Events Tagged: "Odo"

Great Siege of Paris begins - Count Odo defends against 40,000 Vikings with 700 ships, becomes hero

Odo elected King of West Francia - hero of Paris siege, first non-Carolingian king, Robertian dynasty begins

Odo becomes second abbot of Cluny, begins major expansion of Cluniac reform movement throughout Europe

Leo VII becomes hundred-twenty-sixth pope - supports Odo of Cluny's monastic reforms

Saint Odo of Cluny dies; as second abbot he spread Cluniac reform to monasteries throughout France and Italy, establishing Cluny's network of dependent priories

Rebellion of 1088 - barons supporting Robert Curthose defeated, Bishop Odo of Bayeux exiled