In 1179, Bertram de Verdun, the lord of the manor of Croxden, endowed a site for a new abbey, and 12 monks arrived from the Savigniac Cistercian mother house of Aunay-sur-Odon in Normandy to build the new abbey over the next 50 years.
He studied at the Conservatoire, and made his first formal appearance on the stage in 1845, in Molière's Tartuffe at the Odon.
Frank Douglas Garrett - born July 19, 1944 - University Dean, Speaker, Author - All Marine Basketball 1964-66, JUCO All American Basketball, 1967–69; Honored by town of Odon at Old Settler's of 2006.
Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, June 1944
The Austrian writer Ödön von Horváth Ödön von Horváth lodged in the Pension Zipser a number of times between 1920 and 1931, which he also references in his book Tales from the Vienna Woods.
There are no shops, nor any commercial outlets in the hamlet, the nearest shops, food, bars or hotels are located either in Villers-Bocage or Aunay-sur-Odon.
Odón de Buen y del Cos (1863 in Zuera, Zaragoza Province, Aragon, Spain – 1945 in Mexico City) was a Spanish naturalist, politician and publicist.
Zapatadon was first described and named by Víctor-Hugo Reynoso and James M. Clark in 1998, and the name of the genus is a homage to the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, added to the Greek sufix -odon, "tooth", common in other sphenodontian taxa; the name of the type species, ejidoensis is in gratitude to the people of the ejido (communal land area) of El Huizachal, that allow the investigation of the fossils.