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ODO1 OF See also: bishop and See also: English See also: earl, was a uterine See also: brother of See also: William the Conqueror, from whom he received, while still a youth, the see of
See also: Bayeux (1049)
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But his active career was that of a See also: warrior and states-See also: man
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He found See also: ships for the invasion of See also: England and fought in See also: person at Senlac; in 1067 he became earl of Kent, and for some years he was a trusted royal See also: minister
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At times he acted as See also: viceroy in William's See also: absence; at times he led the royal forces to chastise rebellions
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But in 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned for having planned a military expedition to See also: Italy
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He was accused of desiring to make himself See also: pope; more probably he thought of serving as a papal See also: condottiere against the emperor See also: Henry IV
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The Conqueror, when on his
See also: death-See also: bed, reluctantly permitted See also: Odo's See also: release (ro87)
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The bishop returned to his earldom and soon organized a See also: rebellion with the See also: object of handing over England to his eldest See also: nephew, Duke Robert
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William Rufus, to the disgust of his supporters, permitted Odo to leave the See also: kingdom after the collapse of this design (ro88), and thenceforward Odo was the right-See also: hand man of Robert in See also: Normandy
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He took See also: part in the agitation for the First Crusade, and started in the duke's See also: company for See also: Palestine, but died on the way, at Palermo (See also: February 1097)
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Little See also: good is recorded of Odo
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His vast See also: wealth was gained by extortion and robbery
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His ambitions were boundless and his morals lax . But he was a See also: patron of learning and, like most prelates of his age, a See also: great architect
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He rebuilt the See also: cathedral of his see, and may perhaps have commissioned the unknown artist of the celebrated Bayeux See also: tapestry
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See the authorities cited for WILLIAM I. and WILLIAM II., the See also: biographical sketch in Gallia Christiana, xi
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353-360; H
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Wharton Anglia Sacra, i
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334-339 (1691); and F
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R
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Fowke, The Bayeux Tapestry (See also: London, 1898)
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