Odo

Also known as: Bishop Odo · Family: Normans · Role: bishop · First appears: A.D. 1066 · part 1

Life events

• 1082 · The king seized Bishop Odo.(A.D. 1074–1082)
  • “This year the king seized Bishop Odo;”
• 1087 · William confined his brother Odo in prison.(A.D. 1087)
  • With: William of Normandy
  • “At length he spared not his own brother Odo, who was a very rich bishop in Normandy. At Baieux was his episcopal stall; and he was the foremost man of all to aggrandise the king. He had an earldom in England; and when the king was in Normandy, then was he the mightiest man in this land. Him he confined in prison.”
• 1088 · They joined a conspiracy to betray William and make his brother Robert king.(A.D. 1088–1090)
  • With: Gosfrith William, Bishop of Durham Earl Roger (father of Robert of Belesme) Robert of Normandy
  • “In this design was engaged first Bishop Odo, and Bishop Gosfrith, and William, Bishop of Durham. So well did the king by the bishop Odo that all England fared according to his counsel, and as he would. And the bishop thought to do by him as Judas Iscariot did by our Lord. And Earl Roger was also of this faction; and much people was with him all Frenchmen.”
• 1088 · Odo swore to leave England, never return without William's summons, and surrender Rochester Castle.(A.D. 1088–1090)
  • With: William son of William
  • “the bishop swore that he would depart out of England, and no more come on this land, unless the king sent after him, and that he would give up the castle at Rochester.”
• 1088 · Odo and the men in Rochester surrendered the castle and went overseas.(A.D. 1088–1090)
  • With: William son of William
  • “The Bishop Odo with the men that were in the castle went over sea, and the bishop thus abandoned the dignity that he had in this land.”

A.D. 1066 · part 1

• with William of Normandy (interaction) “Bishop Odo and Earl William lived here afterwards, and wrought castles widely through this country, and harassed the miserable people”

A.D. 1074–1082

• with William of Normandy (interaction) “This year the king seized Bishop Odo;”

A.D. 1087

• siblings with William of Normandy “At length he spared not his own brother Odo, who was a very rich bishop in Normandy.”
• with William of Normandy (interaction) “Him he confined in prison.”

A.D. 1088–1090

• enemies with William son of William “The Bishop Odo being one, though of the same family from which the king himself was descended, went into Kent to his earldom, and greatly despoiled it;”
• with William son of William (They are stated to be of the same family, with no more specific degree given.) “though of the same family from which the king himself was descended”

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.