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
literature
- Charles Higounet: Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age. Bordeaux, 1963.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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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 |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Odo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duke of Gascony and Aquitaine, Count of Poitou |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1010 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1039 |