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Which position did Odo of Châteauroux hold from May 1244 to 1254?
Odo of Châteauroux Odo or Eudes of Châteauroux ( –25 January 1273 ) , also known as and by many other names , was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher , papal legate and cardinal . He was “an experienced preacher and promoter of crusades” . Over 1000 of his sermons survive . Life . Odo was born at Châteauroux around the year 1190 . He preached murderous crusade in 1226 . He was chancellor of the University of Paris 1238-1244 , and perhaps also Cistercian abbot of Ourscamp , and then abbot of Grandselve . Odo of Ourscamp is a different figure , of the twelfth century . However , several sources deny , doubt or ignore that he was a monk . He was involved in the aftermath of the Paris disputation of 1240 , and subsequent condemnation of the Talmud . After the disputation a tribunal was appointed to pass judgment upon the Talmud , among its members being Eudes de Chateauroux , Chancellor of the University of Paris ; Guillaume dAuvergne , Bishop of Paris ; and the Inquisitor Henri de Cologne . After the same rabbis had been heard a second time , the Talmud was condemned to be burned . Two years after ( in the middle of 1242 ) twenty-four cartloads of Hebrew books were burned at Paris . [ ... ] A little later , while at Lyons , the pope listened to the complaints of the Jews , and in 1247 he asked Eudes de Chateauroux to examine the Talmud from the Jewish standpoint , and to ascertain whether it might not be tolerated as harmless to the Christian faith , and whether the copies which had been confiscated might not be returned to their owners . The rabbis had represented to him that without the aid of the Talmud they could not understand the Bible or the rest of their statutes . Eudes informed the pope that the change of attitude involved in such a decision would be wrongly interpreted , and on 15 May 1248 the Talmud was condemned for the second time . A long list of supposed errors and blasphemies contained the Talmud was compiled by Eudes de Chateauroux . He was made cardinal-bishop of Frascati ( 1244 ) . He is given also as bishop of Toulouse and bishop of Maguelonne and legate , and was sent to preach crusade in France by Pope Innocent IV . He accompanied Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade , and is mentioned by Joinville , returning in 1254 , via Cyprus . Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals from December 1254 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church in 1270 . He brought back relics , which he gave to Viterbo , Tournai and Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre , Indre , France . He also consecrated relics in the Sainte-Chapelle . He led the enquiry into the canonization of Richard of Chichester . In 1270 , on the death of Louis IX , he announced official mourning for the whole of Christendom . He died on 25 January 1273 at Orvieto . Works . - Super Psalterium - MLXXVII Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis casibus References . For a list of manuscripts containing Super Psalterium see « Eudes de Châteauroux » in Viller , Marcel . Dictionnaire de spiritualité . Paris : G . Beauchesnes et ses fils , 1937-1995 . 4 , 2 ( 1961 ) : 1675-8 . Further reading . - Letter in August Potthast Regesta Pontificum Romanorum - Iozzelli , F . ( 1989 ) . Il cardinal Odo da Chateauroux e Carlo d Angio , Celestino V e i suoi tempi : realta spirituale e realta politica . Atti del 4° Convegno storico internazionale LAquila , 26-27 agosto 1989 ( ed . W . Capezzali ) ( LAquila 1990 ) . pp . 35–53 . External links . - Biography , under Ottone de Castro Rodolfi