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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==
=== Nobility ===
* ] (a.k.a. ''Eudes'', ''Eudo'', or ''Otto'') (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine
* ] (c. 860 - 898), also called ''Eudes'', a king of the Franks * ] (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine
* ] (died 834)
⚫ * Saint ] (c. 878 - 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
* ] (''fl.'' late 10th century) a composer and theorist * ] (died 871)
* ] (held the title in 876)
* ], Archbishop of Canterbury, England, 942-959, known as Oda the Severe
* ] (944 – 965) was Duke of Burgundy * ] (860–898), King of the Franks
* ] (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl * ] (died 918 or 919), Count of Toulouse
* ] (died 985), Count of Fézensac
⚫ * Odo Colonna (1368 – 1431), ], also known as Oddone Colonna
* ] (950–996)
* ], Bishop of ], Ireland, bishop 1482-c. 1492, also known as Hugh O'Driscoll
* ] (died 993)
* ] (983–1037)
* ] (died 1046)
* ] (died after 1061)
* ] (c. 999–1079), co-Duke of Brittany
* ] (1060–1102)
* ] (c. 1040–1115)
* ] (1118–1162), Duke of Brittany
* ]
* ] (died after 1180)
* ] (died in 1204)


==Fictional== === Clerics ===
* ] ({{fl.|850s–860s}}, abbot and hagiographer
* ], a fictional shapeshifting being in the sci-fi series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''
* ] (died 881), West Frankish abbot and bishop
⚫ * Odo, the founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1975 science-fiction novel, '']''
⚫ * ] (c. 878–942), Roman Catholic saint
* Odo, a wizard about whom Rubeus Hagrid and Horace Slughorn sing a song in J. K. Rowling's ''].
* ] ({{fl.|late 10th century}}), composer and theorist
* 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.
* ] (died 958), Archbishop of Canterbury
* ] (died 1097), brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent
* ] (1050–1113), Benedictine monk and bishop
* ] (died 1122), saint and bishop of Urgell
* ] (died 1144), bishop of Beauvais
* ] (1110–1179), Grand Master of the Knights Templar
* ], 12th-century historian and crusader
* ] (died 1200), saint and abbot of Battle
* ] (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)


==Other Usages== ==Modern==
* ] (1886–1948), also known as Johannes Casel, German Catholic theologian and monk
*''Odo'', a genus of spiders (])
* ] (born 1962), Australian author
*Odo, a shorthand version of ]{{dubious}}.
* ] (1928–2015), German philosopher
* ] (1850–1913), Swedo-Finnish zoologist and poet
* ] (1829–1884), British diplomat

==Fictional characters==
* ], a shapeshifter in the science fiction series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' portrayed by René Auberjonois
* Odo Proudfoot, a cousin of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy novel '']''
* 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 or Ooth, a name allegedly corrupted into Hood in the claim that ] was Robin Hood


==See also== ==See also==
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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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