Odo (Eudes) OF ORLEANS
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Odo (Eudes) OF ORLEANS ( -834)

Name: Odo (Eudes) OF ORLEANS 1
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -

Individual Events and Attributes

Occupation Count of Orleans
Death 0834
Group/Caste Membership Udalriching Family

Marriage

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Spouse Engeltrude ( - )
Children Ermentrude OF ORLEANS (830?-869)

Individual Note

Odo I (French: Eudes; also Hodo, Uodo, or Udo in contemporary Latin) (died 834) was the Count of Orléans (comes Aurelianensium) following the final deposition of Matfrid until his own deposition a few years later.

 

He belonged to the Udalriching family and was a son of Adrian, who had also held the county of Orléans, and possibly of Waldrada, a Nibelungid. Odo first appears as an imperial legate to the Eastern Saxons in 810, when he was captured by the Wilzi. In 811, as count (comes), according to the Annales Fuldenses, he signed a peace treaty with the Vikings.

 

According to the Vita Hludowici, in 827, he was named to replace the deposed Matfrid in Orléans. Odo, along with Heribert, a relative, possibly his cousin, were exiled in April 830 by Lothair I and Orléans confiscated. Matfrid was reinstated.

 

In 834, while fighting Matfrid and Lambert I of Nantes, partisans of Lothair, Odo, his brother William, Guy of Maine, and Theodo, abbot of Saint Martin of Tours, were killed.

 

Odo's wife was Engeltrude or Ingiltrud. Their eldest daughter Ermentrude married Charles the Bald of West Francia. He left a son William who was executed by his own brother-in-law in 866.

 

SOURCES:

Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Carolingian Nobility — Descendants of Eudes Comte d'Orléans.

Levillain, L. "Les Nibelungen historiques et leurs alliances de famille." Annales du Midi, 49 (1937) 337-407.2

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 143, 148-15.
2"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_I,_Count_of_Orl%C3%A9ans.