Odo and Robert’s rebellion

• Bishop Odo lead a rebellion

  1088
• Bishop Odo lead a rebellion

  Aiming to remove William Rufus from the English throne and replace him with his older brother Robert
• Most Normans and Saxons disliked Robert, and especially that disliked Odo, so the rebellion gained little support
• Odo's English lands were forfeited
• William Rufus kept order

  By promising to lower taxes and the forest laws (he would break these promises)