Eudes 'Odo' de Conteville, Bishop of Bayeaux

• Preferred Name: Eudes 'Odo' de Conteville, Bishop of Bayeaux^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Alternate Name: Eudes de Conteville
  
• Gender: M
  
• Christening: 1050 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.2764 LONG: E0.7031
  
• Religion: Bishop of Bayeux ... Bischof von Bayeux1050
  
• Founded: with note: Description: He founded the Abbaye de Troarn in 1059.
  
• Politics: with note: Description: Regent in King William's absence
  
• Politics: 1087 with note: Description: On his deathbed King William I was reluctantly persuaded by his half-brother, Robert, Count of Mortain, to release Odo from prison.
  
• Death: FEB 1097 in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy at LATI: N7.8 LONG: E3.58
  
• MilitaryService: fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings1066
  
• Residence: granted over 500 manors - by half-brother William I King of England in England
  
• Religious Title: ABT 1050 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.2764 LONG: E0.7031 with note: Description: Bishop of Bayeux; Évêque de Bayeux. He was appointed by his half-brother Duke William de Normandie
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: created Earl of Kent1067
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Kent; Comte de Kent; when he was appointed head of Dover and its castleBET 1067 AND 1082 in Kent, England
  
• Birth: 1030 in Conteville, Somme, Picardie, France at LATI: N0.1798 LONG: E0.0753
  
• FSID: 9CM5-5JM
  
• Trial+of+Penenden+Heath+-++tried+for+defrauding+the+Crown+and+the+Diocese+of+Canterbury.+: 1076 in Penenden Heath, Kent, England at LATI: N1.2261 LONG: E0.7505 with note: Description: over 3 days in front of a large and senior assembly at Penenden Heath. At the conclusion of the trial he was forced to return a number of properties and his assets were re-apportioned.
  
• MilitaryService: disgraced and imprisoned for having planned a military expedition to Italy1082
  
• Burial: 1097 in Santa Maria, Gangi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy at LATI: N7.7985 LONG: E4.1999
  
• Notes:

  Description: He obtained extensive grounds throughout England, from the Domesday Book in 1086, he was reportedly worth more than £ 3,240 per year. He was one of the richest lords (tenants-in-chief , "licensors lords") of the kingdom, the only person approaching the wealth of his brothers Robert and Roger de Montgomerie . He had 439 lordships (manors) in 22 counties.
  

• Notes:

  Odo of Bayeux
  Odo of Bayeux
  11th-century Bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror
  
  Odo of Bayeux (died 1097), Earl of Kent and Bishop of Bayeux, was the uterine half-brother of William the Conquer

1. Jean de Conteville, b. ABT 1062 in Bayeux, Calvados, France     d. 1131

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