Odo

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See also: Eudes

Odo is a name typically associated with historical figures from the Middle Ages and before. Odo is etymologically related to the namesImage:Kruk2.bmp Otho and Otto, and to the French name Odon, and to the Italian names Ottone and Udo; all come from a Germanic word meaning "possessor of wealth". Odo has also been used as a name for fictional characters.

Contents 1 Historical 1.1 Royal 1.2 Clerical 2 Modern 3 Fictional 4 Other uses

[edit] Historical

[edit] Royal

• Odo the Great (a.k.a. Eudes, Eudo, or Otto) (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine
• Odo I, Count of Orléans (d. 834)
• Odo I, Count of Troyes (d. 871)
• Odo II, Count of Troyes (held the title in 876)
• Odo of France, king of the Franks (860 - 898)
• Odo of Toulouse, count of Toulouse (d. 918 or 919)
• Odo, Count of Paris (c. 860 - 898), also called Eudes, a king of the Franks
• Odo, Duke of Burgundy (944 – 965)
• Odo of Fézensac, Count of Fézensac from 960
• Odo I, Count of Blois (950-996)
• Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (d. 993)
• Odo II, Count of Blois (Eudes le Champenois) (983 - 1037)
• Odo II, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (d. 1046)
• Odo of Gascony (1010 - 1093)
• Odo IV, Count of Troyes (d. 1115)

See also:

• Odo I
• Odo II

[edit] Clerical

• Odo of Glanfeuil, abbot and hagiographer (9th century)
• Saint Odo of Cluny (c. 878 - 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
• Odo of Arezzo (fl. late 10th century) a composer and theorist
• Oda the Severe, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, 942-959, known as Oda the Severe
• Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl
• Odo of Cambrai, Benedictine monk and bishop (1050 - 1113)
• Odo de St Amand, grandmaster of the Knights Templar, 12th century
• Odo of Deuil, historian and crusader, 12th century
• Odo of Canterbury, Saint and abbot of Battle (d. 1200)
• Blessed Odo of Novara, Carthusian monk (d. 1200)
• Odo of Châteauroux, French cardinal (d. 1273)
• Odo of Cheriton, priest and fabulist, 13th century
• Odo Colonna (1368 – 1431), Pope Martin V, also known as Oddone Colonna
• Odo O'Driscoll, Bishop of Ross, Ireland, bishop 1482-c. 1492, also known as Hugh O'Driscoll

[edit] Modern

• Odo Casel also known as Johannes Casel (1886–1948), German Catholic theologist
• Odo Hirsch (b. 1962), Australian author
• Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, (1829 – 1884), British diplomat
• Nickname of Dean Gaudet[1] (1970 – current), contributor to many open source software projects

[edit] Fictional

• Odo Proudfoot, a cousin of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
• Odo (Star Trek), a fictional shapeshifting being in the sci-fi series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Odo, the founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1975 science-fiction novel, The Dispossessed
• Odo, a wizard about whom Rubeus Hagrid and Horace Slughorn sing a song in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[edit] Other uses

• odo, A line of prototype devices from Sony which rely on kinetic energy by Sony Design Center in California under the creative direction of Michelle Koza.
• Odo, a genios of spiders (Zoridae)
• Odo Shakiso, a district in Ethiopia