Odo of Sully, (French: Eudes de Sully, Odon de Sully, Odo de Sully; Latin: Odo de Solleiro, Odo de Soliaco)[1][2] (died 1208) was Bishop of Paris, from 1197 to 1208. He is considered to be the first to have put emphasis on the Elevation liturgy during the Catholic Mass. He worked to address many social matters including regulating celebrations in his cathedral. He also tried to ban chess. He founded the abbey that became Port-Royal.
Life
On the political stage, he came into conflict with French king, Philip Augustus, over Philip's intended repudiation of his wife.[3]
As a churchman, he continued the building work on Notre Dame de Paris. He is considered the first to have emphasized the elevation of the host during the Catholic Mass.[4] In 1175, he forbade communion for children.[5] Odo's decree on custody of reserved hosts, requiring a "clean pyx", was influential in England.
In surviving decrees, he, as bishop, is seen addressing a number of social matters. He attempted to regulate celebrations in his cathedral,[6] Christmas[7] and the Feast of Fools.[8] He also tried to ban chess.[9]
He is also known for his promotion of polyphony in church, and the music of Pérotin.[10]
He was a founder of the abbey that became Port-Royal.[11]
Family
Eudes de Sully and his brother, Henry, archbishop of Bourges, were sons of Eudes of Sully. The elder Eudes was in turn son of William of Blois, lord of Sully, the elder brother of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, Stephen of England and Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester and grandson of William the Conqueror.[12]
His predecessor, Maurice de Sully, was not a close family connection.
Sources
Eudes' synodal decrees appear in volume 22 of Giovanni Domenico Mansi's Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , 53 vols., Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlangsanstalt, 1961. More recently Odette Pontal produced a critical edition of these statutes in Les statuts synodaux Français du XIIIe siècle. Tome 1: Les Statuts de Paris et le synodal de l'ouest. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1971.
- Cheney, C. R., English Synodalia, London, Oxford University Press, 1968, discussing the impact of these statutes in England.
Notes
- ^ Odo de Soliaco, VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
- ^ EUDES de Sully: The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the election of "Henricus...frater Odo cantor Bituricensis in episcopum Parisiensem, post magistrum Mauritium eligitur" in 1196, specifying that they were both brothers of "Egidii de Solleiro"
- ^ Goyau, Pierre-Louis-Théophile-Georges (1911). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Thurston, Herbert (1909). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ History Of The Christian Church*
- ^ PDF, p. 174, against mummers, maskers and excessive bell-ringing.
- ^ Ensemble Anonymus — Tempus Festorum Archived 2007-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thurston, Herbert (1909). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 102.
- ^ [1], in French, 1198.
- ^ Cawley, Charles, Central France, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,