About the end of the 9th century, a redoubtable warrior, Eudes de Fauconnier, desiring to celebrate his part in the expulsion of the Normans from the neighbourhood, erected a new church on the site of the little chapel, or in its immediate neighbourhood. This was dedicated to the two saints, S. Merri being placed before S. Peter. When this church, in its turn, was demolished in the time of François Ier, the remains of the founder were found in a stone coffin, the bones of his legs and feet being still shod in his gilt leathern boots. The coffin was re-buried in the choir, and an inscription placed upon a white marble slab: _Hic jacet vir bonae memoriae Odo Falconarius, huius ecclesiae, ora pro eo._ In the opinion of the abbé Lebeuf, this Odo was the famous warrior who with Godefroi defended the city against the Normans in 886. The surname _Falconarius_ may come from Odo having been made the King's falconer, or from the kind of lance which he used, _falco_, because it was bent; just as Charles, the grandfather of Charlemagne, was known by the surname of Martel. The gilt leather boots denote a personage of the 9th century; similar _chaussures_ may be seen in miniatures of the Carlovingian period. One of the monks of S. Germain des Prés, Abbon, has celebrated the heroic deeds of Odo, and testified to the ability of the surgical instrument makers of the 9th century:-- UNA DIES ISTUM VOLUIT SIC LUDERE LUDUM, HIS DUCIBUS, GODOFREDO NEC NON ET ODONE; BELLIGERI FUERANT UDDONIS CONSULIS AMBO. IDEM ODO PRAETEREA OPPOSUIT SE SAEPUIS ILLIS ET VICIT JUGETER VICTOR. HEN! LIQUER UT ILLUM DEXTRA MANUS BELLO QUONDAM, CUJUS LOCA CINXIT FERREA, PENE VIGORE NIHIL INFIRMIOR IPSA.[104] S. Merri was made into a parish church in the 12th century, and in the early years of the following century it became collegiate. It was called the third daughter of Notre-Dame, a title given to churches which were served by the clergy of the mother church, its chapter consisting of a _chefcier_, who filled the position of the _curé_, six canons, and six chaplains.