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For his skill and bravery in resisting the attacks of the Normans, Odo was chosen king by the western Franks when the emperor Charles the Fat was deposed in 887, and was crowned at Compiègne in February 888.

He continued to battle against the Normans, whom he defeated at Montfaucon and elsewhere, but was soon involved in a struggle with some powerful nobles, who supported the claim of Charles, afterwards King Charles III, to the Frankish kingdom.

To gain prestige and support Odo owned himself a vassal of the German king, Arnulf of CarinthiaArnulf of Carinthia ( German Arnulf von Karnten Slovenian Arnulf KoroSki ( 850 December 8 899) was one of the last ruling members of the Carolingian house in the Eastern part of the Frankish Kingdom, which had been split in the Treaty of Verdun in 843., but in 894Births Deaths Events Northumbrians and East Angles swear allegiance to Alfred the Great. And promptly break their truce by attacking the south-west of England. Graeco-Hungarian alliance forces Bulgar invaders to agree peace settlement. The Greeks then bro Arnulf declared for Charles. Eventually, after a struggle which lasted for three years, Odo was compelled to come to terms with his rival, and to surrender to him a district north of the Seine. He died at La Fère on January 1, 898.

See E LavisseErnest Lavisse ( December 17, 1842 August 18, 1922) was a French historian. He was born at Nouvion-en-Thierache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maitre de conference (1876) at th, Histoire de France, tome ii. (Paris, 1903); and E Favre, Eudes, comte de Paris et roi de France (Paris, 1893).

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica

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