Born at Deuil to a modest family, he became a monk and was a confidant of Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis.
Eudes explains the failure of the crusade in terms of human action rather than as the will of God, in contrast to the reasoning of Otto of Freising.
"[2] However, Phillips has recently argued that Eudes' view of Byzantium was possibly rooted in ideological differences which minor skirmishes between the crusaders and Greeks had brought to the fore.
His prejudice should also be set against the experience of Conrad III of Germany, who wrote that Manuel treated him as a "brother."
Eudes' account ends with the remnant of the crusade arriving at Antioch, and so does not include a description of the Siege of Damascus.