Odo of Bayeux (died 1097) was Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy, and was also made Earl of Kent in England following the Norman Conquest. He was the maternal...

of 58 scenes, many with Latin tituli, embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns. It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux...

Bayeux (French pronunciation: [bajø]) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry...

one of his favourite noblemen. From her marriage to Herluin she had two sons: Odo, who later became Bishop of Bayeux, and Robert, who became Count of Mortain...

(1001–1066) was the stepfather of William the Conqueror and the father of Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, both of whom became prominent during...

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958), Archbishop of Canterbury Odo of Bayeux (died 1097), brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent Odo of Cambrai (1050–1113)...

accessed to Wulfstan. In 1077 Odo of Bayeux, the brother of William the Conqueror brought an action against Walter as the Abbot of Evesham Abbey, claiming that...

half-brother of William the Conqueror. The rebels, led by William the Conqueror's half-brothers Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, with Odo the stronger...

Bishop of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror and Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury and others. Odo de Bayeux was previously Earl of Kent and...

Montgomery the earl of Shrewsbury and Hugh d'Avranches the earl of Chester . Likewise, the king's half-brother Odo of Bayeux was made earl of Kent to guard...

III, until he comes of age. Spring – A rebellion led by William the Conqueror's half-brothers Odo of Bayeux and Robert (2nd Earl of Cornwall), begins against...

with whom she had two sons – Odo of Bayeux and Count Robert of Mortain – and a daughter whose name is unknown. One of Herleva's brothers, Walter, became...

scholars to have been the new king's chief advisor. When the king's uncle, Odo of Bayeux, raised a rebellion against the king in 1088, St-Calais was implicated...

bishop Odo of Bayeux, he exclaimed "What! He is a clergyman." Lanfranc retorted that "You will not seize the bishop of Bayeux, but confine the earl of Kent...

1080 14 May – Walcher, Bishop of Durham, is killed by rebel Northumbrians; King William I sends his half-brother Odo of Bayeux to pacify Northumbria. Autumn...

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knights named on the Bayeux tapestry. He is believed to have been a vassal of Odo of Bayeux. He is recorded as holding land from Odo in Kent in the Domesday...

Conqueror named his half-brother, Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036–1097), who was also Bishop of Bayeux, the new Earl of Kent. However, Odo was twice removed from this...

Following the Norman Conquest, the manor of Peckham was granted to Odo of Bayeux and held by the Bishop of Lisieux. It was described as being a hamlet...

punitive expedition led by his half-brother Odo of Bayeux to pacify Northumbria. Autumn – Robert Curthose, a son of William I, is sent to invade Scotland....

rebellion led by Thomas' old mentor Odo of Bayeux. Thomas also attended the trial for rebellion of the Bishop of Durham, William de St-Calais, Thomas'...

England. He also taught Ralph of Caen, one of the later chroniclers of the First Crusade. He was also close to Odo of Bayeux, who he accompanied on the Crusade...

Turold of Rochester was a Norman knight known from the Domesday Book and possibly also the Bayeux tapestry. He was a vassal of Bishop Odo of Bayeux and is...

Maidstone was the scene of a successful trial of Odo of Bayeux. The trial, ordered by William I at the behest of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury challenged...

half-brother's new Kingdom of England. Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva of Falaise and brother of Odo of Bayeux. Robert was born c. 1031...

Sheriff of Kent as agent for (or chief tenant of) Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the Earl of Kent (1076) was a determination by William the Conqueror of an English...

and Odo of Bayeux in 1071 and was himself sued in (1076), when acting as the king's agent and with the king's license, look lands for Odo of Bayeux, the...

Hastings. The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned by William the Conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo, possibly at the same time as Bayeux Cathedral's...

meantime encountered a much superior force under the warrior bishops Odo of Bayeux and Geoffrey de Montbray (the latter ordered that all rebels should...