{{Short description|French nobleman (c. 1036 – 1115)}} {{Infobox noble|type | name = Odo | title = Count of Champagne | image = | caption = | alt = | CoA = | more = no | succession = [[Count of Troyes]] and [[Count of Champagne|Meaux]] | reign = 1047–1066 |tenure=| reign-type = | predecessor = | successor = | suc-type = | spouse = [[Adelaide of Normandy]] | spouse-type = Spouse | issue = [[Stephen, Count of Aumale]] | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | full name = | styles = | titles = | noble family = [[House of Blois|Blois]] | house-type = | father = [[Stephen II of Troyes|Stephen II of Troyes and Meaux]] | mother = Adele | birth_date = {{c.}} 1040<!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | birth_place = | christening_date = | christening_place = | death_date = 1115<!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | religion = | occupation = | memorials = | website = <!-- {{{URL|example.com}} --> | module = }} '''Odo''' (Modern {{langx|fr|Eudes}}; {{c.}} 1040 – 1115){{sfn|Bates|2004}} was [[count of Troyes]] and of [[Count of Champagne|Meaux]] from 1047 to 1066, then [[count of Aumale]] from 1069 to 1115. He was later also known as the [[count of Champagne]] and as '''Eudes II of Troyes'''.
==Biography== Odo was the son of [[Stephen II of Troyes|Stephen II of Troyes and Meaux]], and Adele.{{sfn|Evergates|1999|p=12}} He was still a minor at the death of his father, and his uncle [[Theobald III of Blois]] acted as regent of Troyes.{{citation needed|date=February 2011}}<!--for the whole paragraph-->
In 1060, Odo married [[Adelaide of Normandy]], daughter of [[Robert I, Duke of Normandy]] and widow of [[Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu|Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu, Lord of Aumale]] and [[Lambert II, Count of Lens]].{{sfn|Bates|2004}} After the death of Enguerrand's only daughter Adelaide, her mother Adelaide of Normandy became her heir and hence through his marriage Odo acquired the title Count (or Earl) of Aumale in [[Duchy of Normandy|Normandy]] ''[[Jure uxoris]]'' (by right of his wife).{{sfn|Langrishe|1902|p=64-67}}
Adelaide (sometime called Adeliza) was also sister of [[William the Conqueror]],{{sfn|Bates|2004}} and Odo accompanied his brother-in-law in the [[Norman conquest of England]] (1066).{{sfn|Langrishe|1902|p=64-67}} [[Theobald III of Blois]] then seized Odo's counties in the [[Champagne (province)|Champagne]] region,{{citation needed|date=February 2011}} One version states William I, for his services in the conquest gave Odo [[Holderness]] in [[Yorkshire]].{{sfn|Langrishe|1902|p=64-67}} Another proposes that the [[Honour of Holderness|Lordship of Holderness]] was granted to William's sister Adelaide, in 1087, and Odo became Earl of Holderness by right of his wife.
Odo was, with [[Alan Rufus]] and [[Roger of Poitou]], one of the commanders of the army sent by King [[William II of England|William II]] to besiege [[William de St-Calais]] at [[Durham Castle]] after the [[Rebellion of 1088]], and who signed St-Calais's guarantee of personal safety.
Odo was implicated in a plot to place his son [[Stephen of Aumale]] on the English throne.<ref>[[C. Warren Hollister]], 'Magnates and Curiales in Early Norman England', ''Viator'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (1977), p. 68</ref> Stephen was the first cousin of brothers [[William Rufus]], King of England and [[Robert Curthose]], Duke of Normandy.<ref>[[David Crouch (historian)|David Crouch]], ''The Normans; The History of a Dynasty'' (London; New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), p. 147</ref> Stephen was apparently not put on trial himself as he may have been out of the king's reach in Normandy.<ref>Frank Barlow, ''William Rufus'' (London: Methuen, 1983), p. 358</ref> Odo was imprisoned in 1095.{{citation needed|date=February 2011}} Odo lost his English lands for his complicity<ref>C. Warren Hollister, 'Magnates and Curiales in Early Norman England', ''Viator'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (1977), p. 70</ref> but they were restored to Stephen two years after the death of William Rufus.
==Family== Odo had one son with Adelaide, [[Stephen, Count of Aumale]] (died 1127).{{sfn|Barlow|1983|p=272}}
In 1902 Richard Langrishe published a paper in which he put forward the theory that Odo was the primogenitor of the Irish family of Le Gras (Grace).{{sfn|Langrishe|1902|p=64-67}} This amended an older theory that [[Raymond FitzGerald]] (died 1185/1198) was the primogenitor.{{sfn|Langrishe|1900|p=319-324}} However, Richard Roach (1970) upheld the older proposition, but more recently M. T. Flanagan (2004) disagreed with Roach because FitzGerald had no known legitimate heirs.{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=180}}{{sfn|Flanagan|2004}}
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== *{{Citation |last=Barlow |first=Frank |year=1983 |title=William Rufus |edition=illustrated |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-04936-5 |author-link=Frank Barlow (historian) |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=2ulxJ9Dfd9MC&pg=PA273 272]}} *{{cite ODNB |last=Bates |first=David |chapter-url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20543 |chapter=Odo, earl of Kent (d. 1097) |title=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|edition=online |date=Sep 2004 |accessdate=23 August 2010 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/20543}} *{{cite book |title=Aristocratic Women in Medieval France |editor-first=Theodore |editor-last=Evergates |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=1999}} *{{cite ODNB|last=Flanagan |first=M. T. |chapter=Fitzgerald, Raymond fitz William (d. 1189x92)|title=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |edition=online |date=September 2004|accessdate=24 August 2010|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9582|chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9582}} *{{citation|last=Langrishe |first=Richard |title=The Origin of the Grace Family of Courtstown, County of Kilkenny, and of Their Title to the Tullaroan Estate |journal=The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |series=5|volume=30 |date=31 December 1900|pages=319–324 |jstor=25507087|issue=4}} *{{citation|last=Langrishe |first=Richard|title=The Origin of the Grace Family of Courtstown, County Kilkenny. (No 2)|journal=The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland|series=5|volume=32 |date=31 March 1902|pages=64–67 |jstor=25507186|issue=1}} *{{citation |last=Roach |first=Richard |title=The Norman Invasion of Ireland|year=1970|publisher=Anvil Books|isbn=0-947962-81-6}}.
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