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1084 – 1127Charles the Good, Count of Flanders (1084-1127)Died 2 March 1127, aged 43Charles 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.
1127Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of FlandersMurdered at prayer in Bruges by a conspiracy of the Erembald familyCount 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.