Odo I, Count of Troyes

Odo (or Eudes) I (died 10 August 871) was the

Count of Troyes from 852 to 859 and Count of Châteaudun through 871.^[1]

His ancestry is not known for certain.

Robert, Count of Oberrheingau and Wormsgau, and Waldrada, a daughter of Count Odo of Orléans. If this theory is true, he was the elder brother of Robert the Strong

.

Like the rest of his family, he was a loyal follower of

Count of Anjou

, and wed to Wandilmodis.

In 852, after the death of

ducatus Cenomannicus and Robert, angered by his loss of influence there, revolted and called in the aid of Louis the German. Odo soon joined him. The brothers were subsequently expelled from their counties and Troyes confiscated and confided to one Rudolph

.

Odo may have recovered Troyes after Rudolph's death (866), but perhaps not. In any case, his brother made his submission in 861 and was given the

March of Neustria

. Odo's eponymous son was found in Troyes in 876. By Wandilmodis, he left three children:

References

^ Chisholm, Hugh; Garvin, James Louis (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Enclycopædia Britannica. p. 320.

Bibliography

de Saint Phalle, Édouard. "Comtes de Troyes et de Poitiers au IXe siècle : histoire d’un double échec." in Christian Settipani and Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval. 2000.

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[1] Chisholm, Hugh; Garvin, James Louis (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Enclycopædia Britannica. p. 320.

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