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Ranking the Carolingians with Battle Royale: French Monarchs

The French History Podcast

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Is Odo in Your Top Five?

Odo is the antithesis of Charles a simple who's of course kicking around in that period stirring up trouble whereas Charles is very proud and has a big opinion of himself Odo is very humble. So, I think he really sets set that ball rolling for them. He actually didn't have any children Odo so he didn't end up going to his brother Robert. That sort of sense of like, well I'm just a sort of caretaker king I'm not here to establish a grand dynasty I'm just here to make sure everything goes smoothly. I think that really does Odo a lot of credit. And yeah so he's my number six now I mentioned before that my number

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