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.

[1] In 1265, Odo became one of the last European barons to lead a crusading force to the Holy Land.

He defended Acre when Sultan Baybars I harassed it on 1 June 1266 in advance of his besieging Safad.

[2] He left all his wealth to pay his followers and to endow hospitals and religious institutions.

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.

Coats of Arms of Eudes of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Auxerre