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Odo

noun

French pope from 1088 to 1099 whose sermons called for the First Crusade (1042-1099). Synonyms: Odo of Lagery, Otho, Otho of Lagery, Urban II.

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... VII., of whom, dying in exile and in seeming defeat at Salerno, Sir James Stephen has truly said that he has 'left the impress of his gigantic character upon all succeeding ages.' One need only be a moderately civilised man of common sense to recognise the debt of mankind to Odo de Chatillon, known in the pontificate as Urban II. Wherever in the world the evensong of the Angelus breathes peace on earth to men of good-will, it speaks of the great pontiff and of the Truce of God which he founded, that the races of Christian Europe, suspending their internecine strife, ...

— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... to 1080 were evil years for Northumberland, for at the first-named date the Conqueror devastated the North, and left neither village nor farm unscathed; and, as the desolated land was beginning to recover again, Odo of Bayeux and Robert of Normandy relentlessly laid it waste once more, partly in revenge for the murder of Bishop Walcher at Gateshead, and partly to punish Malcolm of Scotland for his invasion ...

— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry

Words linked to "Odo" : Vicar of Christ, Odo of Lagery, Otho of Lagery, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father, Otho, Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, pope