[citation needed] At his birth in 1123, Hugh, Count of Campagne did not recognize his legitimacy and persecuted him and his mother.
[1] Around 1137, his marriage to Symbille de La Ferte brought the title of Viscount of Dijon to the branch of Champlitte-Potagier.
In 1143 his claims seem to have been realized: Louis VII of France was at war with Theobald II, Count of Campania.
Odo I became then cousin by marriage of the German emperor, who granted him the usufruct of three fiefs from the estate of Renaud III: Quingey, Isle-sur-le-Doubs and Loye.
[1] In 1171 he accompanied the Hugh III Duke of Burgundy and the Count of Sancers Etienne/Stephen I Count of Sancers on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land [2].. 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 [1]: