Odo I, Count of Orléans

Odo I (French: Eudes; also Hodo, Uodo, or Udo in contemporary Latin; died 25 May 834) was the Count of Orléans (comes Aurelianensium) following the final deposition of Matfrid until his own deposition a few years later.

Odo I
Count of Orléans
Died25 May 834
Noble familyUdalriching
Spouse(s)Engeltrude de Fézensac
IssueErmentrude, Queen of West Francia
FatherAdrian, Count of Orléans
MotherWaldrada (possibly)

He belonged to the Udalriching family and was a son of Adrian,[1] who had also held the county of Orléans, and possibly of Waldrada, a Nibelungid. 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 was killed as were his brothers William, Guy of Maine, and Theodo, abbot of Saint Martin of Tours.[lower-alpha 1]

Odo's wife was Engeltrude de Fézensac.[3] Their eldest daughter, Ermentrude, married Charles the Bald of West Francia.[4] He left a son William who was executed by his own brother-in-law in 866.

Notes

  1. This translation mentions Odo's and Theodo's deaths on pages 47-48.[2]

References

  1. Le Jan 2003, p. 213.
  2. Nithard 2022, p. 47-48.
  3. Jackman 2015, p. 37.
  4. McKitterick 2018, p. 181.

Sources

  • Jackman, Donald C. (2015). Three Bernards Sent South to Govern II: Counties of the Guilhemid Consanguinity. Editions Enlaplage.
  • Le Jan, Régine (2003). Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle) (in French). Publications de la Sorbonne.
  • McKitterick, Rosamond (2018). The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians 751-987. Routledge.
  • Nithard (2022). Conti, Maro (ed.). Histories. Translated by Conti, Marco. Peeters.


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