Odo de St Amand

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Odo de St Amand (or Eudes or Odon) was Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

Odo came from a family from the Limousin. He was marshal of Jerusalem and later viscount. In 1157, during the siege of the Christian town of Banias near the source of the Jordan, he was taken prisoner along with then-master Bertrand de Blanchefort, during the disastrous fight that followed.

The construction of the Templar fortress at Jacob's Ford on the upper Jordan led to a fresh Saracen invasion and the disastrous Battle of Marj Uyun (1179), from which the young king Baldwin IV and the True Cross escaped with difficulty, while Odo de St Amand, the Grand Master, was carried away captive and never returned.

Odo de St Amand was succeeded as Grand Master by Arnaud de Toroge.

Preceded by:
Philippe de Milly		 Grand Master of the Knights Templar
1171–1179		 Succeeded by:
Arnaud de Toroge
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