Odo I, Count of Vermandois

Odo I (Eudes I), called “the Foolish” (fatuus), was the ruler of Saint-Simon. The last Carolingian male (from its branch Herbertines), he was the only son of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois.

About 1077, Odo was disinherited. Odo was possibly mentally ill, since the Latin fatuus can mean Insane, Foolish, Stupid. In the council of barons took the power away from Odo and gave it to his sister, Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois, married to Hugh, son of Henry I of France.[1]

The work Memoires de Saint-Simon continues the family tree forward.[2]

References
  1. Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy duc de (1886). Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon publiés par Mm. Chéruel et Ad. Regnier fils: et collationés de nouveau pour cette édition sur le manuscrit autographe ; avec une notice de Sainte-Beuve (in French).
  2. Memoires de Saint-Simon by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 1675-1755; Boislisle, Arthur André Gabriel michel de, 1835-1908; Lecestre, Léon, 1861-; Boislisle, Jean Georges Léon Michel de, 1876-

Sources
  • De Genere Comitum Flandrisium Notae Parisiensis, in MGH, 1881 https://archive.org/details/sim_monumenta-germaniae-historica_1881/page/256/mode/2up "Comes Herbertus genuit Odonem et Adelam sororem. Odo fuit fatuus et indiscretus. Barones Viromandenses rogaverunt regem, ut Adelam daret Hugoni le Magne, fratri eius- dem regis; quod factum est. Predictus vero Hugo dedit in uxorem fillam cuiusdam militis Viro[mandensis] predieto Odoni Fatuo. De Odone Fatuo et eius uxore exivit Odo Ferrarius, qui fuit pater lohannıs de Sancto Simone, qui adhuc vivit. De predicto comite Hugone et predicta Adela uxore sua exivit comes Radulfus, Simon Noviomensis episcopus, dominus Henricus de Chaumont et quatuor filie; de quibus quidam marchıo Lumbardie unam habuit, secundam® dominus Baugenciaci, tertiam comes Mellenti"

Translation to English: "Count Heribert fathered Odo and his sister Adela. Odo was foolish and rash. The baronage of Vermandois requested of the king that Adela be given to Hugo Magnus, the king's brother [NB the words "fratri eiusdem regis" were inserted above the line, as the editor failed to note], which was done. The said Hugo gave the daughter of a knight of Vermandois to the said Odo the Fool. From Odo the Foolish and his wife came Odo Ferrarius [correctly Frarinus], who was father of John of Saint-Simon living today. From the said Hugo and his wife the said Adela came count Radulf, Simon bishop of Noyon, seigneur Henry of Chaumont and four daughters; of whom one was wife of a certain marquis of Lombardy, the second of the seigneur of Beaugency, the third of the count of Meulan, the fourth of the earl of Warenne."


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