Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Odo Cantianus

by John Hutchinson

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Odo Cantianus,

This learned Benedictine, it may be presumed from his title, was a native of Kent. His learning and eloquence raised him to be Prior and Abbot, first of St. Saviour's, Canterbury, 1172, and afterwards of Battle Abbey, 1175. He died in 1200. He was the author of several treatises, chiefly commentaries on the Holy Scriptures. He was a friend of Thomas k Becket and of John of Salisbury, who has left a panegyric of him.

[See "Leland's De Scriptoribus Britannicis," and "Tanner's Bibliotheca."]