Odo I (Burgundy)

Depiction of Odos after a seal

Odo I. , called the Red or Borel ( French Eudes I le Roux , * around 1058, † 1102 in Tarsos ), was a Duke of Burgundy from the Capetian dynasty . He was the son of Henry of Burgundy and his wife Sibylle, a daughter of Count Berengar Raimund I of Barcelona . He succeeded his older brother Hugo I in office when he retired to Cluny after the death of his wife .

Together with his brother, Bishop Robert von Langres, Odo founded the Abbey of Citeaux , the nucleus of the Cistercian order . In 1086 he moved with an army to Spain to get his uncle, King Alfons VI. of Castile to help in the fight against the Moors. He came too late for the battle of Sagrajas (October 23, 1086) and the siege of Tudela (1087) was unsuccessful. But in Odo's entourage was his brother-in-law, Raymond of Burgundy , who was married to Urraca , the heir to King Alfonso, on this occasion . Odo's youngest brother Heinrich was later appointed Count of Portugal himself and thus became the progenitor of the Capetians in Portugal, who ruled there until 1853.

Odo joined the crusade of 1101 , in the course of which he died in Tarsus in Cilicia in 1102 . His remains were brought home and buried in Citeaux Abbey.

Marriage and offspring

Since 1080 he was married to Sibylle (* 1065, † after 1103), daughter of Count Palatine Wilhelm I of Burgundy , with whom he had four children:

• Helene (* 1080- † 1142)
  • ⚭ 1095 with Bertrand († 1112), Count of Toulouse and Tripoli
  • ⚭ 1115 with Count Wilhelm Talvas von Ponthieu († 1171, House Montgommery )
• Florine († 1097 Philomelion in Asia Minor )
  • ⚭ Prince Sven of Denmark († 1097)
• Hugo II (* 1084; † 1143), Duke of Burgundy
• Heinrich (1087 - March 9, 1131), monk in Citeaux

Web links

• Eudes de Bourgogne at fmg.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo I.	Duke of Burgundy 1079–1102	Hugo II