Odo the Great

Eudo of Aquitaine (also Odo, † 735 ) was referred to in contemporary sources as dux ( duke ) or princeps ( prince) of Aquitaine.

Its origin is uncertain; as a possible father Boggis is specified. Eudo had two sons, Hunoald and Ato, to a daughter Lampegia (?).

Nominally Eudo was dependent on the Frankish king. His reign may have begun at about 700 as the successor of lupus. Chilperic II and his house Meier Raganfrid turned after their defeat by Charles Martel in 717 at Vincy Eudo and asked him for an alliance; for they offered him recognition as rex, so the legal independence from the Frankish Empire. However, Karl could not be beaten. After a lost battle at Soissons 718 Eudo Chilperic delivered from Karl. Eudo then entered into a treaty of friendship with Karl and received the hereditary right to the Duchy.

The over the Pyrenees advancing Arabs defeated Eudo 721 at the Battle of Toulouse. The Liber Pontificalis, the history of the bishops of Rome, mentioned this success and explains him with gifts - pieces of consecrated sponges - you have the Duke and his "Franken " sent. This message indicates that the Duke of Aquitaine, also maintained that of Bavaria, already own relations with the Curia as the same time. The assurance against further Arab attacks was an alliance with the fallen of the Arabs Berber princes Munnuz, who married the daughter Eudos. On her train to Tours, the Arabs at Poitiers Eudo 732 added a heavy defeat to, but in the end he won along with Charles Martel, the battle of the Roman road from Tours to Poitiers and threw the Arabs from the Frankish Empire back.