Odo I of Champlitte

Odo/Eudes I de Champlitte the so-called Champenois, (1123 - d. 1187) of the House of Blois and its cadet branch, the house of Champlitte. was Lord of Champlitte, Viscount of Dijon, and also a claimant to the title of Count of Champagne. He was the son of Hugh, Count of Champagne, Count of Champagne and Isabella of Burgundy, daughter of Stephen I, Count of Burgundy.

Biography At his birth in 1123, Hugh, Count of Campagne did not recognize his legitimacy and persecuted him and his mother. In 1125 Hugh decides to become a Knight Templar. He then rejected Odo I and bequeathed the county of Campagne to his nephew Thibaut/Theobald II, Count of Champagne.

Odo I was then taken over by his maternal family and became lord of Champlitte, which he probably inherited from his mother Isabella, or from the generosity of his uncle Renaud III, Count of Burgundy. It is also in the possession of Por-sur-Chaon and Champvans.

Family and issue Around 1137 he married Sibylle de La Ferte, daughter of Hugh of Beaumont and Mathilde de La Ferte (and niece of Josper II de La Ferte, Viscount of Dijon, and possibly granddaughter of Josper I Seneschal of Hugh I Count of Campanias), by whom he has six known children : Odo/Eudes II (d. 1204), lord of Champlitte. William (1160s-1209), lord of Champlitte, 1st prince of Achaia. Pons born d. 1151. Louis Rev. d. 1202. Hugh av. d. 1196. Beatrice d. c. 1218, married firstly in 1170 to Simon IV de Clermont, and secondly in 1196 to Geofroi de Baudemon, lord of Deuilly.