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	The name "Odo" in History
		Odo, Bishop of Bayeux was the half-brother of William, Duke of Normandy and later William I (the Conqueror) of England.
		Odo of Canterbury (died in 1200) was an English monk and theologian, known as Odo Cantianus or Odo of Kent.
		Odo was released on the death of William in 1087 and attended the funeral.
	www.renefiles.com /odohist.html (2695 words)

	Odo of Bayeux
		Whatever the reason, Odo spent the next 5 years in prison, and his English estates were taken back by the king, as was his office as earl of Kent.
		Odo was not however deposed as bishop of Bayeux.
		After the king's death Odo returned to his earldom and soon organized a rebellion in support of William's son Robert Curthose.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/o/od/odo_of_bayeux.html (514 words)

	People in the Bayeux Tapestry
		Odo's father was Herluin, Viscount of Conteville and his mother was Herleva who was also the mother of Duke William of Normandy.
		Odo was made Earl of Kent and often ruled England when William was in Normandy.
		Odo was sent to prison in Rouen, and only released shortly before William died.
	www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk /BayeuxPeople.htm (929 words)

	Essential Norman Conquest - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Odo was, as the Bayeux Tapestry shows, present at the battle at Senlac Hill and in order to ensure the protection of his new country's eastern flank, William made him earl of Kent.
		Odo's private life left something to be desired in a man of the church, but he did undertake the construction of the cathedral in Bayeux and commissioned the Tapestry to be displayed in it.
		Exactly what the reason was for a complete breakdown in the relationship between the half-brothers is unclear, but in 1082 William arrested Odo and he was kept in prison until the former's death in 1087 although he was not deprived of his lands and property.
	www.essentialnormanconquest.com /encyclopedia/odo.htm (225 words)

	Sights in Bayeux France
		Bayeux is a small town in the heart of the Normandy region and only a few from the D-day beaches.
		Bayeux was one of the first villages liberated by the Allies in 1944 and it makes an excellent base for visiting the D-day beaches.
		Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux)- A few years after the Battle of Hastings, Bishop Odo of Bayeux commissioned a work of embroidery to hang in the town's cathedral.
	www.travelswithfriends.com /Sights_Bayeux.htm (902 words)

	Odo Of Bayeux - LoveToKnow 1911
		He was accused of desiring to make himself pope; more probably he thought of serving as a papal condottiere against the emperor Henry IV.
		William Rufus, to the disgust of his supporters, permitted Odo to leave the kingdom after the collapse of this design (1088), and thenceforward Odo was the right-hand man of Robert in Normandy.
		He rebuilt the cathedral of his see, and may perhaps have commissioned the unknown artist of the celebrated Bayeux tapestry.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Odo_Of_Bayeux (306 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Odo (Bishop of Bayeux)
		Odo,the Bishop or Bayeux, became William the Conqueror's deputy in England and was assisted by William Fitz Osbern until Osbern's death in 1071.
		Thomas of Bayeux, a pupil of Odo (William's brother), was put in the position of Archbishop of York after the death of Ealred who died on September 11, 1069.
		Odo and the Bishop of Durham, both leaders of the revolt, were exiled to Normandy.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hpr301.htm (491 words)

	Bayeux
		As a former Roman city, Bayeux had been given a bishop at the end of the Roman period.
		1049) and Odo of Bayeux (1049-1097), half-brother of William the Conqueror, were related to the ducal family.
		In addition, the episcopal town was largely destroyed in 1105 by the troops of Henry I during the civil war which set the sons of William the Conqueror against each other.
	www.mondes-normands.caen.fr /angleterre/cultures/GB_FR/culture8_3.htm (321 words)

