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine Marne (river) Fulk III, Count of Anjou Adalberon (bishop of Laon) Mouzon (Ardennes) Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor County of Flanders Theobald II of Blois Odo II, Count of Blois
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