Other name forms: Odo.
Count of Blois, Chartres, Tours (996-1037)
Count of Troyes, Meaux (1021-1037)
Events
Date of Birth: about 982 or 983.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Cawley. Glocker (p. 324) gives about 990.
Date of Death: 15 November 1037.
Place of Death: Commercy (killed in battle).
The date and place are given by Cawley.
Place of Burial: Tours, Abbaye de Saint-Martin, Marmoutier.
The place is given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Eudes I, count of Blois.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (p. 324), and by Tanner.
Mother: Berthe de Bourgogne.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (p. 324), by Le Jan (p. 377), and by Tanner.
Spouse: Matilda of Normandy. Married in 1003 or 1004.
This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 324), by Bachrach (p. 267), and by Saint-Phalle.
Spouse: Ermengarde of Auvergne. Married 1005.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:837), by Glocker (p. 324), by LoPrete (p. 576), and by Tanner. Baldwin discusses her possible parentage.
Children (by Ermengarde):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Thibaut III (about 1010 - September 1089), count of Blois, married (1) Gersende du Maine; possibly married (2) Gundrada; married (3) Adela.
Étienne (19 May, about 1048), count of Troyes, married Adela.
Berthe (died April 1085) married (1) Alain III, duke of Brittany; married (2) Hugues (IV), count of Maine.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Bachrach, Bernard S. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, (University of California Press, 1993).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Adélaïde/Alix (Adelaidis, Alaiz, Adelax, Alaicis) alias Blanche (Blanca, Candida) of Anjou” in The Henry Project. (2012)
Cawley, Charles. EUDES II Comte de Blois in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Evergates, Theodore. The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).
Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).
Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe - Xe siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).
LoPrete, Kimberly A. Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067 - 1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).
Saint-Phalle, Edouard de. “Les comtes de Gâtinais aux Xe et XIesiècles” in Onomastique et Parenté dans l’Occident médiéval (2000) pp. 231-246.
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).