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Oddo, Duke of Mercia ( - 1056?)

Legendary Duke of Mercia and co-founder of the Tewksbury Abbey in 715 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewkesbury_Abbey Relevant locations: Founder or Creator of Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury
Title (royalty or holy order) Mercia, England
Relationships: Doddo (-fl. 715) was a brother of Oddo
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Polychronicon & parambulationes Forestarum factæ tempore Regis Henrici filii Johannis Regis in Com. Huntingdun Lancast. Gloucest. Leicestr. & Notingh. Dorse. Somers. Oxon. Surrei, Sussex, Berks. Buckingh. Wilts. Salop. Wygorn. Hereford. & Essex. Northampt. Cumbr. Bucks. Eborac. Memorandum, The Chronicle hath the Pedigree of the King's from Brute, but the History only from the Arrival of the Saxons circa, An. 444. There are other Perambulations of the Forrests added 29 Edw. I. Com. Staff. Hunt. Wygorn. and Roteland. Then follow the Charters of Edw. the Confessor, and Will. the Norman to Westminster. The Foundation of the Abbey at Tewksbury, by Oddo and Doddo of Mercia, with the Series of the Abbots to the Year 1400. Lastly, Europæ descriptio ex Orosio ab Alfrido rege in Anglicam sermonem traducto. In the Saxon Language and Character.