Eudes (Champagne) de Troyes (abt. 1040 - bef. 1107)

Born about 1040 in Troyes, Champagne, France

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"witnessed charter dated to [6 Dec 1047/31 Aug 1055] under which the canons of St Maurice d'Angers temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué.

1048: succeeded father as Comte de Troyes.

succeeded as Comte d’Aumâle, de iure uxoris.

before 1071: disinherited; sought refuge in Normandy.

1087: granted lordship of Holderness (the so-called Barony of Burstwick, including the castle of Skipsea) by William I of England, following forfeit of Drogo de La Beuvrière. ^[1]

Died in prison bet. Jan. 1096 and 2 Aug. 1107^{[citation needed]}

Orderic Vitalis:

• William I granted "comitatum Hildernessæ" to "Odoni...Campaniensi nepoti Theobaldi comitis" who married "sororem ... regis filiam ... Rodberti ducis".

• “primus Normannorum Stephanus de Albamarla filius Odonis Campaniæ comitis” fortified “castellum suum super Aucium flumen” at the expense of William II King of England and placed there a garrison against “ducem” [Robert III Duke of Normandy], dated to [1089/90].

charter of Henry II:

• donations to York St Mary, including donation of “manerium Horneshay et ecclesiam…et Marram eius piscaturam et Thorp ibi juxta” by “Odo comes et Stephanus filius eius”.

Florence of Worcester

• 1096: imprisoned for conspiracy to place his son on English throne; lost lordship of Holderness.

Albert of Aix

• names "Stephanus de Albemarla filius Udonis comitis de Campania" among those who took part in the siege of Nikaia, dated to mid-1097 from the context.

08 Aug 1111 charter

• Henry I of England confirmed episcopate of Somerset at Bath. ... referred to as “comes Odo” in Lindsey survey 1115/18. "

Odo Count of Troyes and of Meaux (1047-1066), Count of Aumale (1069-1115). He was later also known as the Count of Champagne.

Odo was the son of Stephen II of Troyes and Meaux, and Adele.

In 1060, Odo married Adelaide of Normandy, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and widow of Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu, Lord of Aumale, and Lambert II, Count of Lens. Adelaide (Adeliza) was the sister of William the Conqueror,^[2] and Odo accompanied his brother-in-law in the Norman conquest of England (1066).

Odo had one son with Adelaide: 

• Stephen, Count of Aumale (died 1127).^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ See Sanders, English Baronies p.24 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drogo_de_la_Beuvri%C3%A8re
2. ↑ Bates, David (Sep 2004), "Odo, earl of Kent (d. 1097)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20543, retrieved 23 August 2010
3. ↑ Barlow, Frank (1983), William Rufus (illustrated ed.), University of California Press, p. 272, ISBN 0-520-04936-5

See also:

• Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. I p. 208-211
• fmg.ac
• Wikipedia: Odo, Count of Champagne
• Evergates, Theodore, ed., Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1999) "Adela of Blois: Family Alliances and Female Lordship" by Kimberly A. LoPrete. Page 12.