Editing Odo of Bayeux (section)

==Trial, imprisonment and rebellion==
In 1076, at the [[trial of Penenden Heath]], Odo was tried in front of a large and senior assembly over the course of three days at [[Penenden Heath]] in [[Kent]] for defrauding the Crown and the [[Diocese of Canterbury]]. At the conclusion of the trial he was forced to return a number of properties and his assets were re-apportioned.{{sfn|Ireland|1829|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XqJJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA653 p. 653]}}

In 1082, Odo was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned for having planned a military expedition to [[Italy]]. His motives are not certain.{{sfn|Davis|1911}} Chroniclers writing a generation later said Odo desired to make himself [[pope]] during the [[Investiture Controversy]] while [[Pope Gregory VII]] was in severe difficulty in his conflict with [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], and the position of pope was in contention; but the contemporary evidence is ambiguous.{{sfn|Dean|2013|pages=9-13}} Whatever the reason, Odo spent the next five years in prison and his English estates were taken back by the king, as was his office as [[Earl of Kent]]. Odo was not deposed as Bishop of Bayeux.

On his deathbed in 1087, King William I was reluctantly persuaded by his half-brother, [[Robert, Count of Mortain]], to release Odo. After the king's death, Odo returned to England. William's eldest son, [[Robert Curthose]], had been made duke of Normandy, while Robert's brother [[William II of England|William Rufus]] had received the throne of England.<ref name=EHENodorevolt>{{cite book|title=The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy, Volume 2|year=1854|publisher=H.G. Bohn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcMsAAAAMAAJ&q=Odo+bishop+of+bayeux&pg=PA452|author=Ordericus Vitalis|others=Guizot, François, M.; Delisle, Léopold |access-date=16 July 2011}}</ref>{{rp|433–436}} The bishop supported Robert Curthose's claim to England. The [[Rebellion of 1088]] failed and William Rufus permitted Odo to leave the kingdom. Afterwards, Odo remained in the service of Robert in Normandy.<ref name=EHENodorevolt/>{{rp|450–452}}

Odo joined the [[First Crusade]] as part of his nephew Robert's army that was bound for [[Jerusalem]], but died on the way whilst visiting [[Palermo]] in January or February 1097.{{sfn|Davis|1911}} He was buried in [[Palermo Cathedral]].{{sfn|Bates|2004}}