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Birth:           983 Blois, France
Death:          15 Nov 1037 Lorraine, France

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Count of Chartres, Tours and Beauvais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_II,_Count_of_Blois
Odo II (French: Eudes le Champenois) (983 – 15 November 1037) was the Count of 
Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and Count of Troyes (as 
Odo IV) and Meaux (as Odo I) from 1022. He twice tried to make himself a king: first in 
Italy after 1024 and then in Burgundy after 1032.

Odo II was the son of Odo I of Blois and Bertha of Burgundy.[1] He was the first to 
unite Blois and Champagne under one authority although his career was spent in 
endless feudal warfare with his neighbors and suzerains, many of whose territories he 
tried to annex.[2]

About 1003/4 he married Maud of Normandy, a daughter of Richard I of Normandy.[3] 
After her death in 1005,[1] and as she had no children, Richard II of Normandy 
demanded a return of her dowry: half the county of Dreux.[4] Odo refused and the two 
warred over the matter.[4] Finally, King Robert II, who had married Odo's mother, 
imposed his arbitration on the contestants in 1007, leaving Odo in possession of the 
castle Dreux while Richard II kept the remainder of the lands.[4] Odo quickly married a 
second wife, Ermengarde, daughter of Guilaume IV of Auvergne (fr).[4]

Defeated by Fulk 'Nerra,' Count of Anjou and Herbert I of Maine at the Battle of 
Pontlevoy in July 1016, he quickly tried to overrun the Touraine.[2] After the death of 
his cousin Stephen I in 1019/20, without heirs he seized Troyes, Meaux and all of 
Champagne for himself without royal approval.[5] From there he attacked Ebles, the 
archbishop of Reims, and Theodoric I, the duke of Lorraine. Due to an alliance 
between the king and the Emperor Henry II he was forced to relinquish the county of 
Rheims to the archbishop.

He was offered the crown of Italy by the Lombard barons, but the offer was quickly 
retracted in order not to upset relations with the king of France. In 1032, he invaded 
the Kingdom of Burgundy on the death of Rudolph III.[6] He retreated in the face of a 
coalition of the Emperor Conrad II and the new king of France, Henry I.[7] He died in 
combat near Bar-le-Duc during another attack on Lorraine.[2]

Issue[edit]

By his second wife, Ermengarde of Auvergne, Odo had three children:
1.Theobald III, who inherited the county of Blois and most of his other possessions.[1]
2.Stephen II, who inherited the counties of Meaux and Troyes in Champagne.[1]
3.Bertha, who married first Alan III, Duke of Brittany, and second Hugh IV, Count of 
Maine[1][8]

Parents
OF BLOIS Odo (Eudes) I (ABT  945 - 12 Mar  995)
OF BURGUNDY [OF ARLES] Bertha ( 962 - ABT 1016)

Siblings
DE BLOIS Heloise (ABT  980 - )
OF BLOIS Odo (Eudes) II ( 983 - 15 Nov 1037)
DE BLOIS Agnes (ABT  990 - )

Marriage To OF AUVERGNE Ermengarde ()
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF AUVERGNE Guillaume William IV (ABT  955 - ABT 1016)
____ Humberge (ABT  958 - )

Children by OF AUVERGNE Ermengarde 
OF BLOIS Bertha (ABT 1005 - 13 Apr 1085)
____ Thibaud (Theobald) III (1012 - 30 Sep 1089)
____ Stephen II (ABT 1015 - 1047)

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