Source: Odo II, Count of Blois (983-1037), Wikipedia
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Odo II (French: Eudes) (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 andthen in Burgundy after 1032. Odo II was the son of Odo I of Blois and Bertha of Burgundy. About 1003/1004 he married Maud, a daughter of Richard I of Normandy. After her death in 1005, Odo quickly married a second wife, Ermengarde, daughter of William IVof Auvergne [fr]. By his second wife, Ermengarde of Auvergne, Odo had three children. Count of Blois (1004–1037) Died 15 November 1037 at Bar-le-Duc |