Murder of Charles the Good
March 2, 1127
The Count of Flanders, kneeling at Mass in the church of Saint-Donatian in Bruges, was cut down by a cabal of knights whose family he had been investigating for serfdom. The assassination sparked a Flemish civil war and produced one of the twelfth century's most vivid contemporary chronicles, Galbert of Bruges's day-by-day account of the political chaos that engulfed one of Europe's richest trading regions.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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