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Birth:          ABT  945 Mormontier
Death:          12 Mar  995 Mormontier

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_I,_Count_of_Blois
Odo I (also spelled Eudes) (c.?950 – 12 March 996), Count of Blois, Chartres, Reims, 
Provins, Châteaudun, and Omois, was the son of Theobald I of Blois and Luitgard, 
daughter of Herbert II of Vermandois.[1] He received the title of count palatine, which 
was traditional in his family, from King Lothair of West Francia.

Like his relations, the counts of Vermandois, he remained faithful to the Carolingians 
against the Capetians. Following the war between his father and Odalric, Archbishop 
of Reims, over the castle of Coucy, he received the castle to hold it from the 
archbishop.

In the 970s, in the wars for control of Brittany, he subjugated the county of Rennes 
and Count Conan I affirmed the rights of his family in the region. Around 977, his 
father died and he succeeded in his counties.

In 988, he assisted Charles of Lorraine in taking Laon. In 991, he abandoned the 
Lorrainers at Dreux and besieged Melun, belonging to Bouchard the Venerable, a 
vassal of Hugh Capet. Hugh, with Richard I of Normandy and Fulk Nerra, assembled 
against him and he had to lift his siege.

Near 995, he entered into a war against Fulk, who was already at war with Geoffrey I 
of Brittany. Odo allied with his brother-in-law William IV of Aquitaine and Baldwin IV of 
Flanders. Even his old enemy, Richard of Normandy joined in the war on Fulk. In the 
winter of 995 – 996, they besieged Langeais, however Odo became ill and was taken 
to the monastery of Marmoutier at Tours where he died on 12 March 996.[2][3]

Family[edit]

He married (c. 983) Bertha of Burgundy, daughter of King Conrad of Burgundy and 
Matilda of France.[4] Their children were:
Robert (died between 980 and 996)
Theobald II (c. 985–1004)
Odo II (c. 990–1037)
Thierry (died 996)
Agnes, married Viscount Guy of Thouars
Roger

Parents
OF BLOIS Theobald (Thibault) II "le Tricheur" ("the Cheat") (ABT  911 - 16 Jan  975)
DE VERMANDOIS Luitgarde (ABT  914 - 9 Feb  978)

Siblings
OF BLOIS Odo (Eudes) I (ABT  945 - 12 Mar  995)
OF BLOIS Emma (ABT  954 - AFT 27 Dec 1003)

Marriage To OF BURGUNDY [OF ARLES] Bertha ( 962 - ABT 1016)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF BURGUNDY Conrad (Konrad) I "the Peaceful" (ABT  935 - 19 Oct  993)
OF FRANCE Matilda ( 943 - AFT 26 Nov  981)

Children by OF BURGUNDY [OF ARLES] Bertha  962 - ABT 1016
DE BLOIS Heloise (ABT  980 - )
OF BLOIS Odo (Eudes) II ( 983 - 15 Nov 1037)
DE BLOIS Agnes (ABT  990 - )

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