Odo I (; also ''Hodo'', ''Uodo'', or ''Udo'' in contemporary
Latin
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; died 25 May 834) was the
Count of Orléans
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(''comes Aurelianensium'') following the final deposition of
Matfrid until his own deposition a few years later.
He belonged to the Udalriching family and was a son of
Adrian
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The Adria was until the 8th century BC the ma ...
, who had also held the county of Orléans, and possibly of Waldrada, a
Nibelungid. In 811, as count (''comes''), according to the ''
Annales Fuldenses
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'', he signed a peace treaty with the
Vikings
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9â ...
.
According to the ''
Vita Hludowici'', in 827, he was named to replace the deposed Matfrid in Orléans. Odo, along with Heribert, son of William of Gellone, a relative, possibly his cousin, were exiled in April 830 by
Lothair I
Lothair I (9th. C. Frankish: ''Ludher'' and Medieval Latin: ''Lodharius''; Dutch and Medieval Latin: ''Lotharius''; German: ''Lothar''; French: ''Lothaire''; Italian: ''Lotario''; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century emperor of the ...
and Orléans was confiscated. Matfrid was reinstated.
In 834, while fighting Matfrid and
Lambert I of Nantes
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Lambert participated in an expedition undertaken by Louis the Pious in ...
, partisans of Lothair, Odo was killed as were his brothers
William
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,
Guy of Maine, and Theodo, abbot of
Saint Martin of Tours
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.
Odo's wife was
Engeltrude de Fézensac. Their eldest daughter,
Ermentrude, married
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald (; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as CharlesII, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), King of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a series of civil wars during t ...
of
West Francia
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. He left a son William who was executed by his own brother-in-law in 866.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Odo 01, Count of Orleans
Udalriching dynasty
8th-century births
834 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Counts of Orléans
9th-century French people