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Eudes I OF BURGUNDY (1058-1103)
Name: | Eudes I OF BURGUNDY 1 |
Sex: | Male |
Nickname: | "The Red" |
Father: | Henry OF BURGUNDY (1035-1074) |
Mother: | Sibylle OF BARCELONA ( -aft1074) |
Individual Events and Attributes
Birth | 1058 | |
Occupation | frm 1079 to 1103 (age 20-45) | Count of Burgundy |
Death | 23 Mar 1102/03 (age 44-45) | Cilicia |
Marriage
Spouse | Sibylle (Matilda) OF BURGUNDY-IVREA (1065-aft1103) | |
Children | Helie OF BURGUNDY (1080-1142) | |
Marriage | 1080 (age 21-22) |
Individual Note
Odo I (1058 23 March 1103), also known as Eudes, surnamed Borel and called the Red, was Duke of Burgundy between 1079 and 1103. Odo was the second son of Henry of Burgundy and grandson of Robert I. He became the duke following the abdication of his older brother, Hugh I, who retired to become a Benedictine monk. Odo married Sibylla of Burgundy (10651101), daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy.
They had:
Florine of Burgundy 10831097, wife of Sweyn the Crusader, prince of Denmark
Helie of Burgundy 10801141, wife of Bertrand of Toulouse and William III of Ponthieu
Hugh II of Burgundy 10841143
Henry 10871131, a priest
An interesting incident is reported of this robber baron by an eyewitness, Eadmer, biographer of Anselm of Canterbury. While Saint Anselm was progressing through Odo's territory on his way to Rome in 1097, the bandit, expecting great treasure in the archbishop's retinue, prepared to ambush and loot it. Coming upon the prelate's train, the duke asked for the archbishop, whom they had not found. Anselm promptly came forward and took the duke by surprise, saying "My lord duke, suffer me to embrace thee." The flabbergasted duke immediately allowed the bishop to embrace him and offered himself as Anselm's humble servant.
He was a participant in the ill-fated Crusade of 1101.
SOURCES:
Gwatkin, H.M., Whitney, J.P. (ed) The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume IIThe Rise of the Saracens and the Foundations of the Western Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1926.2
Sources
1 | Weis, 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 109, 108-24. |
2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudes_I_of_Burgundy. |