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Odo of Bayeux
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Odo of Bayeux ( c. 1036–97) was half...political as fraternal, since William intended Odo to strengthen ducal authority in Lower Normandy...Bayeux Tapestry , almost certainly produced for Odo, exaggerating his role. In 1067, he received...
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Odo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Odo count of Paris, French king: see Eudes .
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Valley of Decision, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...novel by Edith Wharton , published in 1902. Odo Valsecca, a young Italian nobleman, preserves...conservative aristocratic and clerical classes. Odo continues to sympathize, however, with...exiled because of his political beliefs, Odo rescues Fulvia from the convent in which...
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Bayeux Tapestry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...that the tapestry was produced for Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William's half-brother. It...made in England, probably in Kent, of which Odo was earl (1067–82). If the attribution to Odo is correct, then it must have been made between...
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Urban II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pope (1088-99), a Frenchman named Odo (or Eudes) of Lagery; successor of Victor...VII. The pope kept him there, finding in Odo one of his ablest assistants in the great...made him cardinal and bishop of Ostia. Odo worked especially as legate in Germany...
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Cluniacs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the liturgy, and freedom from lay (and, indeed, episcopal) control. Under the leadership of its early abbots, especially Odo (927–42), Odilo (994–1048), and Hugh (1049–1109), Cluny enjoyed considerable prosperity...
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Heidenmauer, The; Or, The Benedictines
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Berchtold Hintermayer, with Meta Frey, daughter of a leading citizen of Dürkheim. The title refers to a ruined fortress near the town, home of the hermit Baron Odo von Ritterstein, once the fiancé of Meta's mother.
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Bayeux tapestry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Norman Conquest . An unfounded tradition attributes its design to Matilda, wife of William I (the Conqueror) , but it was probably commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. It is now in a museum in Bayeux, n France.
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William II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...England. He was crowned on Sept. 26, 1087. He had almost at once to face a rebellion in favor of Robert, led by their uncle Odo, Earl of Kent and Bishop of Bayeux. The rebels were defeated largely with the help of English levies, to whom William promised...
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Eudes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eudes or Odo , c.860-898, count of Paris, French king (888-898). The son of Robert the Strong , he was an antecedent of the Capetian...
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