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ODO1 OF BAYEUX (c. 1036-1097)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 5 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAYEUX (c. 1036-1097)  , See also:Norman 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) . But his active career was that of a See also:warrior and states-See also:man . 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 See also:Kent, and for some years he was a trusted royal See also:minister . At times he acted as See also:viceroy in William's See also:absence; at times he led the royal forces to chastise rebellions . But in 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned for having planned a military expedition to See also:Italy . 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 See also:emperor See also:Henry IV . The Conqueror, when on his See also:death-See also:bed, reluctantly permitted See also:Odo's See also:release (ro87) . 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, See also:Duke See also:Robert . William See also:Rufus, to the disgust of his supporters, permitted Odo to leave the See also:kingdom after the collapse of this See also:design (ro88), and thenceforward Odo was the right-See also:hand man of Robert in See also:Normandy . 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 See also:Palermo (See also:February 1097) . Little See also:good is recorded of Odo . His vast See also:wealth was gained by See also:extortion and See also:robbery .

His ambitions were boundless and his morals lax . But he was a See also:

patron of learning and, like most prelates of his See also:age, a See also:great architect . He rebuilt the See also:cathedral of his see, and may perhaps have commissioned the unknown artist of the celebrated Bayeux See also:tapestry . See the authorities cited for WILLIAM I. and WILLIAM II., the See also:biographical See also:sketch in Gallia Christiana, xi . 353-360; H . See also:Wharton Anglia Sacra, i . 334-339 (1691); and F . R . Fowke, The Bayeux Tapestry (See also:London, 1898) . (H . W . C .

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