Odo (Aquitaine)

Odo or Otto ( French . Eudes or Odon , lat . Odonis ) (* around 1010 , † 10. March 1039 ) from the family of ramnulfids was Duke of Gascony from 1032 and from 1038 Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou . He was the second son of Duke Wilhelm V of Aquitaine and Prisca of Gascogne, daughter of Wilhelm II and sister of Sancho VI.

The chronicles of Saint-Maixent and Ademar von Chabannes are the main sources for his reign. Together with his parents and his brother Theobald, who died young, before 1018 he made donations to Saint-Cyprien . He lived for the successor of his uncle in Gascony, but received only part of it in 1032: Berengar , a grandson of Sanchos VI., Appears as Count of Gascogne until 1036, either in his own right or as Odos Regent.

Odo followed his half-brother Wilhelm VI in 1038 . as Duke of Aquitaine. For his rights in Poitou he had to fight against his stepmother Agnes of Burgundy and his half-brother Wilhelm VII . He died in a skirmish at Mauzé defending his recently acquired title. He was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Maillezais next to his father and brother.

Footnotes

1. ↑ 1040 in Higounet, p. 105.
2. ↑ Maybe his half-brother Wilhelm VI.

literature

• Charles Higounet: Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age. Bordeaux, 1963.

predecessor	Office	successor
William VI.	Duke of Aquitaine 1038-1039	William VII
William VI.	Count of Poitou 1038-1039	William VII
Sancho Wilhelm	Duke of Gascony 1032-1039	Bernard of Armagnac