>
>
> > CHARLES THE GOOD, martyr, Count of Flanders, A.D. 1127.
> Assassinated
> > by two brothers from whom he had made compulsory purchase of grain
> to
> > relieve the poor.
>
>
> seems like there was just a *bit* more involved in that story, at
> least
> according to Galbert's account.
>
> what is this, politically correct, selective hagiography?
Charles the Bad, of course, did not make it into the martyrologies.
Oriens.
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