Odo, Count of Nevers
Odo of Burgundy, in French Eudes de Bourgogne (1230 – 4 August 1266), was the Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre and son of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and Yolande of Dreux.Template:Sfn
In 1265, Odo became one of the last European barons to lead a crusading force to the Holy Land. Among his fifty knights was Erard of Valery. He defended Acre when Sultan Baybars I harassed it on 1 June 1266 in advance of his besieging Safad. He died at Acre on 7 August 1266 and was buried in the church of Saint Nicholas.Template:Sfn He left all his wealth to pay his followers and to endow hospitals and religious institutions. He was described by the Templar of Tyre as a "holy man", and his tomb attracted veneration. Within a year of his death, the poet Rutebeuf wrote a Complainte du comte Eudes de Nevers, a lament for a valiant knight and also for the city that lost its defender.Template:Sfn
Burgundy passed to Odo's brother, Robert.
Marriage and childrenEdit
Odo married Maud of DampierreTemplate:Sfn and they had:
- Yolande, Countess of Nevers (1247–1280), married (1) John Tristan, Count of Valois, and (2) Count Robert III of FlandersTemplate:Sfn
- Margaret, Countess of Tonnerre (1250–1308), married King Charles I of NaplesTemplate:Sfn
- Adelaide, Countess of Auxerre (1251–1290), married John I of Chalon, Lord of Rochefort
- Joan (1253–1271), died young