Odo (french: Eudes or ''Odon'', la, Odonis; c. 1010 – 10 March 1039/1040) was
Duke of Gascony
The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia ( eu, Baskoniako dukerria; oc, ducat de Gasconha; french: duché de Gascogne, duché de Vasconie) was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the m ...
from 1032 and then
Duke of Aquitaine
The Duke of Aquitaine ( oc, Duc d'Aquitània, french: Duc d'Aquitaine, ) was the ruler of the medieval region of Aquitaine (not to be confused with modern-day Aquitaine) under the supremacy of Frankish, English, and later French kings.
As su ...
and
Count of Poitou
Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or ''Poitou'', in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine) are:
*Bodilon
* Warinus (638–677), son of Bodilon
* Hatton (735-778)
Carolingian Counts
...
from 1038.
He was a member of the
House of Poitiers
The Ramnulfids, or the House of Poitiers, were a French dynasty ruling the County of Poitou and Duchy of Aquitaine in the 9th through 12th centuries. Their power base shifted from Toulouse to Poitou. In the early 10th century, they contested th ...
, the second son of
William V of Aquitaine
William the Great (french: Guillaume le Grand; 969 – 31 January 1030) was duke of Aquitaine (as ) and count of Poitou (as or III) from 990 until his death. Upon the death of the emperor Henry II, he was offered the kingdom of Ital ...
, the eldest by his second wife Brisca, daughter of
William II of Gascony
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
.
The ''
Chronicle of Saint-Maixent
A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...
'' and
Adhemar of Chabannes Adhemar is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Adhemar of Salerno (died 861), prince
* Adhemar of Capua (died after 1000), prince
* Adhémar de Chabannes (988-1034), French monk and historian
* Adhema ...
are the chief sources for his reign. He was subscribing donation charters to
Saint-Cyprien with his father and mother and his brother Theobald, who died young, before 1018. He inherited Gascony in 1032 after the death of his uncle
Sancho VI. In 1033, Odo took possession of the
County of Bordeaux, traditional seat of the Gascon dukes.
At the death of his half-brother
William VI in 1038, he succeeded as Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou. However, he was killed while asserting his rights in Poitou against his stepmother Agnes and his half-brother
William VII. He died in battle at
Mauzé defending his recently acquired title there. He was buried in the abbey of Saint-Pierre at
Maillezais
Maillezais () is a Communes of France, commune in the Vendée Departments of France, department in the Pays de la Loire Regions of France, region in western France.
It was once an island in the Marais Poitevin, until monks of the Maillezais Abbey ...
beside his father and brother.
See also
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Dukes of Aquitaine family tree
The Duke of Aquitaine ( oc, Duc d'Aquitània, french: Duc d'Aquitaine, ) was the ruler of the medieval region of Aquitaine (not to be confused with modern-day Aquitaine) under the supremacy of Frankish, English, and later French kings.
As su ...
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