	Bayeux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the chief-town of the arrondissement of Bayeux and of the canton of Bayeux.
		Bayeux is located just a few kilometres from the coast of the English Channel, and between the city of Caen to the east and the base of the Cotentin Peninsula to the west.
		Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitors for the Bayeux tapestry, made to commemorate the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bayeux (342 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry is a needlework panorama, representing the invasion and conquest of England by William the Conqueror, preserved in the Musée de la Reine Mathilde in Bayeux, France.
		Odo became bishop of Bayeux in 1049 and accompanied William’s invasion of England in 1066, taking part in the Battle of Hastings.
		During a number of William's later expeditions, Odo acted as regent, and he was noted for the harshness of his rule.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-TapestryBayeux.htm (791 words)

	Medieval Wiki - People > Odo of Bayeux
		Odo was the half brother of William I and at one time he held a very high position within England, his wealth and power almost rivaled Williams.
		Odo and William were never reconciled and Odo spent the rest of William's life imprisoned.
		Odo went with Robert on crusade (William must have been pleased to be rid of two troublesome family members) but he did not come back dying in Palermo in 1097.
	www.shadowedrealm.com /wiki/article/Odo_of_Bayeux (373 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Bayeux tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is not actually a tapestry (that is, a weaving), but is embroidery.
		However, it was probably made in a workshop on the orders of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, who was William's half-brother.
		The misidentification of Harold II of England in the tapestry has led to the widespread but incorrect idea that Harold was killed by an arrow striking his eye.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~kemmer/Words04/history/bayeux.html (299 words)

	Hall of Fame DoverWeb Dover Kent England
		Odo was granted manors in thirteen counties which gave him an income of over £3,000 per year, making him the richest tenant-in-chief in the kingdom.
		Odo was present at the council of Clermont in November 1095, when Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade.
		Odo of Bayeux is buried in the cathedral on Sicily.
	www.dover-web.co.uk /hall_of_fame.asp (1755 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry of Reading
		rant in Bayeux, Normandy, is the Bayeux Tapestry, not a woven tapestry at all but instead a 230'-9" (nearly 70m) strip of linen averaging 18 to 20" (46-51cm) in width.
		Numbered amongst the treasures of the Cathedral of Bayeux in an accounting of 1476, it was nearly cut up for use as munitions waggon coverings in the 18th century.
		If as Jan Messent suggests the Bayeux Tapestry was the work of six or seven English convents, most within ten or fifteen miles of the next, the conditions under which it was created were not dissimilar from those shared by Elizabeth Wardle's dedicated band of local women.
	www.octavia.net /text/bayeux.htm (2649 words)

	History of Odo of Bayeux
		Birth of Odo of Bayeux, son of Herleva & Herluin de Conteville
		The Bayeux Tapestry is 1st shown at the dedication of Beyeux Cathedral
		Odo had control of Rochester castle, but is forced into exile by William Rufus
	www.badley.info /history/Bayeux-Odo-of-France.biog.html (185 words)

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		The victory of Formigny, near Bayeux, caused the fall of the last fortresses still kept by the English.
		Odo of Bayeux had been left in control of England while William was in Normandy.
		He returned to England and Odo was arrested and charged with misgovernment and oppression.
	www.lycos.com /info/normandy--bayeux-tapestry.html (526 words)

	Norman Conquest of England - The Entire Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry has preserved the glory of the Norman Conquest of England, and the drama of Harold of Wessex and Duke William of Normandy for over 900 years.
		Usually attributed to William's wife Matilda, the Bayeux Tapestry in fact was more likely commisioned by William's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux (also Earl of Kent), for display in the Bayeux Cathedral, which was consecrated just eleven years after Hastings.
		Following is the complete Bayeux Tapestry including the literal latin translation, and a description of the events depicted in each of the 48 web-sized panels.
	members.tripod.com /~mr_sedivy/med_bay.html (523 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry by Michael Leete
		The Bayeux Tapestry used to be displayed in Bayeux Cathedral.
		The Bayeux Tapestry begins with Harold, Earl of Wessex, and a companion, in an audience with King Edward the Confessor.
		At Hastings, Duke William and his half-brothers, Robert and Odo, confer and a motte is raised with a wooden castle upon it.
	www.bayeuxtapestry.co.uk (783 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry - The Tapestry House
		The Bayeux tapestry is the epic embroidered textile detailing one of history's most famous events, the Battle of Hastings.
		In 1070, shortly after the battle, a wall tapestry was commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William the Conqueror's half-brother.
		Designed and manufactured in Kent, England the Bayeux Tapestry is 230ft long and 20 inches high, and survives to this day in a specially constructed museum in Bayeux, Northern France.
	www.thetapestryhouse.com /products/list/medieval-bayeux.html (215 words)

