See also
| Husband: | Odinel II +*of UMFREVILLE (1125-1175) | |
| Wife: | Alice * + of LUCI (1129-1197) | |
| Children: | Margery * + of UMFREVILLE (1156-1208) | |
| Marriage | 1155 | Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, England |
| Name: | Odinel II +*of UMFREVILLE | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Ordinel I * + of UMFREVILLE (1094-1166) | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1125 | Prudhoe, Northumberland, England |
| Death | 1175 (age 49-50) | Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, England |
| Burial | Hexham Priory | |
| Name: | Alice * + of LUCI | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Richard + of LUCY (1089-1179) | |
| Mother: | Rohese + FITZRICHARD (1090-1179) | |
| Birth | 1129 | Luce, Orne, Low Normandy, France |
| Death | 1197 (age 67-68) | Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, England |
| Name: | Margery * + of UMFREVILLE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | John of MERLAY (1155- ) | |
| Spouse 2: | William III +* of AUBIGNY (1165-1221) | |
| Birth | 1156 | Prudhoe, Northumberland, England |
| Death | 1208 (age 51-52) | Belvoir , Leicestershire, England |
Odinel seems to have succeeded his father Odinel I sometime between 1162-1166 as in 1166 he appears in a document assessing his for in Northumberland, he appears again in 1171. In 1173 he had a grant of £20 out of the rental of the mines of Carlisle to retain Knights at Prudhoe on account of Scots raiding [Wallace laid seige in this year]. It is as well he was granted this income for in 1174 Harbottle Castle was taken and Prudhoe was again put under seige. Wallace seems to have taken a dislike to Odinel "Thus said King William: Then may I be accursed Excommunicated by priest, put to shame and discomfited. If I give the castle of Odinel a fixed time or respite. But I will cause him wholly to his joy and delight" Odinel escaped however. He was present at Alnwick when William the Lion was defeated and captured. Odinel was given £17 10s out of the booty stolen from him by William. Odinel was also granted Elton in Yorkshire for life as well as forfeited lands of Thomas Muscamp the Baron of Wooler.
After the defeat of the Wallace, Odinel made several alterations to the castle including a new gatehouse. The mound was levelled and a new stone keep was erected which after Norham is the oldest stone keep in Northumberland. Part of the curtain wall was rebuilt in stone. An interesting story relates to this rebuilding work... "All his neighbours, the legend runs, had, either from love or fear, given him assisstance in the work, except the men of Wylam, a possession of the monastery of St Oswin of Tynemouth, which had been freed from all contributions to castle building by several royal charters. Neither the threats nor the persuasions of the king's officers had any effect. Odinel was so enraged that he sent for one of them who lived, without the fear of God, in the city of Corbridge, and bade him seize the property of the Wylam peasants and bring it to the castle. This man took with him two officers names Richard and Nicholas, and proceeded at once to Wylam.
According to the English law that had then been long established, a fine for neglecting to perform a customary duty like that of repairing a castle was first to be levied on the private property of the serfs, and only in the case of this proving insufficient was recourse to be had to the lord's demesne. The Corbridge official, however, announced his intention of laying hands on whatever first came his way, and it was in vain that his companions cautioned him not to interfere with the head of St Oswin. They came to the pasture where the demesne oxen were grazing, but these, together with the ruddy youth and his barking dog who were looking after them, were by the power of St. Oswin made miraculously invisible and inaudible to the wicked distrainer". The St 'Oswin' is of course the former King of Northumbria, Oswiu, whose numerous body parts were attributed to have miraculous powers although in the case suspect either bribery or the alehouse to be the more rational explanation. Odinel you will note selects a man who was 'without fear of God' to perform the irksome task of taking monastic property while his two companioins implore him not to risk the wrath of the holy relic, St Oswin's head.
Despite Odinel's landholdings his debts on his death were very substantial because of the rebuilding, so much so that some were still unpaid on the death of his son Robert in 1195. Odinel is apparently buried at Hexham Priory.
Odinel II had a daughter called Margery who married William d'Albini the lord of Belvoir castle. Margery is buried at Belvior, Priory. Odinel also was father to Robert, William, Alice, Richard, Gilbert, Odinel, and Emma Countess Bolam. Emma married Walter de Bolam in 1197 and then Peter de Vaux in 1208.