Timeline March 1127

Events in March 1127 3

• 1084 – 1127 Charles the Good, Count of Flanders (1084-1127) Died 2 March 1127, aged 43 Charles I, Count of Flanders, was renowned for his piety and for championing the poor during the famine of 1125, earning the epithet "the Good". He was murdered by conspirators from the Erembald family while praying in the Church of St Donatian in Bruges, provoking a succession crisis in the county.
• 1127 William Clito installed as Count of Flanders King Louis VI of France backs a new count after Charles the Good's murder Following the assassination of Charles the Good, King Louis VI of France intervened in Flanders and secured the election of William Clito, son of the deposed Duke Robert Curthose of Normandy, as the new count. The choice was contested by rival claimant Thierry of Alsace and several Flemish towns, setting off a civil war that continued into 1128.
• 1127 Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders Murdered at prayer in Bruges by a conspiracy of the Erembald family Count Charles I of Flanders was attacked and killed by knights of the Erembald clan while kneeling in prayer at the Church of St Donatian in Bruges on 2 March 1127. The killers feared he intended to expose their servile ancestry and strip them of office. His murder, chronicled in detail by Galbert of Bruges, triggered a succession crisis and civil war in Flanders.