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'''Odo''' is a name typically associated with historical figures from the middle ages and before. Odo is etymologically related to the names 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. '''Odo''' is a name typically associated with historical figures from the ] and before. Odo is etymologically related to the names Otho and ], and to the French name Odon and modern version ], and to the Italian names ] and ]; all come from the Germanic word ''ot'' meaning "possessor of wealth".


==Historical== ==Historical==
=== Royal === === Nobility ===
* ] (a.k.a. ''Eudes'', ''Eudo'', or ''Otto'') (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine * ] (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine
* ] (d. 834) * ] (died 834)
* ] (d. 871) * ] (died 871)
* ] (held the title in 876) * ] (held the title in 876)
* ], king of the Franks (860 - 898) * ] (860–898), King of the Franks
* ], count of Toulouse (d. 918 or 919) * ] (died 918 or 919), Count of Toulouse
* ] (c. 860 - 898), also called ''Eudes'', a king of the Franks * ] (died 985), Count of Fézensac
* ] (944 – 965) * ] (950–996)
* ], Count of Fézensac from 960 * ] (died 993)
* ] (950-996) * ] (983–1037)
* ] (d. 993) * ] (died 1046)
* ] (''Eudes le Champenois'') (983 - 1037) * ] (died after 1061)
* ] (d. 1046) * ] (c. 999–1079), co-Duke of Brittany
* ] (1010 - 1093) * ] (1060–1102)
* ] (d. 1115) * ] (c. 1040–1115)
* ] (1118–1162), Duke of Brittany
* ]
* ] (died after 1180)
* ] (died in 1204)


=== Clerical === === Clerics ===
* ], abbot and hagiographer (9th century) * ] ({{fl.|850s–860s}}, abbot and hagiographer
* Saint ] (c. 878 - 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church * ] (died 881), West Frankish abbot and bishop
* ] (''fl.'' late 10th century) a composer and theorist * ] (c. 878–942), Roman Catholic saint
* ] ({{fl.|late 10th century}}), composer and theorist
* ], Archbishop of Canterbury, England, 942-959, known as Oda the Severe
* ] (died 958), Archbishop of Canterbury
* ] (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl
* ] (died 1097), brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent
* ], Benedictine monk and bishop (1050 - 1113) * ] (1050–1113), Benedictine monk and bishop
* ], grandmaster of the Knights Templar, 12th century
* ], historian and cruzader, 12th century * ] (died 1122), saint and bishop of Urgell
* ], French cardinal (d. 1273) * ] (died 1144), bishop of Beauvais
* ], priest and fabulist, 13th century * ] (1110–1179), Grand Master of the Knights Templar
* ], 12th-century historian and crusader
⚫ * Odo Colonna (1368 – 1431), ], also known as Oddone Colonna
* ] (died 1200), saint and abbot of Battle
* ], Bishop of ], Ireland, bishop 1482-c. 1492, also known as Hugh O'Driscoll
* ] (c. 1105–1200), ] monk
* ] (c. 1190–1273), French cardinal
* ] (c. 1185–1246/47), Roman Catholic priest and fabulist
⚫ * ] (1368–1431), born Odo or Oddone Colonna
* Odo O'Driscoll, bishop of Ross, Ireland (1473-1494)


== Modern == ==Modern==
* ] (1886–1948), also known as Johannes Casel, German Catholic theologian and monk
* ], Australian author * ] (born 1962), Australian author
⚫ * ], British diplomat (1829 – 1884)
* ] (1928–2015), German philosopher
* ] (1850–1913), Swedo-Finnish zoologist and poet
⚫ * ] (1829–1884), British diplomat


==Fictional== ==Fictional characters==
* ], a fictional shapeshifting being in the sci-fi series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * ], a shapeshifter in the science fiction series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' portrayed by René Auberjonois
* Odo, the founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1975 science-fiction novel, '']'' * Odo Proudfoot, a cousin of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy novel '']''
* Odo, a wizard about whom Rubeus Hagrid and Horace Slughorn sing a song in J. K. Rowling's '']. * Odo Stevens, an Army officer, journalist, and author from ]'s '']'' novel sequence
* Odo, founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel '']'' and her short story "]"
* Odo, a character in the ] rough drafts. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, hesitated to take him out because his son, Christopher Tolkien, wanted the character kept. In the end, he was deleted.
* Odo or Ooth, a name allegedly corrupted into Hood in the claim that ] was Robin Hood


==Other uses== ==See also==
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* ''Odo'', a genus of spiders (])
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* Odo, a shorthand version of ]{{dubious}}
* ], a district in Ethiopia


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Latest revision as of 03:49, 19 October 2024

For other uses, see Odo (disambiguation).

Odo is a name typically associated with historical figures from the Middle Ages and before. Odo is etymologically related to the names Otho and Otto, and to the French name Odon and modern version Eudes, and to the Italian names Ottone and Udo; all come from the Germanic word ot meaning "possessor of wealth".

Historical

Nobility

Clerics

Modern

Fictional characters

See also

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