Odo II of Champlitte, (died May 1204 at the Siege of Constantinople) was the first son of Odo I of Champlitte and a grandson of Hugh, Count of Champagne, although Hugh disowned Odo I.
At an assembly at Citeaux, Odo, and his brother William, joined the crusade.[1] Upon the crusade's arrival at Corfu, a disagreement as to where the crusade should be directed divided the army into two camps.[2] One that wanted follow Hugh of Saint-Pol and Prince Alexius to Constantinople, the other headed by Odo, Jacques of Avenes and Peter of Amiens, to continue on to Jerusalem.[3] After Odo arrived at Corfu he sent messengers to Brindisi to hire a fleet to take the crusade to Jerusalem.[4] Subsequent meetings between Odo, Hugh and Alexious, directed the crusade towards Constantinople.[5]
Odo participated in the siege of Constantinople, fell ill, and died shortly after in May 1204.[6] He was buried in the Hagia Sophia.[6]
He left behind a wife, Emeline of Broyes,[7] who was much younger than he, and a daughter, Oda or Odette or Euda, who married Hugh I of Ghent. Emiline was daughter of Elizabeth of Druex and Hugh III of Broyes.[8]
Notes
edit- ^ Phillips 2004, p. 89-90.
- ^ Phillips 2004, p. 138.
- ^ Phillips 2004, p. 138-139.
- ^ Phillips 2004, p. 139.
- ^ Phillips 2004, p. 140.
- ^ a b Phillips 2004, p. 273.
- ^ Schenk 2012, p. 240.
- ^ Evergates 1999, p. 102.
References
edit- Evergates, Theodore (1999). Aristocratic women in medieval France. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Phillips, Jonathan (2004). The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. Penguin Group.
- Schenk, Jochen (2012). Templar Families, Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, c.1120-1307. Cambridge University Press.
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