♂Odo of Burgundy

Odo of Burgundy was a medieval nobleman of Burgundy. He was the twenty-seventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Ela of Burgundy.

He is said to have been a Duke of Burgundy. His daughter Ela married William Talvas, Count of Alençon and Ponthieu, and their daughter Ela Talvas married William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. No dates, wife or other particulars of Odo’s own life are given for this line.

Notes

Sources

The only source is the first edition of the Complete Peerage (vol. 7, 1896, under Surrey, p. 326), which describes Ela Talvas as “da. of William called Talvas, Count of Alencon and Ponthieu, by Ela, da. of Odo, Duke of Burgundy”. This is a compiled peerage account, not a record of the time, so the title is stated with a hedge. It gives no date of birth or death and does not name his wife.

Which duke

The Complete Peerage does not tie this Odo to a numbered Duke of Burgundy, and no such identification is made here.

The descent

The line from Ela Talvas to Nancy Jane Blanchard runs through her daughter Isabel de Warenne and her descendants to John Washburn, who died in 1547. That the John Washburn of the pedigrees was this man is the identification of the Washbournes’ historian, James Davenport, not a record’s, so the descent below Ela Talvas is probable; see the page for Ela of Burgundy.