	Odo of Bayeux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Odo fought at the Battle of Hastings and was afterwards created Earl of Kent.
		Odo usually acted as regent when William I was in Normandy.
		In his final years Odo organised the rebuilding of Bayeux Cathedral and is believed to have commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MEDodo.htm (200 words)

	Odo - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Odo count of Paris, French king: see Eudes.
		The songs of entertainers and the song of the angels: vernacular lyric fragments in Odo of Cheriton's 'Sermones de festis.'
		Odo, St The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church; 1/1/2000; E. 73 words
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Odo.html (189 words)

	The History of Britain's Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry is preserved and displayed in Bayeux, in Normandy, France.
		The first written record of the Bayeux Tapestry is in 1476 when it was recorded in the cathedral treasury at Bayeux as "a very long and narrow hanging on which are embroidered figures and inscriptions comprising a representation of the conquest of England".
		The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror.
	www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk /BayeuxInfo.htm (490 words)

	Madeira Threads UK - The Bayeux Tapestry Finale
		To embroiderers, the Bayeux Tapestry is so familiar that we tend to believe there is little we don't know about it: King Edward the Confessor's so-called promise: Earl Harold's forced oath to William: William's revenge in 1066.
		Even to Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the man who commissioned the hanging for one of his great halls, such a reallocation of expert resources would have made no sense.
		We are pleased to announce that The Bayeux Tapestry has now been purchased by The South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust as part of the Healing Arts Programme for the redevelopment of the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, and will be on display there.
	www.madeira.co.uk /bayeux/index.html (1700 words)

	Odo Bishop of Bayeux 1040 Dover England
		Probably the most disliked person in Dover's long history was Odo Bishop of Bayeux he was both greedy and ruthless in his quest for power.
		Odo not only destroyed that but also plundered the landowners of Kent amassing a huge fortune in gold and treasure which he hid for the time when he would realize his ambition to be king of England, he eradicated all Saxon land owners from his Earldom.
		Of this, Herbert's nephew says that the Bishop of Bayeux gave permission for it to be made by his uncle, Herbert son of Ivo"
	www.doverpages.co.uk /odo.htm (255 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Myths and Legends - England - Kent - The Norman Conquest: a family affair
		Odo of Bayeux is one of the most unpopular characters in the history of Kent.
		Odo’s tyrannical behaviour created resentment and unrest across the country, and nowhere was his hand more keenly felt than in Kent, where he became Earl.
		William put his half-brother in control of this strategic position in order to help him secure his new kingdom, but Odo’s repression and land-grabbing soon drove the county into open revolt.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/myths_legends/england/kent (173 words)

	Odo of Bayeux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Odo, the son of Herluin of Conteville and
		In 1049 William of Normandy appointed Odo bishop of Bayeux and over the next few years organized the rebuilding of Bayeux Cathedral.
		William was in Normandy in 1073 and Odo of Bayeux had the task of dealing with the rebellion led by Waltheof and Ralph, Earl of Norfolk.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORodo.htm (437 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry: Odo
		Here we have Odo's participation in the battle as merely beating the boys back into line, which is hardly the heroic action that Odo would have preferred to see.
		Shortly after the battle, Odo was made the earl of Kent, which must have annoyed Eustace of Boulogne, who had clearly set his heart on controlling the port of Dover.
		Bishop Odo and earl William were left behind here, and they built castles far and wide throughout the land, oppressing the unhappy people, and things went ever from bad to worse.
	www.bayeuxtapestry.co.uk /02_odo.html (2727 words)

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