General Notes

!Usually left in charge of England when his half-brother William I was out of the country along with Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury.  There was no particular love between Odo and Lanfranc, therefore the kingdom was fairly safe in their joint hands.  Odo betrayed William in 1082. [William I and the Norman Conquest]

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!Under pretense of aspiring by arms to the papacy, Bishop Odo collected money and men, but the treasure was at once seized by the royal officers and the Bishop arrested in the midst of the court.  Even at the King's bidding no officer would venture to seize on a prelate of the Church; and it was with his own hands that William was forced to effect his brother's arrest. [WBH - England]

!Bishop of Bayeaux, 1049-90.  Made earl of Kent in 1067. [The Norman Achievement]

!Odo, Bishop de Bayeux, created Earl of Kent in 1067; obit. 1096/8. [The Bruces and the Cumyns, p. 391]

Bishop of Bayeux, Duke of Kent; father of John who assumed the surname du Hommet. Son of Herluin de Contevile and Arlette. William of Malmesbury places the date of Odo's birth in 1030, which would make him 19 when he was consecrated in 1049 (Hugh, bishop of Bayeux, died in October of this year, while attending the council at Rheims). Orderic Vital informs us that Duke William procured the bishopric for his half-brother while he was very young (in adolescentia) and that he functioned during 50 years in this dignity, which agrees fairly well with the date of his death in 1097 at Palmero. [Falaise Roll, Table IV, p. 15]

In 1086 Hugh de Braiboue held Wateringbury (Otrinberge), Kent of Odo bishop of Bayeux. John de Port of Basing was also an under-tenant of the bishp of Bayeux both in Normandy and in England. [Anglo-Norman Families, pp. 19-20]

A charter of William duke of Normandy, which may be dated 1060-66, confirmed to Odo bishop of Bayeux land in Bernieres which the bishop had bought of William de Curcella. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 33]

Father of John de Bayeux. Son of Herluin and Herlette. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

William the Conqueror arrested his own treacherous half-brother Odo in 1082 at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. [Carisbrooke Castle, p. 2]

Odo established his headquarters at Dover specifically to guard the Kentish ports and keep open communications with Normandy. But while the bishop and many of his knights were beyond London suppressing unrest, a serious rebellion broke out in Kent. The rebels invited Count Eustace of Boulogne to be their leader. The garrison beat off the attack, the rebellion collapsed and Eustace sailed back to his country. [Dover Castle, p. 21]

Iudail, although this spelling is not a familiar one, it may be assumed to be one of the many variations of Eudes, which in turn translates to Odo. There were two Odos, the Bishop of Bayeux, half brother of Duke William and Odo, Count of Champagne. Which one is herein referred is questionable, but is most likely, Odo the Bishop of Bayeux who received many manors and lordships scattered throughout England after the Conquest, the name being modified by a local spelling. Eudo/Odo the Count of Champagne (who was not recorded at the Battle of Hastings) came into prominence about the time of the Domesday survey when he was granted Holderness by Duke William of Normandy. At Domesday Odo is recorded to have held the following manors:
Alston
Ashleigh
Baccamoor
Bagton
Blachford Bradford (Pyworthy)
Brixham Brixton (Shaugh Prior)
Brixton (Yealompton) Broadley Broadwoodwidger Butterford Charleton
Chittlebum Chivelstone
Clawton Coldstone
Coleridge (Buckland) Coleton Collaton (Marlborough) Compton Gifford Conworthy
Downicary Down Thomas Eggbuckland Elfordleigh
Fernhill (Shaugh) Ford (Chivelstone)
Galmpton (South Huish) Halwell Henford Holland Hooe
Lambside
Langdon
Loddiswell
Loventor Lupton
Malston
Manadon
Mary Tavy
Meavy
Membland
Mutley
North Huish Okenbury Pethill
Pool Poulston
Pyworthy
Raddon (in Marystowe)
Ringmore (Bigbury)
Shaugh Prior
Sherford (Brixton)
Shiphay Collaton
Soar
Sorley
South Allington
South Hewish
Stadbury
Staddiscombe
Staddon
Stancombe
Sydenham
Sydenham Damerel
Tetcott
Thrushelton
Thurleston
Tillislow
Totnes
Weston Peverel
West Portlemouth
Whitleigh
Wollaton
Woodford
Woolston
Worthele
Burrington (Weston Peverel) Combe Fishacre Leigh (Modbury)
Churston Ferrers Combe (Pool) Leigh (Harberton
North Bovey
Norton (Broadwoodwidger)
[Devonshire Domesday Book
(1086)<http://www.infokey.com/Devonshire/Devonshire.htm]

Rising was a mere 'berewick' or outlying member of the great manor of Snettisham in 1086. It was held by Stigand, the notorious Archbishop of Canterbury from 1052 until his deposiotn by the Normans in 1070, and thereafter had been granted by the Conqueror to his half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent in England. The early church, therefore, now in the inner bailey of the castle, is presumably to be attributed to either of these two in the sense that it was built in the time of one or other of them.
   Bishop Odo, though himself in disgrace in the later years of the Conqueror's reign, held Snettisham, with Rising, off and on until his final fall in 1088, soon after the succession of William Rufus which he had opposed. Some time after that the manor of Snettisham and Rising, with the hundreds of Freebridge and Smithdon and a half-share of the customes and tolls of Lynn, were given by Rufus to the newly arrived William de Albini. [Castle Rising, p. 8-9]

In the time of Odo, bishop of Bayeux, Herbert Fitz Ivo took one hide, inter boscum et planum, in the manor of Abbots Langley. In 1086 it was said that this hide 'belongs and belonged' to the church of St. Albans, and was then held by the count of Mortain. [The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Hertfordshire, p. 324]

At the time of the Doomsday survey, the manor of Allington formed a part of the extensive possessions of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. After his downfall it was granted to William de Warenne. [from Hasted's History of Kent, Vol. IV, p. 448 as quoted on <homepage.ntlworld.com/wyatt/allington.htm, 8/7/03]