odda perhaps first appears in the record as a charter witness in 1013 or 1014, late in the reign of king æthelred the unready, from which evidence it is presumed he was born no later than 993. his brother ælfric, commemorated in the dedication of odda's chapel at deerhurst, died on 22 december 1053. their sister, named ealdgyth, appears in domesday book. she may have outlived her brothers and perhaps was still living after the norman conquest.