Odo, count of Penthièvre
Eudes, in French.
Events
Date of Birth: between about 996 and 1009.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The dates are Odo’s father’s marriage and death. Morin (ch.1, fh. 30) thinks he was born about 1008 or 1009.
Date of Death: 7 January 1079.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:781).
Relationships
Father: Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany.
Mother: Hawise of Normandy.
These relationships are given by Morin and by the Complete Peerage (10:779).
Spouse: Orguen (Agnes).
Keats-Rohan (1999, p. 128; ODNB), citing the notice in the Cartulaire de Sainte-Aubin d’Angers given below, states that she was Anjou, whereas Morin assumes she was from Cornuaille. The Complete Peerage (10:781 n) states that her parentage is unknown.
Children (legitimate):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Adela, abbess of Saint-Georges de Rennes.
Geoffrey I Boterel (died 24 August 1093 at Dol)
Alan Rufus (died 4 August 1093)
Brien
William
Robert
Richard
Alan Niger (died 1098)
Stephen (died 21 April, 1135 or 1136)
Children (illegitmate):
Ribald
Bodin
Bardulf
Ernald
a daughter married Enisan.
Evidence
from the Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Aubin d’Angers (v. 2)
no. DCLXXVII. [1056-1060] A notice by the monks of Saint-Aubin relating how they eventually came into possession of land in Beauvais through a gift of Odo of Brittany.
…Denique etiam ipse partem medietatis ipsius curtis, que Sancto remanere debuerat Albino, comiiti Britannie, Eudoni nomine, dedit, et alias aliis, sicut ejus placuit violentie, distribuit.
Transacto aliquanto tempore, monachi Sancti Albini, tam precibus quam ratione egerunt cum Eudone comite ut terram, que eis injuste fuerat ablata, restitueret; immo vero, propter Deum, non tam redderet quam donaret. Quod ea ratione facturum se spopondit si comes Gausfridus, de quo illam tenebat, annueret. Annuit ille, auctoramento voluntario et publico, et dedit ipse terram liberalitate nobilem qua decebat principem, ab omni dominatu et consuetudine absolutissimam, nichilque sibi in ea retinuit, et quicquid habebat, et sicut tenebat, solidum quietumque contradidit. Et ne post hoc aliqua pullularet calumnia, scriptum hoc inde fieri jussit, quod ipse et uxor ejus et liberi, in plena curia, firmaverunt, et, coram omni suorum conventu militum roboraverunt.
Comes etiam Gausfridus, ne quid firmitati deesset, dono huic, sicut jam dictum est, annuit et scriptum hoc, auctoramento spontaneo, firmavit.
Horum omnium et auctores huic noticie subscripti sunt et testes:
Comes Eudo, uxor ejus Orguen, et filii eorum Gausfridus, Alanus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus; ….
References
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. “Alan Rufus” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. “The Bretons and Normans of England 1066-1154: the Family, the Fief and the Feudal Monarchy” in Nottingham Medieval Studies. (January 1992).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People. (1999).
Morin, Stépane. Trégor, Goëlo, Penthièvre: Le pouvoir des Comtes de Bretagne du XIe au XIIIe siècle. (Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2010).