Odo, lord of Norton

Also known as Odo de Dammartin.

Name in French: Eudes.

Lord of Norton, Suffolk.

Lord of Mendlesham, Suffolk.

Lord of Strumpshaw, Norfolk.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: by 1129/30.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 431). Bur (p. 344) gives 1130.

Relationships

(probable) Father: Hugues, count of Dammartin.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 431) and suggested by Mathieu (p. 49). Bur (p. 344) calls Odo “un frère présumé du comte Pierre” (a son of Hugues), and cites (p. 339) unpublished work by Jean-Noël Mathieu in support. Another construction makes Odo's wife Basilia the daughter of Hugues.

(probable) Mother: Rohais, possibly daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 431), who notes a suggestion of Mathieu that she was the daughter of Richard de Clare. Bur (p. 342) shows her as a brother of Gilbert, count of Clare.

Spouse: Basilia.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 431) and by Bur (p. 344). Keats-Rohan notes a suggestion that she was a sister of Haimo de Saint-Clair. Bur (p. 344) notes, "Divers indices laissent penser qu'elle appartenait au lignage normand de Saint-Clair-sur-Elle, vassal du second mari de Rohais, Eudes le Sénéchal (+1120)." Mathieu (pp. 49-50) suggests that she was perhaps the sister of Guillaume and Haimo de Saint-Clair.

Children:

(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 Keats-Rohan and from Bur.)

Odo, lord of Strumpshaw (died after 1159)

Aubry (I) le Chambrier, lord of Norton

William

Stephen

Manasses de Dammartin, lord of Mendlesham (died 1178) married Galiena.

Haimo

References

Bur, Michel. “De quelques champenois dans l’entourage français des rois d’Angleterre aux XIe et XIIe siècles” in Family Trees and the Roots of Politics (K.S.B. Keats Rohan ed.) (The Boydell Press, 1997).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Mathieu, Jean-Noël. “Recherches sur les premiers comtes de Dammartin” in Paris et Ile-de-France mémoires, tome 47, (Fédération de sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France: Paris, 1996) pp. 1-59.