Odard

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: presumably Normandy.

Keats-Rohan (p. 307) states that Odard was a Norman.

Living: 1086.

Keats-Rohan (p. 307) states that Odard was a tenant and sub-tenant of Hugh, earl of Chester, in 1086.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Brother: Edard.

Brother: Wolmere.

Brother: Horswyne.

Brother: Wolflaith. A priest to whom Nigel gave the church of Runcorn.

The brothers are given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:643), who states that Nigel, a nobleman, came to England with Hugh, earl of Chester, and with Nigel came these five brothers. It is not clear whether the five brothers were brothers of Nigel, or just brothers of each other. Leycester thinks the latter is more probable.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

(Keats-Rohan gives the children.)

Hugh (died about 1129 or 1130).

Gilbert.

References

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).